What Do I Do About Black Login Screen?

ShoryuSam

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Jan 6, 2014
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Hello everyone,

So I've had this Asus laptop since my freshman year of undergrad. I obviously have graduated and am waiting for a job currently, but this old laptop of mine only really runs okay on safe mode with networking in Windows 7.

Its an Asus K40AB with a Turion Dual core processor (lol its pretty much a horrible single core probably) with 4 gigs of ram, 64 bit windows 7,

The weird thing is that its says that I have an ATI Radeon 3200 (probably its the integrated card), but in reality according to the sticker still on the laptop, its got a Radeon 4570 graphics card...

Is this is an issue of maybe its switching to the integrated card and its completely black-screening due to a damaged video card due to drivers or something?

This laptop has been prone to heat issues though, so I even opened it up and cleaned it out, and still, that didn't do anything.

Can you guys come up with steps of what to do because I would still like to use this from time to time, or at least to be able to go into normal Windows 7 and backup music and a host of other things (though, I could do this normally for backup purposes via safe mode, I just can't play emulators at times ;P)

The only other thing I forgot to mention is that I have only 7 gigs free on the 75 gig hdd that contains windows, while I have 74 gigs free on the other harddrive that basically just contains music.

 
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have u checked for viruses/malware. I forget which viruse it was but I removed a viruses on someones computer one time that caused that issue. also have there been any recent updates to ur video card or any other software if so u might when u boot into safe mode go to system restore and restore ur computer to an earlier date when u could see ur log in screen, its faster then a reinstall because u wont have to restore all ur apps.

last case id go with a reinstall as ss202sl said, (make sure to back up all ur data first then do a clean install)
You may have overheated and damaged your graphics card.
I would probably see if there are any ASUS diagnostics(on a bootable CD) that you could download and run that would test the graphics card(and other components). If the diagnostics passed, I would suggest re-installing Windows.
 
have u checked for viruses/malware. I forget which viruse it was but I removed a viruses on someones computer one time that caused that issue. also have there been any recent updates to ur video card or any other software if so u might when u boot into safe mode go to system restore and restore ur computer to an earlier date when u could see ur log in screen, its faster then a reinstall because u wont have to restore all ur apps.

last case id go with a reinstall as ss202sl said, (make sure to back up all ur data first then do a clean install)
 
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