Computer virus black screen vista

This may not be repairable by a user and the help of a real computer shop not leeks and peeks at a BestBuy or other BigBox Stores or HP's Support is required. I have an HP pavillion dv laptop, it came with windows vista so I don't have a startup disc. When I try to boot it it will say "windows is loading files. I haven't recently installed any updates and I can't access safe mode or system restore.

This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. I would try that first. This way you will not have to install everything again.

Which Windows do you have? Hi i have a probelm with my computer its a desktop a older computer i had a loe memory hard drive in it then i wanted to put a highier one in but when i did i got black screen but after that happened i tried to put my other hard drive back in and i still have black screen when i start my system it will start fine tge fans will kick on uy will soud like iylts running fine but my monitier sys that there is nothing to be shown im puzzled cause im nit sure what i did.

Can you help me? Does this mean it is showing you a message or is there nothing there at all? Hey there. I was just using my computer when a messege came up saying I had a severe virus. It told me to restart my computer which I did but now it simply is a black screen with a flashing Horizontal line in the top left.

I have tried un plugging and restarting several times but nothing works. Please may I have some advise on the situation? I think maybe you are right about it not being able to handle the size, I am seriously considering just buying a new computer. Do you know how I could check if my PSU and graphics card are compatible with a new computer?

I went through and i still cant figure out whats wrong with my pc. My problems started a week ago, windows got stuck while its loading and after restarting several time with the same problem i went to system recovery through the first blue screen and everything was fine. Gogetassj Does your card meet what the games needs or is your power supply rated to handle the Vid card at max draw?

Is there a fan on your graphics card and is it working? I put both the graphics card and power supply into my computer, only to find that the grpahics card was not compatible even though it fit into my PCI-e slot. I removed it and tried again now the only change was the PSU.

To my relief it started, but I did not have the monitor plugged in, so I could not see if the screen was working there was also a very high pitched squeal, that only happened this time i booted. I then proceeded to plug everything back in and run the system repair function the computer gave me the option to run.

In a little while when I came back, my screen was black. I attempted to turn it on again, but it would not work. I removed the PSU and tried the old one, but to my dismay, now the fans would not even work and the black screen is still present. Hi Diego Was the cpu compatible with your motherboard.

Could it handle the size? Also did you try the old power supply again or is that dead? I have a Dell Inspiron with Vista.

I turned it on the fan is blowing all the lights are on but the screen is black. Any suggestions? Can anyone help me please.. Hey there! Thanks for this great advice! My screen was completely black with no beeping sounds so it was pretty tough to figure out the problem.

Thanks again! I take all of my photos off and store them on an external hard drive. Recently while I am working on a photo my screen will go black but my computer stills appears to be running. I sometimes hold the button and restart the computer and everything will work fine.

Sometimes I have to take the battery out and restart it that way for it to work. Have you had any experience with anything like this? Thank you for your time. It sounds like the game has changed your video resolution. I hope.. Hi Mitz- No I cannot get into safe mode. I think you are right on about the overheating does this mean it may have fried my laptop? Is there an external component that can be replaced that would help or fix it?!

Thanks so much for your help. If it was a desktop I would say to blow the dust from the inside so the computer could breathe.

But it sounds worse now. I get to a blank black screen, and it says. Or is there another way to fix it. If you can get to the boot menu and get into safe mode…this will load without drivers.. Hi Mitz, I have a Dell desk top when I turn it on there is nothing but a black screen and cursor and it had a popup saying something about antivirus 8 but now even that is gone. I dont even see my start button to do a system repair or get on any sites.

What should I do? So your saying that the computer is loading past the splash screen. Hello, I have a dell inspiron I was using it the other day and it was working fine. When my boyfriend was using it that night the screen just went blank on him. He turned it off and was able to get it back on, used it for a couple of minutes then the same thing happened. The power light will go on and you hear the fan also, but again nothing.

I am not even able to open the disk to put anything in there. When I pust the button nothing happens?! Do you have any suggestions? Thank you very much. Hi Michelle From what you say it sounds like an overheating problem and now it seems there is not enough power. Can you get into safe mode? I have two hard drives in it. I disconnected the slave drive and there is no hard drive noise whatsoever on boot up.

