Hi,
When I start Windows Vista, I see the little green moving bar that indicates that Vista is loading but when it’s done, the screen turns black and stays this way.
I saw this on Microsoft. It says in the article that the problem was fixed with service pack 1 but I have it installed and I get this problem anyway.

It says that I have to do a clean installation or a parallel installation of Windows Vista to resolve the problem. I dont want to reinstall Vista and lose everything.

Just before I had the problem, I was watching videos on Youtube and at one point, the system froze. I had to force quit the computer by holding the power swich. But when it was time to reboot, I got the the black screen.

Does someone have other options besides doing a clean installation of Vista ?

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Computer Specs:
- Dell XPS 630
- Quad-Core 2.40GHz
- GeForce 8800 GTX 768Mo
- SDRAM DDR2 800MHz Corsair Dominator 4Gig
- Windows Vista, service pack 1

Welcome to PCHF.

Can you boot into the safe mode?

I remember there was a safe mode in XP, but I dont seem to get the option in Vista.
I only have 2 options, one is to start normally which doesn't work and the other option is the one that has Vista checking for problems and says its going to fix them, but I tried that too. It does it's little checkup and reboots the computer but I still get the black screen.

Restart the computer and repeatedly tap F8 on startup.Choose last known good config or safe mode.

Ok thanks,
I'll try that when I get home from work tonight.

Well safe mode and all the options didn't work. I had to do what they said on the Microsoft help page and proceed to a clean reinstall of Vista.

I really hope this doesn't happen again