Windows 2000 black screen

Hello,

I have an old, but until now well-working PC:

Enermax 300W PSU
MSI KT4 Ultra MB
AMD XP 2400+ processor
Sapphire Radeon X800XL 256MB graphics card
+ several hard drives, C: on an 160GB Seagate
+ memory 2GB
+ Windows 2000 Pro (all latest updates installed)

The problem started right out of the blue, it boots
fine up to the Windows logo + bar, and then the screen
goes black.

Inspected the hardware, no suspicious-looking capacitors
on the MB, not too much dust (removed what little there was).
All cards seem to have good contact.

I can get into the BIOS OK, and as far as I can tell all
voltages + everything else is OK.

Went into Safe mode, ran chkdsk, nothing wrong there.
Ran virus scanner (but that's an old Norton version, so it
might have missed something) + Spybot + AdAware. Nothing.

Booted from a Knoppix DVD, that went OK, so it would seem
that the graphics card is fine. Ran selftest on the system hard
drive, no errors.

Finally, I went and restored the whole C: drive from an Acronis
TrueImage backup that was about a month old.

But I still have the same problem!!!

Does anybody have any good ideas where to look for the source
of the troubles???

BR,

Mikael

Can you boot in Safe Mode? If so, then you're probably looking at a corrupt driver issue. You can try removing drivers one at a time in Safe Mode and rebooting. The video driver would be the most likely place to start. If that doesn't work, a repair install should get you up and running.