Main hard drive failure? Hi Martin So the computer was fine until you moved it into another room.. But it still worked in the new room and now has failed? Did you change monitors? I know you checked it, but is it the same one? Do you have a video card or onboard? What do you mean by BD? It has an AMD G chipset and earlier this year i upgraded to windows 7. Up to this point all was well. I moved the machine two days ago from one room to another.

Last night whilst ripping a BD i left the room and came back to check progress only to find that the screen was showing the very first boot display but was frozen. I turned off and it took a few attempts but it did come back on. It ripped the BD sucessfully and i tried another BD only for same thing to happen. It was late so turned off and tried again tonight but nothing.

On turning on the fan cranks up, there is a bit of noise from hard drive but not much. No beeps and the screen is blank. The monitor actaully stays on stand by. Ive reseated ram, removed ram sticks one at a time, checked sata cables but nothing. Hey, i have slight problem. I recently was working on my computer, and took the cpu out. I plugged everything in as they should go, and took my computer back to my room and plugged it in.

I would say the cpu. Have another look at it…But the pins can only be bent so many times, maybe one is damaged now even though it is straight. Is there any way I can get the data off myself? Laptop is 2yrs old and ready for a new one but I need the data. I managed to get laptop to a dos prompt and attempted to copy files to a usb key — unsuccessful. Any suggestions would be appreciated. PS: i have also tryed reseating the cpu, but nothing has happened.

I think this has something to do with voltage but it could apply to anything. At first when the computer was getting to the splash screen and then restarting I would have said to check the ram. Remove one piece or try to make sure it is in properly. And next probably a repair disc as it seems that it was trying to load… Now that is has a black screen it sounds like something else is going on…at this stage I would hope its something to do with the power supply not putting out enough power.

Computer is 6 months old Gateway This passed week it just randomly shuts itself off. When I try to reboot it takes tries to get it to boot up, otherwise it sits at a black screen and does nothing at all. The fans are running the lights are on but the screen is black. I checked most of your suggestions except for the acquiring of a new video card. Why is it preventing the computer from going through the boot up process?

Hi, I was just on my laptop ASUS with Vista and on Facebook and ordering from an internet site when the anti virus Comodo came up with a buffer under run attack and also virus warnings of intercepted. I blocked these and then the screen went black with a cursor in the top left corner.

Do you have any suggestions as to what has happened or how to fix this problem please? Hi Claire Have you restarted your computer? Is that when it is a black screen with a cursor? I would put your operating system cd in and do a repair. You can see the details above.. Which Operating system do you have? Hi sez A common thing with laptop screens is that they pack up before everything else. They are the number one part that is replaced on a laptop.

The first question is …Is it compatible? The next one is, do you have to enable something in the bios…like auto detect before changing it.. Can you test it in another computer? Also make sure it is in the right way…Something may have changed. Check the pins. If all else fails I would take it back.. Maybe the place you bought it from can test it…? Have you tried putting the operating system cd in and doing a repair?

Can you get into your bios? When i on my computer the cpu fan is running everything is going fine but no display is comming in the monitor the orange light is on thats all its the screen is black no keyboard or mouse is working. Also with 1 dash on the screen. Beside keyboard quickly disconnect as well. Plug your monitor in the correct plug. Another thing you could try is going into safe mode and removing the drivers from the device manager.

If your computer is working correctly try going into safe made and removing the drivers of the old video card first…Sound like there is a clash.. Then shut down, install the new video card, and start…. Hi My dell laptop running Vista will not boot up. Yesterday it said that it needed to run repairs, this happened for some time with a couple of restarts. After leaving it for several hours it was showing a black screen with only the cursor visible.

Today it starts and runs the warning that it did not shut down properly I suppose from me shutting down with the power button. Every option offered ends up with a black screen with the cursor visible.

From here all I can do is turn off from the power button. Thanks for any help that may be forthcoming.

Hi there Benard I would try a repair with the cd you have. Please see this article for instructions. It sounds like it is overheating and then shutting down… It could be dust on the cpu fan…. Hi Mitz, sad to say that my cpu now in computer shop after i realize that i dont have the CD. But thank for the info and the knowledge you share here. I recently updated my PC Windows Update and rebooted. PC froze after successful reboot and now I get a black screen with a cursor.

I can not boot into safe mode either by pressing the F8 key. Last yesterday my sister switch off the pc plug before it shutdown properly and went i open the pc it going black and there was a small line. After that there is instruction of Safe mode,safe mode without networking,start windows normally and etc.

