
By the time it finished it looked something like this:ĬHKDSK is verifying security descriptors" It then said I could cancel, but recommended I let it run, so I did. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency"

What was different is that when I started up my laptop and chose "Start Windows up normally," it then went to a black screen which displayed:

I also changed my Windows 7 theme to one of the simpler, basic defaults, as that had caused problems for me in the past.Īfter that, everything was fine for a couple of weeks until today- when it happened for the third time. My first thought was that it was a video card problem, so I updated the drivers for my ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 at the AMD website. Because I couldn't see anything, however, I had to hard reboot all three times. All three times I still had audio I was on YouTube when it happened while websurfing, and while gaming I know my laptop was still otherwise responding because the in-game menu plays audio cues whenever you press a button. On three separate occasions my screen has gone black- twice while playing a game, once while I was browsing the web. Intel Core2 Duo CPU P7450 2.13GHz, 4 GB RAM. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit on a laptop that is a few years old.
