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The Black Screen of Death (or KSOD) is when Windows Vista or above loads only a black screen and your mouse cursor.

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Black screen and airplane mode on a ASUS TUF FX504 laptop with a replaced screen

Namely, when I press the button to turn it on, the LED on the keyboard lights up, the screen turns from some shade of dark green to black, the cpu and gpu slowly start to heat up. The fans turn on and ...
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Lenovo IdeaPad 5 turns on but black screen

This happened after a BIOS update. Lenovo IdeaPad 5 turns on but black screen. Eventually I hear the fan but nothing on screen. The machine is running Windows 10. I have done a battery drain, I have ...
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Commands to bring back the default permissions

My computer: Dell vostro 3591 Wiindows 10 22h2 19045.3324 Hello so i would like to know if there is a command to bring back the default windows , program files, program files x86 permissions. I sadly ...
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Blackscreen with GPU fans at max speed

Sympton: During some games, after 2-20 Minutes a black screen appears CS2, CS:GO, Anno 1800 suffer from blackscreen Did not get a single black screen playing hours of COD Sound is still playing in ...
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Laptop black screen after Windows update

My Windows 10 laptop just had a windows update, during the update it got stuck on a black screen. What I've tried Wait for several hours Hold the power button to see if restarting would help, only ...
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Startup Issue on HP ENVY x360 Convertible 15 ed1xxx - No Display

I'm encountering a problem with my HP ENVY x360 Convertible 15 laptop (model ed1xxx). Upon attempting to power it on, there is no display visible, and even the HP logo doesn't appear. I've done some ...
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Need better fix for black screen after signing in to Windows

Issue started 2 days ago (8/11/23). I have Windows 10 and there was Windows Update installations recently (8/8/23) which I think might have caused the issue. After logging in with my password at the ...
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Black screen of death after Windows 10 reinstallation

So I just reinstalled Windows 10 using the 22h2 media installation creator downloaded from Microsoft. I've used this same download to reset windows before. The machine is a ThinkCentre M82 and it had ...
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Laptop Broken black screen

After booting, my laptop is stuck on a black screen with a flickering circle and cursor. I have tried everything, including reinstalling Windows using a USB, but I cannot use a single key. Can anyone ...
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Asus laptop powers on but has blackscreen with not even Asus logo popping up

My laptop is an ASUS Rog Strix. So yesterday I turned on my laptop, and the Asus logo popped on with its sound, but then it turned itself off. I turned it on again because I was sure that I had ...
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PC randomly boots with a black screen

My PC randomly boots into a black screen. I hear the windows startup sound, but I dont see anything - the monitor is turned on and it seems it receives a signal, just a black signal (i.e. monitor is ...
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Second screen working but doesn't display anything

thanks for passing by I've ran into an issue lately ; I have a PC with two screens, one being HDMI plugged to the GPU (GTX 2080 Ti) and the other connected to the MoBo's HDMI port : Intel UHD Graphics ...
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Black screen of death after trying a previous restore. I can only open bios. WRE-no load

I have tried for 3 days of all and every possible way to fix. I am getting the black screen of death after trying a previous restore. I can only open bios. WRE-not loading. Tried USB boot, nothing. ...
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Laptop screen is not switching on after running SQL code

I was trying to run an SQL code on Visual StudioCode when the screen suddenly froze. Soon it started turning red from the borders (see attached pic). Soon it began spreading throughout the whole ...
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Black desktop after login for specific user

After I am logging in with specific user into Windows 10, I am getting black screen. I can see mouse pointer. I can logout, reboot etc and invoke Task Manager with Ctrl-Alt-Del. I can't run any ...
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Black Screen After A Reboot

Info After a normal Windows 10 reboot, nothing appeared on the screen. I had the problem for quite some time but usually after unplugging and replugging the PC the screen would work and everything was ...
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BIOS gone wrong after update. Dead PC? Black screen

I did a normal BIOS update. It completed successfully. But then the normal restart after BIOS installation never happened the PC went into a black screen. How can I fix this? BIOS Version: 3211 2021/...
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Windows Black Animations on Second Monitor

