When XP loads, I see XP screen, then black

**radiorhea** · October 9th, 2005, 08:10 PM

When i turn on my computer the XP load screen comes up then black, nothing at first I heard all of the sounds, but I went in to the motherboard bios and tried to change to boot clean, but nothing after that.

Any help?
RadioRhea

**TechZ** · October 10th, 2005, 03:26 AM

Welcome to the forums

What did you do before this problem started? Were you updating drivers, removing some application?

Can you boot to safe mode?

And what do you mean:

I went in to the motherboard bios and tried to change to boot clean, but nothing after that.

**radiorhea** · October 10th, 2005, 09:28 AM

I had a virus and had to reload XP. I thought that I got all of the drivers for the video card. I run Battlefield 2, so I was trying to get everything set back up. I cleared the CMOS, restarted and got it to come up. Checked email, shut it down for the night, and this morning the same thing. I went to check on driver updates in the hardware manager, it said the video card had not started????? I was getting video though, The video card is an ATI 9800 pro. It could be time for a new card. What are your thoughts
RadioRhea

**NooNoo** · October 10th, 2005, 10:17 AM

Test it in another machine.... did you load the chipset drivers for the motherboard before the video drivers?

**confus-ed** · October 11th, 2005, 06:32 AM

Originally Posted by TechZ

Can you boot to safe mode?

Since most confusingly 'safe mode' in xp uses the same installed video drivers, as in 'normal mode', a better question for anything video related is probably 'will it start in VGA mode' ?

had a virus and had to reload XP. I thought that I got all of the drivers for the video card

So what's a 'reload' ? Is that a fresh shiny install after format & fdisk, or is that re-installing windoze over the top of itself ? If its the second, I'd be uninstalling all video related drivers & trying again ..

**radiorhea** · October 11th, 2005, 09:56 PM

Fresh shiney as a baby's butt install after F&F. When I turn on my computer, I see the motherboard screen, then XP screen, then black........... Thanks, RadioRhea

**confus-ed** · October 12th, 2005, 08:40 AM

I'm still not clear exactly just what happened, so having done a format etc , did xp setup show any problems ?

(I'm trying to figure out if this problem happens after you've added some additional drivers {from ati} or whether windoze setup is going amiss, though I'm not certain xp setup knows what a 9800 card is, so I guess it might finnish setup thinking its just 'standard vga')