"Martin Heffels" wrote ...
"Richard Crowley" wrote:
MY laptop died this morning and shows nothing on the screen.
It starts OK, with the MSwin logo on the black screen and the
"progress" bar, but as soon as it flips into the native resolution,
the screen goes dead. This may be the first time I have booted
it since one of those automatic MS "patches" or "upgrades" or
whatever.

Could be. I had this happening after updating my videodrivers one day
of my Nvidia-card (on my desktop, but that doesn't matter). Removed
them, reinstalled, and the thing worked again.
I would disconnect from the internet, do a System Restore, reboot, set
the update to just warn you, and connect to the internet and update
what _you_ want.

I had always reviewed the patches before agreeing to install
them, but this time I forgot they were pending and when I
shut it down for the night I wasn't thinking clearly when I
selected the option to "install pending patches and shutdown"
I'll never do that again. :-(