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There's something wrong with my puter.

When I turn it on everything seems fine until windows starts. I hear the startup sound and I hear skype starting up, but all I see is a black screen.

It will start normally in safe mode, but I don't know what to do to make windows work in normal mode.

Could it be my video card? (ATi Sapphire Radeon X1900XT 256 MB, latest drivers installed) I have the idea that it doesn't support my default resolution anymore...

Does anyone know what's going on?  :-?

The screen is in?

? :-? ?

Sounds like those new drivers ain't workin' out. I would load the previos drivers and see what that does. If that fails to help I would be checking hardware configurations. Last resort is get a new video card, or an old one that you know is good.

The drivers were working fine for 2 months... :-?

You see, I didn't change anything. It just stopped working right...

I have to know where the problem lies.
Few possibilties:

- Videocard (hardware)
- Drivers
- Windows
- Monitor (hardware)
- Power supply (hardware)
- Motherboard (hardware)

My specs:

Intel Core 2 duo 6300 Allendale (1,86 GHz)
Kingston 1024MB DDR2 (2x512) PC5300 667MHz CL5
Asus P5B motherboard
ATi Sapphire Radeon X1900 XT 256MB
Antec 450 W SmartPower 2.0
Seagate 250GB SATA II 7200RPM 16MB Barracuda 7200.10

If it's normal until windows loads the monitor is working at the hardware level. Do you have a repair disk? It sounds like a problem with a program not liking resolution settings or video drivers. Does anything else open besides Windows?

pray to god it may start working

Well... I'm in VGA mode now and everything works fine. I do have to scroll half an hour on each website though.  :-[

I think (and hope) it's the drivers, so I'll try to reinstall them.

Tnx

Ok... everything is working again!  :D
I just uninstalled the GPU in safemode, restarted windows in normal mode and let it auto-detect the card. Easy as that!  :P

Thanks for your help!  :)