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Booting Vista Home Premium
On Thursday, December 27, 2012 12:03:11 AM UTC, MLD wrote:
"species8350" wrote in message Hi, I can't boot Vista Home Premium. According to the diagnostics there is no problem. But all I get is a black screen and no messages. When I try to boot into any other mode, for example Safe Mode, I get the same black screen. This machine has only 512MB of RAM, is this the reason Vista will not boot? If not any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. Ps. I have tried using the original installation disk for repairs, but again there appears to be no problem. This may sound stupid--Is your monitor turned on? Is it plugged in and/or connected to a working outlet? Friend called a few days ago with the same problem--black screen---Apparently, while cleaning around the top of the desk, must have Inadvertently pushed the monitor off/on button. MLD The monitor is on. |
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Booting Vista Home Premium
On Thursday, December 27, 2012 8:02:53 PM UTC, Joh. Roest von Klinckerhofen wrote:
"MLD" schreef in bericht ... "species8350" wrote in message news:471c1c1e-ccfe-41b7-8a8a-.. Hi, I can't boot Vista Home Premium. According to the diagnostics there is no problem. But all I get is a black screen and no messages. When I try to boot into any other mode, for example Safe Mode, I get the same black screen. This machine has only 512MB of RAM, is this the reason Vista will not boot? If not any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. Ps. I have tried using the original installation disk for repairs, but again there appears to be no problem. This may sound stupid--Is your monitor turned on? Is it plugged in and/or connected to a working outlet? Friend called a few days ago with the same problem--black screen---Apparently, while cleaning around the top of the desk, must have Inadvertently pushed the monitor off/on button. MLD .....do you have electricity where you live? Yes |
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Booting Vista Home Premium
"Joh. Roest von Klinckerhofen" wrote in message ... "MLD" schreef in bericht ... "species8350" wrote in message ... Hi, I can't boot Vista Home Premium. According to the diagnostics there is no problem. But all I get is a black screen and no messages. When I try to boot into any other mode, for example Safe Mode, I get the same black screen. This machine has only 512MB of RAM, is this the reason Vista will not boot? If not any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. Ps. I have tried using the original installation disk for repairs, but again there appears to be no problem. This may sound stupid--Is your monitor turned on? Is it plugged in and/or connected to a working outlet? Friend called a few days ago with the same problem--black screen---Apparently, while cleaning around the top of the desk, must have Inadvertently pushed the monitor off/on button. MLD .....do you have electricity where you live? Don't leave me hanging---What is your point?-- If the answeer is yes, then what. If the answer is no, then what? MLD |
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Booting Vista Home Premium
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 05:39:19 -0800 (PST), species8350 wrote:
On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 12:44:12 PM UTC, Bill Leary wrote: "species8350" wrote in message I can't boot Vista Home Premium. According to the diagnostics there is no problem. But all I get is a black screen and no messages. When I try to boot into any other mode, for example Safe Mode, I get the same black screen. This machine has only 512MB of RAM, is this the reason Vista will not boot? Did it used to boot with 512M? Some of what you say sounds like an old installation has stopped working but this question sounds like a new installation that's never worked. What do you see before the black screen? Apparently you're at least getting to where you can tell it to select safe mode over normal mode for boot. What happens between that selection and the black screen? Does hard disk activity continue after the screen goes black? - Bill Thanks for responding. I had a problem with the hardware and needed to remove a memory module. Vista used to work with 1GB of RAM. I have never got it to boot with 512MB, but I think that it ought to function, although slowly. When I boot from the hard disk I get the loading logo, I can't really describe it well - repeated green bars that repeat horizontally. After these bars appeared Vista used to load (with 1 GB of RAM). But now I just get a black screen It is almost as if the boot loader is not working. Happy Christmas. A (Boy, your newsreader sure messes with line formats!) Many kinds of motherboards need their RAM sticks to be installed in pairs, and on some motherboards that don't require that, if only one slot of a pair has RAM, it must be a specific slot, e.g., slot 1, not slot 2 - or vice versa. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Booting Vista Home Premium
Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 05:39:19 -0800 (PST), species8350 wrote: On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 12:44:12 PM UTC, Bill Leary wrote: "species8350" wrote in message I can't boot Vista Home Premium. According to the diagnostics there is no problem. But all I get is a black screen and no messages. When I try to boot into any other mode, for example Safe Mode, I get the same black screen. This machine has only 512MB of RAM, is this the reason Vista will not boot? Did it used to boot with 512M? Some of what you say sounds like an old installation has stopped working but this question sounds like a new installation that's never worked. What do you see before the black screen? Apparently you're at least getting to where you can tell it to select safe mode over normal mode for boot. What happens between that selection and the black screen? Does hard disk activity continue after the screen goes black? - Bill Thanks for responding. I had a problem with the hardware and needed to remove a memory module. Vista used to work with 1GB of RAM. I have never got it to boot with 512MB, but I think that it ought to function, although slowly. When I boot from the hard disk I get the loading logo, I can't really describe it well - repeated green bars that repeat horizontally. After these bars appeared Vista used to load (with 1 GB of RAM). But now I just get a black screen It is almost as if the boot loader is not working. Happy Christmas. A (Boy, your newsreader sure messes with line formats!) Many kinds of motherboards need their RAM sticks to be installed in pairs, and on some motherboards that don't require that, if only one slot of a pair has RAM, it must be a specific slot, e.g., slot 1, not slot 2 - or vice versa. The obvious solution to me is to replace the missing RAM. |
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