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Ron
June 18th 04, 08:35 PM
when I start pc when the me logo appears the screen goes
black. I can still navigate as ctl/alt/del reboots. any
help, please?

Mart
June 18th 04, 11:30 PM
Try booting into Safe Mode (Ctrl of F8 keys on bootup) and see if your
screen shows.

If so, run System Restore and roll-back to last time your PC worked OK

Mart


"Ron" > wrote in message
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> when I start pc when the me logo appears the screen goes
> black. I can still navigate as ctl/alt/del reboots. any
> help, please?

June 21st 04, 07:01 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>when I start pc when the me logo appears the screen goes
>black. I can still navigate as ctl/alt/del reboots. any
>help, please?
>.
>Ok, I have a question for you: How long does the screen
stay black??? Because my computer does the same thing for
about 5 min then it goes to the desktop.

Noel Paton
June 21st 04, 08:43 PM
If it takes that long to boot, then you either have a VERY slow system, or
you have too much loading at boot.
look here for instructions on how to clean up your startup axis, preventing
unnecessary programs loading
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php

You may have a virus/spyware hijack

download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling
viruses are not present on your PC
http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/stinger.exe

- update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files.

Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the
CoolWebSearch hijacker.
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html

Use CWShredder, the removal tool:
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/CWShredder.exe
http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip

download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to
remove spyware, adware,
and other such nasties from your system.


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
or
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/Mar01/Mar27pmvp.asp

> wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >when I start pc when the me logo appears the screen goes
> >black. I can still navigate as ctl/alt/del reboots. any
> >help, please?
> >.
> >Ok, I have a question for you: How long does the screen
> stay black??? Because my computer does the same thing for
> about 5 min then it goes to the desktop.