I try other option but still cannot open my pc. So what should i do? I have try to unplug the wire at the back of cpu but still it happen. When you start the computer does it still show the boot options and have you tried to boot into safe mode. If you can get into there fully, and then restart the computer it may fix it sometimes. If you cannot get in anywhere I would put the Windows cd into the cd drive and get it to boot to the cd…Instead of formatting choose the repair option.

I just installed Photoshop Elements 8 on my HP desktop old unit and after restarting as instructed by the wizard the computer screen boots to a black screen with a white cursor only… no beeps no menus just a black screen and white cursor.

I can hear the fan and the CPU still. I have this problem, before this my pc is running fine on 3gb ram, and then 1 day my pc goes black screen i try removing the other 1gb ram now it is running smoothly, but when i try to put the ram back, my pc goes into black screen again, I have tested my other ram on another pc and its working fine, I really want to know whats wrong with my pc if it either processor, motherboard, power supply or maybe my graphic card.

Hi need help So your computer is running well without the extra ram that is causing a problem. Have you tried putting the good piece of ram in the other slot…maybe the slot is faulty…Just remember each time you touch the ram you are risking damage to it if not done carefully.

Also if you could get another stick of ram to test that might help…. If you are happy with how the computer is running without that stick of ram I would leave it alone.

I have a HP dv laptop and I replaced the motherboard that supposedly had a bad motherboard.. The new motherboard lights up and the fan works,but still nothing on the screen.

I tried hooking up an external monitor and still nothing.. I tried the fn F4 and F7 to try and switch to a external monitor and still nothing..

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.. Hi for the last couple of days ive been having trouble with my computer. I was able to restart it press F8 and boot in advanced option menu. I scanned my computer and found a trojan avp Many thanks if you could help. Hi Xave How did you get rid of the trojan? What virus program are you running? It must have damaged the boot sector on your hard drive.

Can you take the hard drive out and format it in an external hard drive…you will lose your files though…. I just lost my nvidia video card. I shut it down and next day it would boot up but the display would not come on just a orange light on it.

I had it checked out and it was the video card. The place the did the work for me gave me a video card the other day and i installed it last night. When i plugged in the monitor into the video card i got nothing on the monitor.

All i got was the card and my computer did find it and told me it was a ATI Radon series. I went to the website and downloaded the drivers for it but i still get nothing. I am using my on board video to get my monitor to work. Now my was a avg card and this is a pci. I am lost on what i can do now. Then restart and plug into the video card? So when you have the black screen if you moved the plugs into the onboard would the screen show up?

The computer still should find it. I mean these operating systems does not loading at all for installation but windows xp atleast let me know to go for installing but again freezing at 34 min. Windows is installing well without any problem and the laptop is working fully with this OS after or before drivers installed.

Also I have disconnected many things such az pci-express card, wifi, dvd rom, webcam cable and microphone to find the faulty part but nothing happend. Therefore mechine does not look working normal after the freezing. Keyboard is in full working order as well. Any idea please let me know.. Mitz, Thank you so much….. Thank you again for the list. Thanks Mitz.

Sometimes my computer has a black screen and will not boot or start up lately. I try your tip for RAM and its working properly now. Now my PC working great again thanks for the tips. I use google a lot and read forums for help then whack myself in the head because i usually know how to solve the problem in the first place. However; I recently gutted my desktop and bought all new hardware for it, and built it up to start a gaming PC. Everything was going fine.

About a few months later whenever I would try to simply hit the power button to start the machine all the LED lights would go on as usual but I would just get a black screen, but I could simply shut the power supply off and on again, and after the 3rd or 4th time it would start. I have never learned anything about troubleshooting a black screen with no code or beeps from the motherboard. I came across your article after wording my problem differently a bunch of times in google, and could not be happier.

You my friend have made me a happy man and for that I thank you, as I now have a place to start troubleshooting my black screen. But there is a huge possibility that I may have damaged my motherboard or CPU permanently because of starting it and shutting it down so many times. Also if you have any advice for me I would appreciate it. Hi Jim nice to have you here… I have had a similar problem. I used to have a computer that sometimes started and sometime did not seemed to start.

I seemed to just think it was the started button as I was kind of not pressing it in properly. If I made sure I pressed the button straight in and not on an angle I could guarantee it would start ok.

I know this sounds just too simple to be true but I swear that was it. Anyway since your computer is not starting at all now and I guess you would have tried most things.. I would take the hard drive out…replace it…format…if you can…and see if the problem remains.

