A black screen when loading a computer or laptop indicates serious problems in the operation of software or hardware. This can rotate the fan on the processor cooling system and burn the hard disk loading indicator. A significant amount of time and nervous energy is usually spent on solving such problems. In this article, let's talk about the causes of the emergence of a failure and how to eliminate them.
Black screen
Summary of black screens and all of them appear under different circumstances. Below we give a list with explanations:
- Fully empty field with blinking cursor. Such behavior of the system may say that for some reason the graphic shell was not loaded.
- Error "Could Not Read The Boot Medium!" And the like meant that there is no possibility to consider information from the bootable carrier or it is not at all.
- A proposal to start the recovery procedure due to the impossibility of loading the operating system.
Further we will analyze in detail each of these cases.
Option 1: Blank screen with cursor
As mentioned above, such a screen tells us about the absence of the GUI operating system boot. For this corresponds to the Explorer.exe file ("Explorer"). An error in the start of the "conductor" may occur due to its blocking by viruses or antiviruses (in pirate Windows copies, it is quite possible - there were cases), as well as due to banal damage by the same malicious programs, user hands or incorrect updates.
You can make the following in this situation:
- Run "rollback" if the problem is observed after the update of the system.
- Try to run "Explorer" manually.
- Work on the detection of viruses, as well as disable the antivirus program.
- Another option is to just wait some time. During the update, especially on weak systems, the image may not be translated on the monitor or display with a large delay.
- Check the performance of the monitor, - perhaps he "ordered a long time to live."
- Update video driver, and blindly.
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Option 2: boot disk
This error occurs due to a software failure or malfunction directly the carrier itself or the port to which it is connected. This may also occur due to the violation of the order of boot in BIOS, damage to boot files or sectors. All these factors lead to the fact that the system hard drive is simply not included in the work.The following actions will be helped to solve the problem:
- Restoring the system with a pre-download attempt in "Safe Mode". This method is suitable in the event of a crash in the work of drivers and other programs.
- Check the list of devices in the BIOS and the order of their download. Some user actions can cause media queue violation and even to remove from the list of the desired disk.
- Checking the performance of "hard" on which the loaded operating system is located.
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The information provided in the article above is suitable not only for Windows XP, but also for other version versions.
Option 3: Recovery Screen
This screen occurs in cases where the system cannot independently boot. The reason for this may be a failure, an unexpected disconnection of electricity or incorrect steps to update, restore or change system files responsible for loading. It may also be a viral attack pointing to these files. In a word - these problems are a focus.
Unfortunately, this is all that can be done to restore the system boot. Next will help only reinstalling. In order not to get into this situation and not lose important files, regularly make backups and create recovery points before each installation of drivers and programs.
Read more: How to create a recovery point in Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
Conclusion
Thus, we disassembled several variants of the black screen when loading the operating system. The success of refundability in all cases depends on the severity of the problem and preventive actions, such as backups and recovery points. Do not forget about the possibility of viral attack, as well as to remember the ways to protect against this kind of trouble.