Black screen whenever I don't boot into safe mode.

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biionictristan

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I woke my PC up earlier to a black screen. Restarted the PC and the BIOS and Windows startup seemed to be in much lower resolution than normal and when I tried to boot into windows I got a black screen and no signal on the monitors, my keyboard and mouse are on though. I have a GTX 970 and nothing was wrong with it yesterday. I was able to boot into safe mode and uninstall the driver and it booted up fine, but when i restarted after reinstalling the driver I have the same issue. I have tried both of my monitors and it seems like my GPU doesn't want to do any resolution higher than 800x600. Any ideas? Usually i can figure these things out but i don't see anyone with this issue.
 
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doctor8ball
So a faulty port ?
It displays the vista thing when windows is unable to provide a screen resolution higher than 800x600.
Remove all the gfx drivers using appropriate tools in safe mode and reboot windows.
The boot screen should now be normal.
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It comes with a slightly higher clock but i haven't messed with anything. (ASUS STRIX EDITION 970). I have a FX-8350 running at stock clocks, 16gb ram stock speed.

I held the power button down to shut it off initially since I couldn't do anything on the black screen. I installed the newest NVIDIA game ready driver and its working fine on my 760 and it was fine on my 970 until i woke my pc up. I will also make a note i get a weird green loading bar instead of the normal windows 7 loading screen with the 970 it reminds me of vista, I'm not sure if that signifies anything.
 
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Its a very annoying and common problem in Windows 7.
As we all know Windows 7 contains a new animated boot screen which shows animated items/balls that come together to form Windows logo.

Sometimes it starts showing the old Vista styled boot screen which contains only a green progressbar with black background.
Most of the time it happens when a user tries to repair the boot loader or adds a new entry for Windows 7.
If you are also facing this problem, then here is a very simple and working solution for you:
1. Boot into Windows 7 and click on "Start button -> All Programs -> Accessories". Now right-click on "Command Prompt" and select "Run As Administrator". If you are prompted to enter password, enter the password and continue. You can also open Command Prompt in Administrator mode by typing "cmd" in Startmenu Search box and press "Ctrl+Shift+Enter".
2. Now provide following command:
bcdedit /set {current} locale en-US
The above command is for English version of Windows, if you are using some other language version, then change "en-US" to your own locale.
3. Exit Command Prompt and restart your system. Now the new animated Windows 7 boot screen should be back in action.
NOTE: If the above method doesn't work for you, provide following command again using Command Prompt:
bcdboot %WinDir% /l en-US
And restart your system.

Your gfx card needs to be seated tightly in the pcie slot.
What's your PSU?
 
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Cooler master silent pro 620w. My 760 just did the same thing when I woke up the pc and its the same issue again. I think something is wrong with my Windows Install.

 
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I think it may have been my PCI-E slot. I reinstlaled windows and it didn't fix, but swapping to the other slot seems to be working for now. Will update because i seem to have it break shortly after i fix it lol
 
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So a faulty port ?
It displays the vista thing when windows is unable to provide a screen resolution higher than 800x600.
Remove all the gfx drivers using appropriate tools in safe mode and reboot windows.
The boot screen should now be normal.
 
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I didn't mean to select you as best answer. But I have pretty much figure where the issue actually is. Whenever the DVI is plugged in it only works in safe mode, when only HDMI is plugged in it boots up just fine but when i go to plug in my other monitor to either DVI port i get a black screen. And when i start with only the DVI i get a low resolution BIOS and windows startup.

So basically my DVI ports are running at like half power but hdmi works fine.(Or is my cord messed up somehow?!) I'm trying to look through NVIDIA settings to see what would cause this but im stumped. At least I can use one monitor steadily for now but this is definitely weird (ran some games to see if it was a PSU issue but gtav cranked up ran just fine)
 
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THE DVI CABLE WAS THE ISSUE THE WHOLE TIME. I don't know how it was working like 20% of the time but it was the DVI cable, that was the only issue so i went through all this for pretty much nothing, thanks for the help man, I guess I shouldn't have counted out the easy fix so quick. LOL. Glad thats over with.

 
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wow, I have the same problem. my screen goes black everytime I try to login with Normal mode. have FX-8320, gonna turn off the PC and check everything again. this is so frustrating...
 
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For me it was literally just the cable. For some reason the DVI worked well enough to do low res but anything above black screened, try another cord if you can since that was literally my only issue and i spent ~4 hours trying to deal with it.
 
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I've spent the whole day and still nothing... the only thing I found is when I delete the video card drivers in Safe Mode I can run the Windows in Normal Mode without any problems. as soon as the Windows install the video card drivers by itself and makes me do the mandatory restart, the black screen comes back. I think the issue is that Windows somehow thinks the VGA is my main monitor and switches them prior to login. My Samsung SA300 monitor also dissapeared from Device Manager and it's name changed the to standard PNP. don't know what to do, I've tried so many things...
 
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