Not booting all the way

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Ray

RC1 clean install on it's own drive, no dual boot, I use the BIOS boot
loader to select.

It was working really good until I did some installations, Adobe Reader,
Photoshop and a genealogy program, nothing I hadn't done before in Beta2.
I used "msconfig" to turn off the Adobe stuff that they insist on
running, and while I was in there I saw that "Fax" was checked so I
unchecked it, hey . . . who faxes theses days?

When I rebooted, as per instructions, it got to where the mouse was
showing and the logo in the bottom right corner was there, but the
screen was black, no login screen.

I booted from the CD, it found no boot problems and I had no restore
points set so that wasn't an option.

Booting in Safe mode gives me the same thing, a black screen, 4 "safe
mode" logos in the corners of the screen and a movable mouse cursor.

I can get into Vista from either XP or boot into DOS from the CD but I
don't know where to start looking.

I'd like to be able to "fix it" without having to resort to a reinstall
if I can.

Ray
 
Anyone?

They say that Vista is of modular construction, a central core and
various modules that handle their own end of the operating system. You
would think that if a module goes down, let's say the login screen, then
one should be able to replace that faulty module from the CD. Or is this
thinking too simplistic? I've often been told I'm simple :-)

Ray
 
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