Black screen at startup with NVIDIA driver

[BigMinge]

When you go to Device Manager, what do you see under Monitors? is your Monitor Name & Model listed or just "Generic PnP Monitor"? if the latter... therein lies your problem.

I was having the same issue and not until I change the monitors driver was that the problem went away.

Also, if you are not installing the GPU driver with "Run as an Administrator", you may get this problem as well.

Mine says Generic Non-PnP Monitor. And yes i am installing it as "Run as an Administrator" Tried looking for updated drivers for my monitor and it says it has the best available. Still having no luck even with going to the old drivers GeForce Release 178. I'll check all the cables, but i don't think this will help seeing as it works fine in safe mode and when i uninstall the drivers it boots up fine. I'll keep trying stuff. Thanks for the imput guys

Got to the monitors website for the driver. I have a Samsung and went to their site that had a special 64 bit driver for the monitor. I run a 9800GT and do not have the issue you are having.

Done that.

 

[BigMinge]

This is what i get upon rebooting after installing the Driver

 

[AstaLaVista]

Yep, that is exactly what I was going through before I was able to get a Vista x64 driver for my monitor. Sorry BigMinge, I don't know what else to tell you or how else to guide you... my only solution (at least in my case) was finding a different driver to work with Vista x64.

Only thing I can recommend from here is, either you go back to XP or get a newer monitor, making sure the one you will get is 100% compatible with Vista x64... both options will be a pain in the butt but the first option may not cost you that much

Here are two more drivers I was able to find for other Monitors:

This one is for the VX2265wm
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/d...ies/vx2265wm-fuhzion-lcd.htm#tabbox_downloads

This is for a 24"
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/desktop-monitors/lcd/x-series/vx2835wm.htm#tabbox_downloads

 

[BigMinge]

Hmm i might have to reinstall Vista. It was working fine until it installed that 182.08 driver. Cheers anyway for the help AstaLaVista. I'll let u know if i find a solution

 

[BigMinge]

Yay it's working. Right now all i did was install the lastet Vista updates (7) install driver 182.46 and it's all sweet now. So it's all good now. Thanks for everyone's advice, it was much apprecited.