Computer booting to black screen after login.

Hi,

My computer recently seems to be having some issue where after I logged in, sometimes it will boot to a black screen with only a cursor. I can't seem to open task manager through ctrl+alt+delete as it doesn't respond. The only way that I can boot back into the desktop is either force-restarting the computer, or pressing the sleep button, on my com, wait for a few minutes to let the com sleep, and then wake the com up again then i'm presented with the desktop.
I have checked the event logs on my PC and they don't seem to report any error.
Please advice.

Thanks

Hi,

I will give it a try and report back, as it only happens occasionally. Usually it happens when I bring my laptop to school. I suspect it has something to do with my display drivers as when I'm at home, i use an external monitor.

I've just had a similar problem where the PC would load the BIOS screen but failed to boot into Windows just showing a black screen. The problem was a bust AMD graphics card which I spotted by noticing display artefacts on the BIOS screen. In my case I just removed the graphics card and used the onboard GPU. All is now fine with a new graphics card.

I see you have a laptop so fixing a bust GPU will not be straightforward and expensive if that's the problem.

This is a log collector that we use in the bsod forum. It will collect event.vwr, bsod, msinfo32, dxdiag, drivers, etc.
Please run the DM log collector and post a zip into the thread and we will troubleshoot the files.

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Hi,
My apologies for the late replies. Have been busy with school work :P.
It happened again and I realized that after I unchecked fast-startup last friday, I forgot to save changes.

I will run the DM log collector tonight and also uncheck fast-startup.

What happens when you right click on the desktop?

if you get a context menu then your desktop is on the other display which can't be seen because of the lack of a monitor. This is not exactly an uncommon occurrence.