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Title: Blank screen on Vista laptop
Post by: Simon on Sep 25, 2011, 10:48:30
I fired up my laptop last night, just for convenience, and found that although it appeared to boot up, the desktop wouldn't show, and all I had was a blank screen.  Oddly, I pressed the 'On/Off' button, and the shutdown screen then appeared.  After rebooting a couple of times, I managed to get into Safe Mode, and the desktop then showed, so I did a system restore to before the last Windows Update, which, I seem to recall, included graphics drivers, and sure enough, after the process completed, everything was fine again.

Windows Update has now run again, and all seems OK, so I can only guess that the graphics drivers didn't install properly with the last WU.  Just thought I'd mention this, in case anyone else has a similar problem.
Title: Re: Blank screen on Vista laptop
Post by: Glenn on Sep 25, 2011, 11:18:17
Do you have Rapport installed on the PC, it was doing funny things 2 weeks ago to XP machines?
Title: Re: Blank screen on Vista laptop
Post by: Simon on Sep 25, 2011, 12:24:09
No, I don't, Glenn.
Title: Re: Blank screen on Vista laptop
Post by: Rik on Sep 25, 2011, 12:28:31
You lack Rapport. My that's a big social disadvantage. ;)
Title: Re: Blank screen on Vista laptop
Post by: Simon on Sep 25, 2011, 12:30:44
I save it for the right occasions.  ;)
Title: Re: Blank screen on Vista laptop
Post by: Rik on Sep 25, 2011, 12:47:35
 ;D