Hey folks, this issue started last night, and having exhausted the limits of my err, limited technical knowledge, here I've arrived.
After a seemingly random shutdown last night resulting in a BSOD (see below), I've only been able to get Vista to work as far as the login screen. After inputting my password, it just sits there with a black screen plus cursor for anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute or more, before the monitor begins to flick in and out of sleep mode (usually 3-5 times), ultimately resulting in a BSOD
(Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed. STOP 0x00000116).
Safe mode works fine, although when I attempted to do a system restore (initially assuming some sort of malware or virus), I encountered another BSOD
(PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA STOP: 0x00000050).
After a few more failed restarts (resulting in the first BSOD above each time), I tried updating my video card's drivers to the latest version in safe mode. After doing this, I was actually able to boot normally, and see something other than a black screen plus cursor for just long enough to open MSN and Firefox - about ten seconds later, the screen began to flick on and off (with the message "Display Driver has suddenly stopped responding" popping up in the lower right corner each time), before returning to the initial BSOD once again. Any attempts to start outside of safe mode since then have just resulted in the black-screen-plus-cursor-turning-to-BSOD issue again, effectively sending me back to square one and out of ideas at this point. Anyone out there have any insight into this particular issue?
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q3900 @2.50GHz
RAM: 8GB DDR2 SDRAM
After a seemingly random shutdown last night resulting in a BSOD (see below), I've only been able to get Vista to work as far as the login screen. After inputting my password, it just sits there with a black screen plus cursor for anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute or more, before the monitor begins to flick in and out of sleep mode (usually 3-5 times), ultimately resulting in a BSOD
(Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed. STOP 0x00000116).
Safe mode works fine, although when I attempted to do a system restore (initially assuming some sort of malware or virus), I encountered another BSOD
(PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA STOP: 0x00000050).
After a few more failed restarts (resulting in the first BSOD above each time), I tried updating my video card's drivers to the latest version in safe mode. After doing this, I was actually able to boot normally, and see something other than a black screen plus cursor for just long enough to open MSN and Firefox - about ten seconds later, the screen began to flick on and off (with the message "Display Driver has suddenly stopped responding" popping up in the lower right corner each time), before returning to the initial BSOD once again. Any attempts to start outside of safe mode since then have just resulted in the black-screen-plus-cursor-turning-to-BSOD issue again, effectively sending me back to square one and out of ideas at this point. Anyone out there have any insight into this particular issue?
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q3900 @2.50GHz
RAM: 8GB DDR2 SDRAM
