Thanks for the suggestion daviddk but I just finished that process and the issue remains. I still have to use that bootable USB to just get the installation disk that to not freeze when it loads up.

It cannot and I figured it wouldn't work; but my train of thought was that the mini Windows XP was using a generic driver. I had to try anyway, on the off chance the generic driver worked.

After upgrading my Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro I have also been plagued with the black screen of death. After the BIOS screen it goes black and I do not even get a mouse cursor and I've also let...