I've recently added a second monitor to my Windows 10 PC, and since day one many desktop animations and previews are black. To list some: Window switch to maximize/windowed mode animation Window ...
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HP ProBook 440 G4 laptop black screen when SSD is attached

So I'm trying to install windows on my WD PC SN520 SSD . However when I try to boot the laptop with the SSD attached , the fans start spinning but it's just a black screen.Not even the bios shows up. ...
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After removing dual boot, Windows 10 didn't boot. It shows me only a black screen and cursor after Windows logo. How do I fix it?

I had Windows 11 as bootable next to Windows 10 but when I removed the 11's partition and rebuilt BCD and MBR for 10's partition, It didn't boot. It shows me only a black screen and cursor after ...
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Windows 10 - RDP Black screen if user is not logged on prior to connecting

Good afternoon guys, I have had this black screen while remoting into PCs in my domain before. Its always been fixed by waiting a few minutes or rebooting all involved machines. This one case is just ...
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ASUS screen goes half black when is charging

When I charge my laptop, bottom screen goes half black enter image description here
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graphic card crashes (black screen) after few minutes if i install a gpu driver

I can't find a fix for this problem anywhere. I'll try to explain everything thoroughly Three weeks ago I installed Warzone and tested different versions of AMD drivers. In the latest compatible ...
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Windows 10 ~ Blackscreen on Login ~ Cannot Access ExplorerFrame.dll

Occasionally, when I log in to Windows, I get a blackscreen. I then have to use [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Del] to bring up the cut-screen and log out and log in again to get Windows to work properly. In the Event ...
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Black screen freezing in Macbook EFI Boot

I had Ubuntu on my external hard drive, I had to delete it because i ruined it, after that I reinstalled it and now when I try to boot into my SEAGATE ubuntu hard drive it stuck on a black screen. I ...
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Kali linux -- unmet dependencies / broken system

I recently really screwed up my Kali VM. There was a package I installed by accident ("fontconfig"). I didn't know what it was or why it took so long to install. I tried to purge it and ...
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Windows 10 ~ Irregular Partial Blackscreen on Login

The following has happened to be almost a dozen times in the last few months: After starting the computer, the login screen appeared as normally, and I was able to login. However, after the login, the ...
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Windows 10 logging in to black screen

A few days back, my laptop started doing something weird on (some) restarts. The laptop seems to turn on properly, I am able to log in using my username and pin, but when it logs in, all I see is a ...
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How to choose “safeboot" and minimal from System Config msconfig when only using keyboard

Im on windows 10 and i messed up in my resolution refresh rate, now my monitor has no display after doing some ways to go to safe mode to fix it but never boot in safe mode i guess the system ...
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Dist-upgrade command leads to black screen

I ran sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y on kali linux Then I cannot even login in my machine. There is a black screen with blinking cursor. How do I solve this thing? I don't want to install My Kali Linux ...
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RX 580. Bad performance with Crash underload

I built my very first PC about two weeks ago. I went with a cheap PC (less than 500) so I can learn, mess with it, overclock cpu, gpu, memory etc.. without any worries. On paper, This system should ...
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Ubuntu Mate freezes after user login

System: Ubuntu Mate Ubuntu 20.04 with Linux 5.4.0-42-generic I have also tried changing the Kernel version to Linux 5.4.0.40-generic, but the symptoms persist. After rebooting my laptop, I attempted ...
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Computer black screens after a while, no internet connection, no display, but still running?

