Windows 10: black screen of death is fatal

Have an ancient Dell laptop that was working great til got black screen of death. Got Stop Code: Machine Check Exception message. Ran advanced troubleshooting, restore date, remove latest update, restore files. All went well but when it comes to computer restarting it won't. Goes to home page, DELL appears, a quarter of a circle appears that should revolve as it loads but it sits there doing nothing. Can't access settings or anything as screen frozen on that page. Running Windows 10.

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Black Screen Of Death

The Black Screen of Death is caused by a Display driver issue.

 

Almost Black Screen of Death?


Okay, so my sister was trying to watch a Blu Ray DVD in my computer last night, but of course it didn't work. She ended up watching a normal DVD and it was fine. After she finished, I turned off my computer normally. This morning, however, I tried turning on my computer and it gave me the normal code screen thing with quite text and a black background. This time, instead of booting normally it said "Press [Esc] to boot... (instert countdown here)" I waited and didn't press anything and it just came to a screen that was almost black and almost blue. The cursor didn't pop up and when I pressed Crl, Alt, and Delete it went back to the white text code screen. I attempted pressing Esc like it said, but it all led back to the almost black screen of death.
I called my one of my family members for help because they are a tech guru, and they suggested unplugging everything (which I had done and proved unsuccessful), taking out the RAM and putting it back it, and still nothing. They then suggested pressing F8 when I boot up my computer, and it comes to the pop up window with two things to select. One that's called Sata and the other that's called CD or something. I tried selecting both of them, but yet again, the almost black screen of death.
After my several attempts, my family member told me to try to safe reboot using the CD we have saved for my computer as a backup. There was no DVD in my computer during all these attempts.
Was this caused by the Blu Ray, and any ideas on what to do? Thanks!

 

The Black screen of death with cursor

Hi Gregory,

I appreciate the troubleshooting steps you have tried to resolve the issue. Follow the link below and perform the troubleshooting steps suggested.

Troubleshoot black screen problems. Do let us know the status. Thank you.