Complicated Black Screen problems

Hello, I doubt this is a "Black Screen of Death" problem with a windows 7 update. I can't even get to windows. Closest I have gotten was the log-in and it blacked out b4 I could even type the password if it even boots at all. I have looked through several forums and tried the following

-I have tried serveral power/battery tricks than involve taking out the battery and holding down the power button..etc

-I have tried all safe modes and the same result...It starts up to the log-in then blacks out

-I have tried the boot-up repair

-I have tried putting the windows 7 disk and booting it from there to try and re-format or re-install everything. I press "any" key to boot from the disc, It starts to load up the screen and then it black screens.

Basically It blacks screens within 30 secs no matter what I am doing. No error messages either. Is my Hard Drive just done for or what? If anyone can help that would be great. Thanks

 

I'm not sure what is going on. Just as a quick test when starting without the CD after it goes to the black screen hit the left shift key 5 times in a row quickly. Do you get a sticky keys popup?

 

No. Nothing pops up after the black screen no matter what I do. The thing that is bothering me is that it does it at different times but always within about 30 secs. I got my hopes up when it started to seem like it was booting fine under Safe mode w/networking then it blacked out. It is a HP Pavilion Dv7. I have noticed that many HP owners have had a similar problem with the 6000 series but all those battery tricks haven't worked.

 

Can you give me a link to one of the threads describing a similar problem with the battery trick?

One thought is I want to be sure it is booting from CD. You are definitely seeing the "press any key screen"? Does the next screen say loading files? http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/ss/windows-7-startup-repair_2.htm

 

Here is one of several forums with this problem with HPs but most everyone found these tricks to work. I have tried several different ones.

http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-54306-hp-pavilion-has-black-screen-problem

Yes, I do get the "press any key" message. It starts booting goes to loading screen then shortly after it black screens.

 

I'm not sure your problem is exactly the same as most on that page. You are getting the HP screen and it is during Windows loading that it stops.

You could try this from that thread to see if it could be keyboard related but I doubt it:

It might be a memory issue, if you have more than one RAM module installed then you could try each, one at a time to see if it gets any further.

Do you have any other bootable CDs around that you could test to see if they also quit after several seconds--like an old XP CD or a Linux CD?

 

Agree with sach.

try another OS booting from the cd/dvd drive at least this might tell you if it is an OS or hardware problem.

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