Not long ago i acquired a good query through someone that has been experiencing the feared message black screen once they did a complete hardware upgrade of Ram memory, a fresh motherboard and other features. I suppose their particular computer required an up-date since engineering and technology grows in an scary speed. Every thing was perfectly fine just before the change and the person was not happy to recognized that the just done improvement made it all worse.
As I was researching this problem, I discovered it wasn’t a fluke problem as others had experienced it also and figured out a convenient way to resolve the issue.
What can you do when you see a computer black screen?
It is a scary thing when you see a black screen on your computer. Most people immediately think that this is the biggest disaster in the world, when it could actually be a really simple and easy problem to fix.
Unfortunately there are 1001 solutions to a black screen on a computer, but if you have just installed hardware, and your computer was working fine earlier, then we can probably narrow it down a little further.
Here are a few tips for troubleshooting a computer black screen:
- Do not do anything straight away. Stop and think before you do something silly and ruin your computer even further.
- Think about what steps you have just performed and try and remember if you have done something wrong.
- If you’re experiencing black screen problems after a hardware upgrade, it’s best to work backwards to solve your issues. Take out what you just put in. Undo your work.
- Also this make sure all your connections are tight and secure. Maybe you knocked something accidentally while upgrading your hardware.
If these four steps do not help then here are some more to try:
- Make sure all the necessary drivers have been installed. Sometimes, figuring out if you have the right drivers installed is impossible because you can never enter that far into the startup to decipher whether they are or not. If this is the case, you might need to reinstall your operating system from the startup disk initially included with your computer.
- Installing new external devices is great but it does nothing to upgrade your internal resources and many times your data is so fragmented and segregated that it is unable to read your new hardware. By reinstalling your operating system off a bootable disk, you’ll start fresh and should be able to experience quick and easy manipulation of your entire system.
Just remember that when you format a computer, you will lose all the files that are on your hard drive. Formatting your computer should be a last step after trying many more possible solutions. Generally if you see a black screen on your computer monitor, directly after installing new components, then tracing back your steps is the best way to solve your problem.
Hopefully you have made a simple mistake and not actually damaged any other components inside your computer. For example if you were replacing computer memory, you possibly could have damaged your motherboard by transferring static electricity from your body to the component. If you simply put the computer RAM in the slot incorrectly, then your problem is easy fix.
I have many more troubleshooting ideas to try when your computer has a black screen. You should really try everything possible, before having to resort to formatting your hard drive.