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Question

Windows 7 display is black after display drivers installed

Aug 13, 2018 11:26PM PDT

The display is fine with no display driver. The display is black after display drivers installed

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Re: display black
Aug 14, 2018 12:19AM PDT

Apparently the wrong driver. Boot into safe mode and do a driver rollback from Device Manager.

Or is there more to the story?

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Display is black after display drivers installed
Aug 14, 2018 3:31AM PDT

I solved this by doing these operations.
1. Booting into safe-mode
2. Select "Low Resolution" from list
3. After re-boot and everything loaded, right-click desktop, open 'Resolution'
4. From "800 x 600" go to 1280 x 1024
5. Click Accept & Save
6. Open 'Create a restore point' and my label was: "Black Screen Fixed"
7. Done