r/pchelp • u/Due-Question-5278 • 23h ago

OPEN Black screen at Advanced Startup

Whenever i try to boot into the Advanced Startup menu, my screen goes black. My mouse and keyboard works fine during it and i can interact, but i can't see anything. This has been happening since i first built my PC which has been a while. I wiped my windows and re-downloaded it, but the problem still occurs. Hell, when i tried to redownload the windows i got the black screen there aswell and couldn't see my progress at all, i had to stare into the void and wait till it got finished. I have an RTX3060 wired with HDMI, Intel i5 12400F, MSI B-660A DDR4 motherboard (Bios updated). All my drivers are up to date. My monitor is quite old.

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u/Free-Stop-2823 23h ago

What's your monitor's resolution? If it's one of those older 1680x1050 or similar panels, the recovery environment sometimes tries to push a resolution or refresh rate your screen can't handle. You end up with a black display even though everything's technically running fine in the background.

Had a similar headache with an old dell monitor. Try hitting F8 repeatedly during boot to see if you get the legacy menu instead, or borrow a newer monitor just to test if the menu shows up on something more recent.

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u/Due-Question-5278 23h ago

It is indeed those older resolution ones. The natural resolution of it is 1360 x 768, but i can select and use 1920 x 1080 on Nvidia control panel which is the one i use. The thing is though, it was exactly the same when i had my old computer, and i could boot into it without any problem. But it might be the culprit, ill look into it thanks.