Monitor went out on Toshiba A215-S4767

Hi I have a new problem
I was listening to music last night and my monitor just died on me....at least I assume it's my monitor that died. The music was still playing but my monitor was just black (not black like it's on and black...black like it was off or hibernating) I restarted my machine and for a split second the Toshiba logo appeared (but it looked distorted) and then my screen just stays black. It doesn't sound like it loads the operating system (I don't hear the ding) but I don't know if that's because I restarted the machine and it wants me to boot into safe mode or do a repair or something or if my operating system has become corrupt because of the restarts or if my video card is the culprit.
My operating system is Vista Ultimate.
Any help would be appreciated.

hi telhack,
to me it sounds like a corrupted os.
install or recover the system again.
if many apps and services are not loaded there is a serious problem...
check your hdd for errors first!
check memory! deinstall the half of it for installation!
btw: you cant upgrade to win7 with a damaged system!
hope you made your recovery disks before...
if you have spyware deleted this can also cause your system to hang - in my point of view your only solution is to reinstall....

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