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Vista Black Screen and Cursor nothing else

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#1 ·
I've been handed a Vista machine that will boot windows, but it only gets to a black screen where the cursor has loaded.

I am able to move the cursor around the black screen.

Nothing else happens. CTRL+ALT+DEL does nothing. Nothing will load.

I cannot get into safe mode, it gets to the same point.

Loading last known good settings does nothing either.

I can load the hard drive as a slave on another computer.

I can't seem to do much with it.

Any ideas?
 
#2 ·
Safe mode with command prompt, same nothing? Sometimes you'll get a quick prompt asking if you want to skip loading a certain driver or sys file by pressing Esc. If you can get there run system restore (http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/6b969e00-d4ec-4d3a-bffe-b96107e3bda91033.mspx).

Otherwise you'll need a Vista disc to boot to and try running the startup repair. Maybe reset the BIOS after noting the non-default settings, especially for the HD controller, if any pertain.

Otherwise you're probably headed for a reinstall (at least I would be).
 
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Safe mode (with command prompt) does the same thing.

I also have a copy of MSDART, but I'm not getting very far with that at the moment.

I've reset the BIOS, no such luck. It doesn't seem like that kind of problem, more of a windows issue.

Obviously, I'd rather avoid a reinstall. I see no reason why this can't be recoverable, I suspect it's just an issue at boot time which needs to be identified.
 
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