Black Screen

[Treeban]

I installed windows 10 on my desktop &I now have a black screen. I cannot access task manager or get past this black screen. I do have mouse pointer on the screen, but there are no icons, etc,

 

[Trouble]

If you manually power cycle it two or three times interrupting the boot process sufficiently you should get a Repair / Troubleshooting screen.
From there you can attempt a repair or a reset.
give it a try

 

[Treeban]

I have manually powered on & off 5 or 6 times, trying each repair/troubleshooting option to no avail. My attempts to reset or revert back to windows 8 are also negative.

 

[Nitecreature]

Same Problem here Treeban

 

[dick clark]

Have u installed a new vid card recently? or not done updates on it?

 

[MPJacobs]

I installed windows 10 on my desktop &I now have a black screen. I cannot access task manager or get past this black screen. I do have mouse pointer on the screen, but there are no icons, etc,

Try this: when you restart and get the black screen with the cursor, hit you space key once. Then enter you password and hit enter ( assuming you have a password to access you computer). Wait a few seconds. Your desktop should appear.

For me, and many others, there is an issue with Nvidia graphics cards. I am continuing to have problems. It seems to be a driver related issue that hasn't been fixed yet for some.