windows 8 safe mode boot black screen
so this morning I turned on my laptop to find oddly most of my programs missing. I scanned for a virus with avast but 0 infected files were found :l I tried system restore which after 4 hours ended with a blue screen saying your PC has ran into a problem(error was something like IRQL_???_???? didn't write it down :c)I turned on my PC to find it where it had left off and it asked me if I wanted to resume the restoration but since it looked normal I pressed cancel. I ran into the limited connection with Wi-Fi and the Ethernet and it turns I needed to finish the system restore because it hadn't downloaded the drivers for the Wi-Fi and Ethernet. I thought if I ran system restore In safe mode it would finish without the error(after the first error I didn't try again in normal mode to see if it came up again)so I ran "msconfig" and selected restart in safe mode minimal. after I pressed okay it was restarting normally but right after the windows 8 logo(its a MSI logo for me) the screen just goes black. ive tried shift+f8 right shift+sleep mode button, and shutting off>pulling out charger and battery>holding down power button for 30 seconds>plug in charger>turn on didn't work. please if you know anything a fix/temporary solution please comment. 
May 17th, 2013 11:41pm

You have done too many changes and it is nearly impossible to guess the current status.

Standard procedure is based on going to previous restore points until there is functional system.

If you cannot get logon screen, then Last Known Good in F8 menu is the pass to previous working operating system.

If nothing helps, you should starrt from the scratch and restore from good backup and if you have none, then new installation is the only optin.

Regards

Milos

PS: It is a good idea to ask before you do irreversible steps.

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May 18th, 2013 6:36pm

 right after the windows 8 logo(its a MSI logo for me) the screen just goes black

Do you have a second monitor you could attach?   Some have found that this symptom means the OS inexplicably found a second screen to write to and now is not writing to the one you are looking at.   Then another possibility on the same tack would be to try pressing Win-P, CursorUp and Enter as if you could see the Second Screen dialog on the phantom monitor and change its state (or at least cause a refresh on the screen you were watching).  For this case it may help to differentiate about whether what you are looking at is a "black" screen or a "blank" screen.  E.g. whether there is a fringe of light at the border and less than total blackness overall.

 
Also, it is not clear if you can still boot into Advanced Options at all, e.g. using bootable recovery media.  Then you could try switching to Low Res video to get the generic VGA driver instead of whatever driver you are getting now.

 

Depending on your assumptions about what is happening another thing that people have done is use Narrator to navigate around the dark Login screen (and beyond) and actually recover that way.   For example, if you got to the Shutdown button, opened it up, put your cursor on the Restart button and pressed Shift-Spacebar everything might start working wonderfully--just as if you had been able to press the (mythical?) Shift-F8!   <eg>   You wouldn't need to be running Narrator to do that but it certainly would help.  Unfortunately a problem is that activating Narrator is extraordinarily remote in that dialog and you have to dodge your password field without knowing where you started from, (so you might overshoot or undershoot it with the number of Tabs that you try pressing and then start applying Spacebar, etc. at the wrong time.)

 
FYI

 
Robert Aldwinckle
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May 18th, 2013 7:36pm

Hey i am having the same problem as the guy who made this post, I have a black screen with a bright border along my laptop screen.  My screen is blank everywhere except the edges. When i press shift+8 or anything like that it brings up a small loading bar that does not load. Whatever i do it just goes to a black screen with the border. Would you happen to know anything about this or a solution to this problem? Thanks for the help. 
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August 21st, 2013 8:09pm

a small loading bar that does not load

That sounds hopeful.   What you should do is experiment with another computer which has two monitors to understand the possibilities.   Alternatively, change your BCD so you can boot in VGA mode (or safe mode, etc.) to see if that changes what you can see and do.

 
Good luck

August 21st, 2013 11:03pm

I should mention that the most recent idea for fixing this which works for some people does not require a second monitor or much complicated guessing about what they might be seeing there.  E.g. assuming you are starting from either a lock screen or a login screen (with no Ctrl-Alt-Delete requirement for example), you may be able just to press Win-P, CursorUp, Enter (listen, watch and wait) to see if that switches your Display from a hypothetical blank Extended to Duplicate mode.
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