How to Fix a Black Screen on Windows 10 (5 Easy Methods)

The dreaded black screen (or black screen of death) can happen for any number of reasons in Windows 10 - from loose connections to faulty graphics drivers. Here we’ve gathered some quick fixes showing you how to fix this age-old problem.

This tutorial applies to Windows 10 desktops and laptops (and some of the fixes apply to Windows 7 too). Below are the methods we’ll be going through (with timestamps):

0:48 Obvious Stuff - cover the basics first
1:13 Windows outputting to wrong monitor
1:49 Windows reading wrong monitor port
2:23 Misinstalled or Buggy Graphics Card Drivers
3:35 Bonus method: Overclocked monitor?

AMD GPU drivers

Nvidia GPU drivers

How to Overclock Your PC Monitor (MTE)

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[angelvillalobos]

How could I go through windows safe mode if I CANT SEE ANYTHING BUT BLACK IN THE SCREEN?

[MrNAPPYBOY]

Thank you so much man!! I listened to this video about updating my driver and it made my screen black for what felt like eternity. I just switched the hdmi to another port and that worked.

[aleksandarprekajski]

For me it was the fact that my second display has a resolution of 1440x900, and my main is 1080p. My main was trying to be shown on my secondary, and my secondary display just said "input not supported" in the middle with a black screen around because it's old. The Win + P fixed my issue. Thanks!

Thank you for the video, but I have a problem which is not on here, sadly. My monitor just goes black for about 1-2 seconds then comes back on again. It's been doing it for a few days and is completely random when it does it. I have changed the HDMI cable in case it was that, but to no avail. Have you any tips, please?

[Yuujiji]

How am I supposed to access anything for the screen if its stuck on standby

[timothynguyen]

I have a DELL curve monitor and currently using DP chord. Randomly when i’m browsing, the audio of the screen and the graphics goes off and turns black. I’m currently trying a HDMI chord to see if it helps

[Banterghini]

What do you do if you have no other hdmi ports to try and change it to that because my pc won’t connect to anything after I updated my windows and I tried different hdmi cables as well as dpi but it didn’t work

[educationalchannel]

I replaced my old psu and gpu with better ones and when i boot it gets to the welcome *username*, then it loads a bit and black screen.
also the booting is very slow like 2 mins
Anyone has any idea?

[richarddrawsstuff]

Thank you for the tips. I pressed windows P. When i change to a different screen modes, It would show work on every mode except on the extend option.

[bblitefootbilly]

mine wont let me go into safe mode after down loading gpu driver... screen goes black after dell logo i can enter bios tho none of the repair or restore work i don't know what to do or what could be the cause its looking like ive lost windows as a result tho the system is fine as i had ubuntu live cd working on it. any ideas how to solve my issues?

[haileyiscool]

I've been using mine for as long as I can remember and there was no problem but then later on I had to keep turning the screen off and on just to turn the whole computer on, the monitor was fine and then one day the computer wouldn't stop pressing the letter "C" so we shut the whole thing off. I've got it out again 1 year later and the monitor still works, I can hear the fan sound but the screen... it's black when it's off and then it lightens to a darker black, so it changes color a little bit but doesn't turn on... Can anyone help?

[TragicHamad]

Thanks. I had this problem and fixed it by disabling G-Sync through NVIDIA. Whenever I play a game that has fullscreen turned on, it would just turn to black but disabling G-SYNC fixed it.

[tobbebergman]

01:16
Thanks -That made me find my primary monitor and eliminate a reboot !
But I still don't know what is causing Windows 10 to randomly only find the extended monitor ?
Both my monitors is on BTW !

[hackeem]

Hi my rca cambio 2 in 1 laptop tablet got a black screen because I messed with the bios.
Do you know a way I can fix it?
My device has no cmos battery.

[certified_tableflipper]

GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL!! My GPU came in and has been causing me trouble with the black screen. I tried your HDMI method and put the cable in the GPU along with the win+p and it finally worked. Thank you so much!

[hujax]

I have 3rd problem. The monitor, that is not working is on DVI cable, while in Nvidia Control Panel it is shown on VGA port. I had this issue before, and was able to fix it with unplugging/replugging DVI cable. But after recent Windows Update it doesnt work anymore. Method with Win +P doesnt apply to me, because my GPU has only 1 DVI port (1HDMI 3DisplayPort), so I do not have another DVI port to try on. If I completely uninstall the Nvidia driver, monitor works, but only until I install GPU drivers or Windows does it. How do I make it recognize my monitor on DVI, not on VGA.

[adamcyz]

Sometimes while im moving my mouse when left mouse key is pushed, screen turning black at area where i moved mouse, and i have to restart pc to repair this, any ideas where is the problem and how to fix it?

[WhyNot-sbvx]

So my laptop when I turn it on after it loads goes to a black loop screen where it stays there and when I try to do any system thing it requires a password, I use a pin, so it shouldn't be doing this, and I have been putting in my Microsoft password and have reset the password many times.

[VisnitchiRaul]

If I uninstall the video driver, the image apears, but it autoupdates the video driver and the image disapears again. If it doesn't update the video driver and I install the video driver, the same thing happens. It just works with no driver. Whyyy?!

[joshssnakecatching]

mt second monitor goes black every 3 minute, then comes back on, changed cable, changed monitor, also tested it on another pc, do you know why? cheers