I run a minecraft server on my spare PC, and it's recently been doing this thing where, after a while, it would kick everyone out of the game, shows up as offline in teamviewer, plugging a monitor ...
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GPU causing black screen

I bought a used Radeon RX 470 GPU from China. Sometimes it works great but usually, at seemingly random moments, the screen will go black, the computer continues running. I have windows 10 pro ...
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Black screen with colored dots when trying to boot from USB using rufus GPT partition on my laptop eMMC

As I mentioned in the title, I'm trying to install Windows 10 on my Dell Inspirion 14 which only has a 32Gb eMMC (no HDD). I have been reading a lot of articles saying that I should run Rufus with ...
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Black Screen after Windows Update! (Windows 8.1 Laptop)

So, last night before I went to sleep, there was a Windows Update on my laptop (my laptop is Windows 8.1). The update was pretty big as it said there were 128 updates for my laptop. After the ...
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PC randomly freezing then going black before rebooting

I got my prebuilt pc (after having carefully chosen the specs) around June last year and a few weeks in I started getting random black screens with audio etc still playing in the background. I talked ...
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Trouble Booting Windows. Black screen, even from boot disk

I have an HP Pavilion 690-0067c and there is a problem when trying to boot Windows 10. When starting up normally, it says “Preparing Automatic Repair” for a moment, and then the screen goes black and ...
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Black screen on admin login in windows 10

I have four accounts on my computer, two for guests, one is for a family member and one is admin's. On login to the admin account, the windows screen goes black with a working cursor, while on the ...
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MacBook Air Early 2015 Black Screen Repeated Chime, boot key combo does not work, Can this MacBook be recovered?

First of all, sorry for my bad English. So, my MacBook Air A1465 suddenly fell into a deep 'coma.' Now, the MacBook cannot be turned on. It's just a blank black screen with a repeating chime. I did ...
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Screen goes black after a few hours, followed by 5 beeps at reboot

My specs: Asrock X570 pro4 motherboard. BIOS 1.72 untouched since November 2019, all was very stable until now. Ryzen 3600 with tower cooler 2x8GB RAM HyperX PC3200 (compatible with my motherboard on ...
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Win8.1: Safe Mode frequently breaks with empty black screen

I’ve had this problem for years: Every now and then, Safe Mode “breaks” and booting into it gives a blank black screen: no logon screen, no desktop icons, nothing. The mouse becomes visible when I ...
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Black screen after bios, safe mode works fine

Ryzen 7 3800X MSI mpg x570 gaming edge WiFi Nvidia rtx 2080 Corsair vengeance RGB pro 32gb 3600mhz Sabrent rocket 1tb m.2 Samsung 860 Evo 1tb Rm 850x Asus rog strix XG32V This is a new build and my ...
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Laptop doesn't boot after authorizing a new key in secure boot

I have an ASUS ROG Strix laptop with double boot (Windows 10 and Ubuntu 19.10) on it. After updating Ubuntu, secure boot started complaining about unauthorized software, so I tried to manually ...
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Windows 10 Black Screen after killing Explorer.exe [closed]

I want to run an application without explorer.exe running in Windows10. But when I kill the Explorer.exe I get a black screen. Is there any way to have a background image instead of that black screen....
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Why does my screen go black after installing GPU drivers?

I have an HP Compaq d5700 running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit. It's plugged into my TV and serves as our media center. Recently, the built-in VGA display failed. Since I had no other compatible ...
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Acer Aspire Laptop E5-475-37MN where to find bios utility files to flash bios

When I turn on my laptop the only thing that works properly are the LED lights and the fan, it displays a black screen. I was thinking of flashing the bios using a usb drive with BIOS update utility ...
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Screen stays black after memory upgrade?

I have 4GB memory from my HP Folio 13 1020us, labelled: 4GB 2Rx8 PC3-12800S-11-11-F3 I want to use it to replace the memory in my ACER E1-510. It's current memory is labelled: 2GB 1Rx8 PC3L-...
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Fresh ubuntu system, after login black screen flashing

I wanted to change my Windows 10 for ubuntu. I have deleted whole windows. After instalation I was told to reboot my computer, so I did it. My login screen is black, when I write correct password ...
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Login stuck on black screen with cursor after enabling Hyper-V hypervisor

strange one. I enabled the Hyper-V feature on my works Win10 1803 Lenovo T450 (8GB RAM) laptop. Tried to create the first Windows Server VM but got the error: "...hyperpvisor is not running" ...
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