Thanks for the reply. I did install from a DVD. I would guess the black screen lasted for over an hour before I rebooted. I have stared another install. I'm saving the first 1 on 50 gigs. I'm not going to upgrade this time. The weird thing is I haven't heard that the screen is supposed to turn black in the many hours I spent researching this problem. I did set up the users, in fact everything completed on I had a Orbiter menu up and I was exploring when I was asked permission to reboot. Seems to me I tried to watch a channel. When is rebooted only the monitor screen came on, then I lost it too!. Hopefully once I have a working system I can compare logs and configs and get both working.