I have Windows 7 starter System worked fine for a monhts. Today I logged in and get a black screen with mouse cursor. Can move cursor around screen. Laptop appears to be running, but screen is black. Can not bring up task manager (or can not see it). This is not a monitor selection issue (can't switch to another monitor). Plus, mouse cursor is visible. If I hit Crtl-Alt-Delete, the menu comes up. I can logoff or reboot (can not see task manager). If I logoff or restart, I go to the Windows login screen as normal. Attempt to login and get same black screen. I am trying to login to a domain account. I can login to local Admin account. Seems to work fine from this profile. Is this just a corrupt profile issue? Recreating profile will be difficult from off site. Can try system restore. I have seen several questions posted regarding black screens, but symptoms seem varied in each case. Has anyone else had a similar scenario and found an easy fix? Thank you.

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Did it work properly using a VGA (analog) cable? If so, check your DVI (digital) cable against the pictures at the bottom of http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html.
You probably have one of the two at the left. Each has a different bandwidth, translating to a maximum resolution. The native resolution for your monitor might be marginal if you have a single-link DVI-D cable.
My 204B seems very picky about signal-level. It blinks when connected by DVI, even though it should be fine with a single-link cable, and complains about the settings even though the settings are optimal. Maybe yours is similar. I have ordered a dual-link cable and will try that myself.

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I suggest you try another video card in your computer. This may be the culprit if the second monitor did the same thing as the first. If the different video card does the same thing, I would then suspect the motherboard.

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See if you can download it from Microsoft. It seems to be related to the languge translators in Windows (NLS file).

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Replace swolen capacitors on power board.

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Have you installed any new applications, peripheral hardware or operating system updates recently as all of these can cause random issues. Is it possible to open the task manager whilst this lock up is occurring? If so, take a look at the running processes and sort them by CPU and/or memory usage to find the highest value image name then click on end process to see whether it clears the lock up.