Computer refuses to boot into windows...

naruto1988

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so i was watching this music video on ifilm.com and all of a sudden, my firefox froze. my computer wouldn't respond, as if something as taking up all the CPU cycles...after waiting and trying to end firefox without success, i press the hard reboot button. now my computer goes past the windows boot screen w/ the loading bar and gives me a blank black screen. i think i am at my desktop...but my screen is blank. do you guys think my video card is at fault? or what happened?

edit: i can see my cursor and move it around...nothing else though.
 

kranky

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If you hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, does task manager start up? Does it show any odd processes running that you can kill?
 

naruto1988

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i pressed control+alt+delete multiple times to no avail. if i press the 'my computer' and 'calculator' shortcut on my keyboard, i see the mouse cursor flash a hourglass next to it...
 

Kishan

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Originally posted by: naruto1988
i can get into safe mode...=/

ïn safe mode when you check your video drivers, does it say something called VGASAVE?
 

Kishan

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Originally posted by: naruto1988
so i was watching this music video on ifilm.com and all of a sudden, my firefox froze. my computer wouldn't respond, as if something as taking up all the CPU cycles...after waiting and trying to end firefox without success, i press the hard reboot button. now my computer goes past the windows boot screen w/ the loading bar and gives me a blank black screen. i think i am at my desktop...but my screen is blank. do you guys think my video card is at fault? or what happened?

edit: i can see my cursor and move it around...nothing else though.

your monitor doesn't go into powersave mode by any chance, does it?
 

naruto1988

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Originally posted by: KPSHAH316
Originally posted by: naruto1988
i can get into safe mode...=/

ïn safe mode when you check your video drivers, does it say something called VGASAVE?

huh? i uninstalled my omega driver's and now i'm going to try to uninstall my video card...radlinker won't uninstall because i'm in safe mode...

edit: whew, i got back into the real mode...after i uninstalled my omega's and my video cards...ifilms.com scare me now =(