computer screen goes black after windows logo

[Forest]

still on mup.sys , been around 50mins so far .....

yep it definatly 100% booted from disk only. and it still didnt work. so whats that limiting the problem to ? ......

[Splash]

If it booted straight to the black screen then either a) your machine isn't booting from CD or b) you didn't burn that ISO as an image and you just copied the file to CD.

Anyways - it could still be a fair while longer - I've seen it take more than 2 hours but given that it's your best chance of getting the machine back in working condition without a reinstall of sorts then you'll just have to be patient I'm afraid. I'm just hoping you're not one of these people the turns off System Restore as a waste of space (Given how cheap hard drives are these days I really cant understand the logic in that argument)

[Forest]

i did that in the past, hehe i read it helped so i did it then when my computer died i couldnt go back, i havent done the same since. lol i leant my lesson, k i will leave it all day if i have to. i definatly burnt it as an image, im postivie it said burning image, and i definalty made it run the disk. . .

i will post later about the progress.

thanks

Forest

[Forest]

3 hours later we are still on mup.....im not sure this is going to work. im back to square one

[peterb]

Ok - so when you boot off the CD - what exactly happens?

[Splash]

The file that your machine is struggling to load is the display driver. Until that initialises there's very little going to happen.

But as peterb said - what exactly happens during the boot process from the CD?

[Forest]

it goes boot CD

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dash comes up when it thinking, goes straight into windows logo with the little bar going across several times when done. next screen is black. thats it

[Splash]

Are you sure it doesn't make any attempt, or give you any option whatsoever to boot Knoppix?

Did you try pressing enter or something when that comes up (normally I would expect a "press any key to boot cd" type message is all)

[0iD]

Does the board have on-board graphics? Last time I had this particular problem was when I forgot to disable on-board graphics in the BIOS. Therefore windows loads, gets confused as to what's the primary graphics display & goes for the default.

Just a thought.

[Forest]

nope no onboard, and yh thinking about it thats unusal it normaly says press any button to boot from CD, right give me me 10mins gonna try again...

right nope it doesnt ask to press any button to start disk, and i disabled all other boot devices and made CD 1st choice. . . . still nothing

[peterb]

Ypu shpoul;dn't see any windows logo if you are booting from the CD...

Either you didn't burn the CD correctly
or the Bios is set incorrectly.

put the CD in the drive, then power up the machine - it should boot straight off the cd - no windows logo - nothing - just a lot of text as it boots into Knoppix.

[Forest]

bios set incorectly ? ... what could be the problem in the bios ?
anything need to be enabled or disabled ?


i downloaded the ISO. straight into the blank CD

and a box popped up saying files ready to be written clicked that

blank CD came up with my iso. file in there clicked write files and a box came up saying burning image on disk

Forest

[Splash]

Ok, that's where you went wrong - you need to burn it as an image, not just dump the iso on the disc.

[Forest]

aha, so its best to download file to say "my documents" ? then what. i feel so stupid at the moment lol. ?

thanks

Forest

[Splash]

What application are you using to burn your CD?

[Forest]

windows write software ....

i can see were i went wrong didnt follow peterb instructions propperly about the double click.... ive run out of CDs but ive sent a mate to get me some i will try attempt 2 when he arrives.

forest