If you get a working computer but the starting problem is still there, then you have a chance to troubleshoot the problem… Computers can do weird things…and get black screens for any reason at all…You should have seen me when I was troubleshooting a black screen and found out after hours of work that it was the keyboard plug with a bent pin.

I just presumed the computer would start up and tell me there was no keyboard present…which it is meant to do…but no…that would be too easy and obvious.

Hi selina I think the first black screen was the warning that there was something wrong. You could try some of the steps mentioned above or take the computer to a pro. Note for everyone: Just remember the safety aspects of opening a computer case.

If you are willing to risk mistakes and not blame yourself then I say go for it…How are you going to learn when you are not game to do anything? If you do not want to know anything about computers and have enough money, take it to a pro…. Hello, I just recently got the black screen, approx 2days from now.

And anyways when I startup everything is normal I see a black screen and little white horizontal lines flicker a bit, but the my cursor is available and I open up Task Manager and I am able to open up Internet, so I am typing this message right now on my Black Screen of Death computer. Hi there Thaddeus I would try this: You can use your Windows discs to possibly fix this. Put your windows XP CD into the cd rom drive. Go to the atart menu.

Choose run. Thats if you have xp…it will scan for errors and restore the right files… Also you could try installing a new driver for your display options… and…. I do not think a system restore will help but a full format will.. After transporting my PC from one place to another, my PC works well for the first few days. No boot screen, no beep sound and blank screen. So I plug in a working hard disk into my PC but it stills come out with blank screen.

No bios, no beep sound. Please help as I am now stuck with a broken PC. I was just playing an RPG game Maplestory in my Dell laptop when all of a sudden various red vertical stripes appeared and froze my screen. After turning it on again, I could barely see the Windows logo as it loaded, then nothing but a black screen. Every time I turn it on again I just see a black screen.

I left the sound on and as it seems, the laptop works because I typed in my password and I heard that Windows account initiating sound and could restart it by using the keyboard.

What do you think the problem is? Thanks in advantage for your help! Hi Enrique It sounds like your display has gone…This would not be a home do it yourself job as it is a delicate job to do.. Do you mean I should replace the ram completely? Sij I would remove one stick and see how it goes…be careful because of static electricity and all that…. See the links above for doing this safely…It will boot up slower with one stick but check it out…It may not boot at all…If not swap the ram and try the other.

My computer seems OK now — strange I know. It seemed to fix itself, albeit with a little help from me too. I tried a boot up cd but nothing happened. What I decided to do is get inside the unit, remove all components and reinstall them. I resolved this problem, but it took a lot of trial and error. Not only did I have to completely reinstall Vista, I had to reformat the hard drive as well before reinstalling or the machine wouldn't boot.

My 2 cents: this issue has more to do with Dell and their lousy recommended drivers. Perhaps Vista could have recognized the incompatible driver before installing SP1 - maybe one day we'll have intellegent operating systems. This helped me! I was unable to see anything after log in no matter what way I tried to boot. Windows reported no restore points and safe mode gave me nothing. Using the sticky key assistant was was my back door into the system and was very close to doing a reinstall.

Turns out I am having event log service problems too. Thanks again kzsmtkts.. This has happened to several client machines that I take care of. HP and Dell. I had to boot with the Vista installation disk and restore to before the last update. Here were the updates that I found on 3 of the systems that I had problems with:. These updates did not cause a reboot but 3 or 4 days later the systems were rebooted and bam black screen with the mouse pointer.

Nothing was changed on the systems and a restore to after the updates were installed did not fix the problem. Why a Defender update would cause this I have no idea but I think the black screen is kind of the catch all for problems with Vista like drivers, updates etc etc.

I think the second issue is covered in some of the knowledgebase articles, and the excellent posts by Ronnie Vernon. The first issue and the one that I'm suffering with seems to be related to device driver conflicts or corruptions. In my case, Vista gets past the boot screen black with rubbish progress bar , a mouse pointer appears, the soothing strings sound, but the Vista globe is conspicuous by its absence.

The Mouse pointer momentarily disappears, then reappears. And stays there. The screen remains resolutely black. No amount of shift key pressing or desperate entreaties to uncle Bill work, just a cold hard power off.

