Guest shollar Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 Hi, I am running windows server 2003r2 x64 - all updates have been applied. The server suddenly began presenting the logon screen with black text on black background - does anyone have an idea how to resolve this? The behavior does NOT occur on the screen saver unlock screen - it DOES happen in terminal server logon screens too. TIA to anyone that can help!
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 Re: Black logon screen! HELP! "shollar" <shollar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C649E271-6861-4E38-8F94-18EF3574E71C@microsoft.com... > Hi, I am running windows server 2003r2 x64 - all updates have been > applied. > > The server suddenly began presenting the logon screen with black text on > black background - does anyone have an idea how to resolve this? > > The behavior does NOT occur on the screen saver unlock screen - it DOES > happen in terminal server logon screens too. > > TIA to anyone that can help! > > > I would try a different monitor.
Guest shollar Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 Re: Black logon screen! HELP! "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > I would try a different monitor. > > > not the monitor. This also happens remotely when logging in to terminal services
Guest shollar Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 Re: Black logon screen! HELP! "shollar" wrote: > > > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > > > > I would try a different monitor. > > > > > > > > not the monitor. > > This also happens remotely when logging in to terminal services To clarify: Once logged in, everything looks fine - I am able to log in because I know the last username and can simply type the password - I can even see the logon screens windows banner, but the background and all of the text fields are black. I can login through TS if I prefill the username/password or if I simply type them blind. I have tried restoring the theme and desktop settings, but they only impact the desktop. Again, the unlock screen has the normal blue background. Does anyone know how to change the background color for the login screen?
Guest shollar Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 RE: Black logon screen! HELP! OK I found and fixed the problem! I copied HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors from a working system In the afflicted system, all values were set to 0 Try it if you ever want to blind the logon screen.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 Re: Black logon screen! HELP! "shollar" <shollar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E8629AE5-2E98-4502-8EA7-A1C66A81A485@microsoft.com... > > > OK I found and fixed the problem! > > I copied HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors from a working system > > In the afflicted system, all values were set to 0 > > Try it if you ever want to blind the logon screen. Thanks for the feedback. I now wonder how this could have happened. Malware?
Guest shollar Posted January 3, 2008 Posted January 3, 2008 Re: Black logon screen! HELP! > Thanks for the feedback. I now wonder how this could > have happened. Malware? > > Well, there is some more background - but I can't imagine how it's related. The problem began while repairing the domain. Our only AD controller crashed and burned. The weird logon screen happened to the terminal server. To recover, we created a new directory, using the terminal server as the PDC. After rebuilding the original DC, we demoted the TS system to a backup. Shortly after demoting the system I noticed the black logon screen. These details didn't seem to apply to resolving the problem, but I imagine there might have been some impact between promoting the stand-alone server to PDC then downgrading it right away. Oh yeah, there was also a directory sync failure somewhere in there along with a DNS issue. I believe the demotion happened before the DNS issue was fixed. Of course, none of that SHOULD have damaged the default color settings, but it's the only possibility I can think of. Anyway - thanks for your help. Believe it or not, your monitor question and my response made me think in a different direction. I was stuck on this thing for over 2 months now.
Guest Simone Posted March 12, 2008 Posted March 12, 2008 RE: Black logon screen! HELP! Yeah i had this issue aswell and solved it using the same article. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=906510 "shollar" wrote: > > > OK I found and fixed the problem! > > I copied HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors from a working system > > In the afflicted system, all values were set to 0 > > Try it if you ever want to blind the logon screen.
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