Screen goes black after login

qfsxs

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Oct 22, 2012
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As soon as I log in the computer shows the "please wait" screen but when it goes to load the desktop the screen turns black and the mouse disappears. At this point the computer will sit indefinitely and never load with the only alternative being a forced shutdown. The computer will still load in safe mode with no delay after login. After messing around with this a few times I've found that it will occasionally load the desktop but after a minute the screen goes black and the computer becomes unresponsive. At this point the motherboard (h77ma-g43) beeped three times although I haven't been able to find the list of beep codes for this particular motherboard.

I suspected that the newest Nvidia driver may have been to blame since I updated it the night before so I went ahead and ran a clean install of it in safe mode, however after the desktop loaded the screen still went black. I would also like to mention that I put in a new power supply about a month ago which may be what's giving me problems. Thanks to anyone that can help me!

Computer Specs:

GPU: GeForce GTX 650 TI
Motherboard: MSI h77ma-g43
RAM: 2x 4GB CORSAIR Vengeance
CPU: Intel Core i3-2120 Sandy Bridge Dual Core 3.3GHz
Power Supply: Thermaltake TR2 700W
 
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Normally, if you have this sort of problem, you will want...

qfsxs

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Oct 22, 2012
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It looks like I've managed to solve this one on my own and here's how.

I started my computer normally and managed to get as far as opening msi afterburner without the computer crashing. To my horror I noticed that someone or something had messed with my overclock settings (I'm betting on the driver update) and had set the core clock and memory clock to MAXIMUM or something like +30,000 MHz on the core!!! Back when I was initially overclocking my gpu it would cause a similar crash with anything over +300, let alone 30000. I may never know exactly why this happened but my computer is running fine now. At least i'll know what to check next time it starts freaking out :)
 


Normally, if you have this sort of problem, you will want to boot up in safe mode, which will not allow programs like MSI Afterburner or even your GPU drivers to run. You can get there by pressing F8 over and over after the initial splash screen at boot up and before Windows starts to load. Once in safe mode, you can uninstall MSI Afterburner as well as GPU drivers (if they won't let you uninstall, remove the device from the hardware manager).

After that, you can safely load up Windows and reinstall things.
 
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