Now, I'm inclined to believe that its a problem with my nvidia graphics card driver, as when I disable the card, Vista works fine, although it looks alll low res and horrible. Uninstalling the card deleting the drivers works too, until Vista re-installs the drivers for the hardware, restarts the comuter to complete the installation I also found some updated drivers which helpfully cause a blue screen of death on booting up - a swift rollback of drivers gets me back to the black screen, silently mocking me I have noticed that if I uninstall the drivers, then boot back in in safe mode, there appear to be some nvidia drivers hanging around in various places.

I feel in my bones that if I can just get rid of these, then Vista will be forced to go and download some shiny new drivers instead of the horrible corrupted things lurking in the recesses of my hard drive. Unfortunately, although having an administrator account, Vista won't allow me to do this:. Does anyone know how I can convince Vista that I am responsible enough to delete whichever files I want, and that, although appreciative at its admittedly somewhat suffocating attempts to save me from myself, I am not only willing, but able to shoulder whatever consequences my actions may cause.

On further reflection, if anyone knows for sure that I'm on the verge of commiting a huge gaffe that will render my telly inoperable forever, then for the love of whatever, stop me and tell me what I should be doing. Well, I too had the same problem. I had been out of town for a few months and I let windows do an update to my system.

It also found a recommended Nvidia driver update. It also updated my wireless card driver. After the update and a reboot I got the black screen and mouse. I looked everywhere and found nothing. I had one trick up my sleeve though. I noticed that when you run safe mode with command prompt the command prompt loads and you are able to run programs out of the windows directory. At the prompt I typed in msconfig and the configuration screen popped up. Under the general tab I unchecked Load startup items and I unchecked load system services.

This makes your boot process as basic as possible. I rebooted and it rebooted itself about 2 more times. On the 3rd reboot I had my nice colorful desktop back but in the most basic mode. When microsoft installed the nvidia drivers again Finally I went back into msconfig and rechecked load startup items and system services.

When I rebooted it worked fine. Let me know if this works for anybody else. Start off by booting up and pressing F8 continuously while booting. From the list of options choose Safe mode with command line. When the machine boots up and you see the black screen and command line, type in msconfig and press enter. The system configuration utility should load.

Under general choose selective startup and uncheck load system services and uncheck load startup items. If you know of any drivers you recently updated you can change the name of the file in the command line as well. Anyway restart. Your computer may reboot a couple of times.

When it finally loads you will be in safe mode but you will have access to your desktop. Go into control panel and choose programs and features. Uninstall any programs that you installed since your last successful reboot. I also uninstalled my NVidia video card drivers. I then pulled up the command prompt type cmd in the search field in the start tab. Type msconfig and choose normal startup. When my machine restarted it reinstalled my Nvidia drivers and everything has been working fine since then.

Goodluck, if you have any other problems just email me at Rccm hotmail. I tried maannny of these suggestions and none of them worked. I sitll haven't fixed the problem BUT Which I then can access from any computer. This is what I did. I right clicked on the file, selected copy. This should be located under Hard disk drives. Then select paste. I tried many many suggestions but none of them worked. Be patient, optimistic, and keep persevering. Hope this helps.

Phpkid: I followed your instruction and didn't work on first time and almost give up. It looked even worse since it gave me blue screen 0x But after then, it boots to windows and everything works fine. Thank your help buddy.

This Worked For Me! Followed instructions per ubman1 and it totally worked. Just so you know my symptoms Amazing that Logs have the ability to crash your system, this was my last resort before a clean install. All the same issues no command prompt, safe mode not working. However I'm using Vista x64 and the fix doesn't seem to work.

Does anyone know if the log structure is different and what the impact would be? Thank you, Josh. Office Office Exchange Server.

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Other info: Mouse moves the pointer, tryed clicking everywhere on screen - nothing Nothing on my keyboard works except the sleep button which does actually send the computer into sleep mode. Thursday, February 7, AM. Hello, I had this problem on the same machine. The first time it happened, I reinstalled vista after much debugging and diagnosing. Then it happened again. This thread is awesome and led me to the event viewer corruption.

That was definitely the problem for me and saved me another reinstall. This also seemed to key into a corrupt event log or possibly a registry corruption. However system restore should have taken care of the registry corruption and probably logon would have failed entirely. It would just hang. I was running with UAC on so maybe that was why? Ok now for the good stuff! So I thought well, the logs are just corrupt, let me clear them out manually. Here's how you can do that: 1 Use the vista DVD to go to the repair mode.

