Questions tagged [black-screen-of-death]

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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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 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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Windows 8 Black Screen with white cursor after login on HP laptop

I have an HP laptop running Windows 8 that after boot and login goes to a black screen with the white mouse pointer. The task manager is accessible via CTRL ALT DEL Thus the PC seems to be working ...
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Windows 7 Black Screen with cursor after boot, Explorer.exe doesn't start

A friend handed me an Acer Aspire one D270 running windows 7 which boots as normal and I assume logs in since there was no password, but then displays a black screen with the cursor. I cannot do a ...
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Acer Aspire runs slow, black screens after logging in

I have and Acer Aspire laptop that's about 3-4 months old that is now running super slow. I takes five minutes to get to the login page and after logging in, it freezes right after saying welcome. ...
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Windows 10 Remote Desktop Connects with Black Screen then Disconnects

I've been having this issue since I updated (fresh install) to Windows 10 Professional. I used to connect to my computer via RDP through WAN and LAN with no issues. After installing W10 and setting ...
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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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Black Screen after booting Kali Linux after installation

So here I'm after I was so excited to try the new Kali Linux operating system. I've tried to install it with a dual boot with Windows 10 with creating a new partition for the new system. And I guess I ...
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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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How do I stop mapped network drives which aren't available preventing Windows 7 64-bit booting past KSOD?

I have a QNAP server on my home network which I've mapped a few folders in Windows-7x64 using NFS. This works perfectly except for when I switch the server off (or disconnect it from the network). ...
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Windows 7 hangs on black screen for a while after log in

I have observed the following. I get the welcome screen. I click on my user and get the "logging on" screen. After that all I get is a black screen with a mouse cursor. I can't even start Task ...
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Acer Aspire E1-570 Black Screen, Faulty Bios?

Good morning everyone. I am having a bad time trying to fix my laptop Acer Aspire E1-570. I have a black screen of death, when I press the power button the fans start spinning for a second and then ...
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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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How do I make Windows 7 boot further than a blank screen with only a mouse cursor?

My Windows 7 machine was powered down without logging out first. Now, when booting the PC Windows 7 does not completely start. Instead, it boots to a completely black screen with a mouse cursor that ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Vista Black Screen of Death (KSOD)

I have a Vista system exhibiting the black screen of death. After boot, I receive a black screen with a white cursor that moves but no other activity. Here are the things I've done already to ...
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WIndows starts with Black Screen and Cursor

A friend has an old Windows 7 Laptop that starts up, shows the welcome screen as the default user is logged in, then everything disappears and they're left with a black screen with a cursor, and that'...
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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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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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Desktop PC boots to black screen after ASUS BIOS update

I tried to update my ASUS motherboard's BIOS just now, but after the installation reached 100% on the update screen, the PC restarted and then simply hung indefinitely on a black screen with no ...
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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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Acer Aspire E5-571G shows black screen after Acer logo

I have been on windows 10 for 10 months now. Yesterday, i turned my laptop off and back on, it showed the Acer logo then entered a black screen with just the mouse cursor. I attempted to go into safe ...
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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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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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Windows 8.1 Display Driver Gone? Black Screen on Boot and Safe Mode

I've got some really weird problems with my computer. It's the Asus G750JX Notebook. To clarify; I've got one 256 GB SSD(Windows is on a 90GB partition) and a 1TB HDD(which I installed by myself). ...
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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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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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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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Black screen with cursor after login

This question has been asked before, but none of the answers worked for me. Details After about 5 minutes and 41 seconds (yes, I timed it), my desktop shows up as normal. It only happens on one ...
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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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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 ...