well to start off not a good day for me ....i am recieveing
a black screen on my computer.i can reboot it but, it only shows starting windows and a place for your password and when i click it my screen is black.when i hit clr-alt-del it only shows my explorer program is on and nothing else what do i do? the only thing i can think of that happened to me is when i changed my bit color to 256 please help me i have windows 98,please help thanks( black screen)

have to admit ive never seen a black screen however changing you resolution can cause problems if you dont have a good monitor that can handle the resolution as well as the different color settings.... for eg. if you have vga 800*640 16 colours you cannot change the setting to 1024*768 256 colors unless you have svga hope if this is the case connect system to a better monitor higher resolution change the settings to fit your monitor and save hope this helps http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

thank you for the imput , there is no way i can change it my screen is
black when i reboot my computer it shows the windows screen and them a place
to put windows password. i "x" out of it and all i get is a black screen i have no way of getting into windows to make the change . if at all is there some other way to cange this ? thank you so much for the reply

Try entering "Safe Mode" next time you boot...press F8 repeatedly until a screen appears offering a number of choices...select safe mode. If this works for you go into your display properties and try to readjust your colors and resolution settings. Also take a look in the device manager for possible conflicts.

Try and borrow a monitor to check it with. If you can get a picture and boot, go into the display properties and change things back to their original configuration. If you still get no picture, it won't hurt the monitor at all.

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hello again , i have tried the safe mode and the only thing it is giving me is a green screen , nothing i seem to try is working ,i can not even get windows up past my password ,iv'e even tried reinstalling windows but nothing is working for me , i can install it but i still get a black screen i am not on my computer now its my sons if you are wondering how i am writing to all of you thanks for all the input hopefully someone out there has a way for me to fix( still stunned )

Try reseting your CMOS. IF someone has accidently selected agp instaed of pci or vice versa there is no other way to get into your PC.

Check your motherboard documentation on how to do so.

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