black screen death

Yes, not the blue screen of death, but the black screen of death. I installed Vista on another machine and I seem to be having some issues with it. After the install occurs the system appears to be booting up just fine, but then it will come to a black screen with the build # and what not in the corner and that is it! I first thought it was a grahpics error, so I re-enabled the onboard graphics, but to no avail. Any suggestions would be great.

Yes, not the blue screen of death, but the black screen of death. I installed Vista on another machine and I seem to be having some issues with it. After the install occurs the system appears to be booting up just fine, but then it will come to a black screen with the build # and what not in the corner and that is it! I first thought it was a grahpics error, so I re-enabled the onboard graphics, but to no avail. Any suggestions would be great.

I am installing Vista and when it reboots after installing the files (the first step) I get a black screen with this is the lower right hand corner
Windows Vista(TM) Beta 2 Evaluation Copy. buiold 5384
I also can move the mouse pointer around.

Reboot and press F8. Choose VGA mode and see if it boots.
Failing that, do the same but this time choose safe mode.
Do you make it to safe mode? Yes: Disable the video card in device manager and boot into normal mode and perhaps update the driver.
No: Boot from dvd and choose recovery options. Then choose startup repair adn see if that helps.
Failing all this most like a clean install should be performed.
"Batman 825" wrote:

I am installing Vista and when it reboots after installing the files (the first step) I get a black screen with this is the lower right hand corner
Windows Vista(TM) Beta 2 Evaluation Copy. buiold 5384
I also can move the mouse pointer around.

I booted into safe mode and downloaded a new driver from ATI and installed it and it worked. Thanks for the help.
"Ron Rector" wrote:

Reboot and press F8. Choose VGA mode and see if it boots.
Failing that, do the same but this time choose safe mode.
Do you make it to safe mode? Yes: Disable the video card in device manager and boot into normal mode and perhaps update the driver.
No: Boot from dvd and choose recovery options. Then choose startup repair adn see if that helps.
Failing all this most like a clean install should be performed.
"Batman 825" wrote:
I am installing Vista and when it reboots after installing the files (the first step) I get a black screen with this is the lower right hand corner
Windows Vista(TM) Beta 2 Evaluation Copy. buiold 5384
I also can move the mouse pointer around.