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Black screen (with cursor) after Windows updates
Hello all,
Today during my browsing with Chrome all of the sudden all of my 3 monitors just turned pitch black with only a cursor . At first I thought it might be a problem with the Graphics card since this is mainly my video editing PC that encodes a lot of video with CUDA assistance. But only two of the monitors are hooked up via my GeForce card and the third one is connected from the onboard VGA port and none of them worked.
I tried to fix the issue following any tutorials I could find online (they are basically all the same stating to fix the "explorer.exe" in the register. But non have helped.
Thus far I have figured out the following:
If I boot my PC with only my onboard graphics in use I can login and use Windows "normally". As soon as I plug in something to the GeForce card I cannot do anything. My desktop view is still visible on my VGA connection, but nothing I try to click can be clicked as if it was only an image or the resolution has changed so much that I simply cannot find the appropriate place to click - both of the other monitors are dead. Even right click does nothing, so it is basically the same if I boot my PC up with all of the cables pluged in.
If I connect just one of the monitors through GeForce' card nothing happens. I see the Windows loading screen for less than a second and than nothing only a black screen with my mouse is visible.
While I used my VGA monitor only I deleted the drivers for my graphics card, rebooted the PC and than for a brief second (until it was recognised I guess) one of my screens and the VGA port functioned normally.
Of course I also tried to boot up Ubuntu Live just to see if the Graphics card was OK and it worked without a problem on all 3 monitors.
So I am 99,99% sure that the issue is with some sort of updated drivers (I did not update but I assume it probably updated while I was using my PC), but I simply cannot find a way to make this function again.
I thank you in advance for any inputs on this matter, it is driving me crazy :)