Originally Posted by SallyRand

OK, my computer will boot up; you can see the intital Windows screen with the little dots moving acrass the bottom of he monitor but the screen then goes dark until the screensaver comes on. Cancelling the screensaver simply returns me to a black screen. Same thing in Safe MOde.

NO idea how to fix this and even tried changing the video card to no avail.

WTF?

Any ideas?