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I only see black screen after the startup. It just shows the logo and the status bar upon start, then it goes black screen with moveable cursor. I tried alt+ctrl+del, but it doesn't work. I pressed shift 5 times and it makes a sound. I already removed battery and restarted it, but still the same. I can go to safe mode and scanned thru there. Still, desktop won't show up.

Don't know what else to check?

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Is this a new installation of windows, or has it developed this problem? – RJFalconer May 16 '10 at 10:13
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One common cause of this issue is a driver issue with resolutions higher than the base 640x480 you get in safe mode. This could be either video driver or LCD driver or both. One thing you can try that worked on my HP laptop with the same problem is to close and re-open the lid. On my HP this cycled the LCD screen off and back on and this would usually get it to work. I eventually found that Vista (and later Win7) had misidentified my video card and installed the wrong driver during installation. Once I had manually installed the correct driver, it never happened again.

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