Windows 7 Black Screen? -

I had XP as my OS using all the partition of my hard drive. I downloaded Windows 7 just to my desktop and ran it. It downloaded fine but when it starts up the color orb intro runs through and after that I get a black screen with quot;Windows 7quot; in bottom right corner of the screen. I went through a few forums and they said to hit F8 and run in a low-resolution mode but when I do that my monitor doesn t recieve a signal. I m at a loss here.

Are you saying you see no task bar? The Windows 7 in the bottom right is actually a permanent feature. If I drop this page now, I see a bluish screen with a picture of some sort of mammal in the middle and my icons as normal down the left side. Not really sure what you mean by installing it to just to your desktop. I installed my Windows 7 onto a spare partition and it is working fine

Sounds like your pc is not ready for Windows 7. Not sure what happened. Maybe reboot, go into Safe Mode and see what you can find out.

Do you have a second monitor plugged into the computer? Is this a laptop or a desktop? If you have a second monitor, remove it and reboot. What is your graphics card?