Restart the system and cross fingers. This worked for me. I even set it back to the bad logs and the black screen issue reappeared. Notes: After I was able to log in, I opened up each of the bad logs that were modified recently. They were all able to open. I have yet to try all of them to narrow down which one was the bad one. I hope this saves a few reinstalls or even system restore points for some of you.

Again, this would solve all issues but it worked for me. Tuesday, December 23, AM. Hey there, I had the same thing happen to me, for different reasons, but what is happening is a driver is not loading corrertly. Safe mode should still work. Start your computer in safe mode and try to find the driver in question. For me it was a conflict of Roxio By the way stay far away from roxio as vista doesn't play nice with it and MagicDisk a program that manages virtual disk drives.

While you may not have either program, becuase of that conflict if I were to start windows normally I would end up with nothing but a black screen and a mouse cursor no commands working. To fix I simply removed roxio, which removed the driver that was causing windows to hang while starting up. Also try and undo the update if possible. If you have dell, don't bother calling they will just hold you up on the phone for three hours talking to some fool in India.

Logic and trouble-shooting don't always go hand-in-hand, the two programs of mine where working fine together until I updated my sound card driver of all things. Hope that was helpful. Friday, February 8, PM. Wednesday, April 16, PM. I got the exact same problem, does someone knows what is happening? Monday, April 21, PM. Faced the same problem I managed to get into safe mode and performed system restore which was before the updates and it worked.

Don't know how the pc will work without updates. Same problem here Safe mode doesn't work either. Is this a Vista problem? Seems like its happening a lot. Tuesday, May 6, PM. Does this display the Desktop? If this post answers your question, click the Mark as Answer button at the top of this message so that other members can benefit from the discussion.

Proposed as answer by g. Wednesday, May 7, PM. Terence OK, the next level is to determine what recovery options you have. Place the installation disc in the drive. Restart the system. Choose your language settings, and then click Next. Let us know what you find. Next solution? At the Repair options, select the Command Prompt option. Click OK. Scroll back up and select the EDIT1 branch. Go to File and select Unload Hive.

Reboot normally. Let us know the result. If this post answers your question, click the 'Mark as Answer' button at the top of this message so that other members can benefit from the discussion.

Terence Strange? Hopefully we aren't looking at the problem discussed in the following article. How do I perform an upgrade install? I couldn't find that option on the disk. By the way, thanks for all of the help! Thursday, May 8, PM. Terence You performed it right.

Another scenario that affects a wide range of people is the black screen when playing videos. As we know, many people have the habit of watching videos, and it is a bad experience if the screen suddenly goes black while the video is playing a great clip.

But this can happen when playing videos with VLC or YouTube, so we provide a quick and effective solution for different kinds of video playback black screen problems. Here we have gathered common solutions to fix the black screen of death in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and even XP.

Try them and see which one works out for you. If it is the hardware and driver issues that are causing troubles, then the appropriate fix for the black screen of death is Safe Mode repair. Try the steps below to repair the hardware and driver issues. Step 1: Turn your system on and off three times, and in the third attempt, the system will boot into Diagnostics Mode. As you enter the Diagnostics Mode, select Advanced Options.

Right-click on it and disable the driver. Also, remember to check the Windows Update or the manufacturer's website to get the latest driver.

Restart the system and make sure that the Windows Update is installed properly to resolve the black screen of death. The other reason for the Windows black screen of death could be a faulty power supply. So, you will have to diagnose if the black screen is a PSU issue or not.

Check if there is any misbehaving hardware component. And if every component is fine, then the power supply is most likely the culprit. Hence, the solution would be replacing the power supply entirely.

But before you do this, we suggest that you go through the other fixes first. Another possible cause of the laptop black screen of death is that the system isn't detecting the display. And luckily, there is a straightforward solution for that which is forcing the display to wake up. The simple step you have to follow is:. At last, the major cause of the issue is the faulty Video Card. For Windows 10 black screen of death fix, you will need to reinstall the video card.

The steps are given below to ensure that you don't make any mistakes. There you will see the adapter. Step 2: Right-click on the adapter and choose the "Uninstall Device" option. Wait for the device to uninstall. Step 3: Again, right-click on the device and choose "Scan for hardware changes" so that the driver will appear for reinstallation.

Also, check the latest version of the driver to ensure that it is not outdated.