YeloBlammo
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I've had a Dell Inspiron e1705 laptop for a few years.
Never ever had a problem with it. Never froze, blue screen, intermittant slowness, etc. nothing.
I was using it the other night and the screen went black.
Did a hard shut down and brought it back up.
The first thing i see when i hit the power button is a black screen (usual) but there are A's with accent marks randomly placed on the screen (like hieroglyphics everywhere). That lasts a few seconds.
Next XP screen starts loading like usual for maybe 5 seconds.
Next I would expect my desktop to come up, but get just a black screen.
System boots up in SafeMode
I used AVG frequently and a spyware program I forget offhand.
I thought first it may be the video card.
I plugged it into my LCD at work and I still get a black screen instead of my desktop but the monitor also says no signal.
I also tried a system restore for as far back as possible.
That worked. I then used my computer for about a week and then it happened again.
I haven't been able to get it going since. (except in SafeMode)
Any ideas?
This was completely random.
Thanks
Scott
Never ever had a problem with it. Never froze, blue screen, intermittant slowness, etc. nothing.
I was using it the other night and the screen went black.
Did a hard shut down and brought it back up.
The first thing i see when i hit the power button is a black screen (usual) but there are A's with accent marks randomly placed on the screen (like hieroglyphics everywhere). That lasts a few seconds.
Next XP screen starts loading like usual for maybe 5 seconds.
Next I would expect my desktop to come up, but get just a black screen.
System boots up in SafeMode
I used AVG frequently and a spyware program I forget offhand.
I thought first it may be the video card.
I plugged it into my LCD at work and I still get a black screen instead of my desktop but the monitor also says no signal.
I also tried a system restore for as far back as possible.
That worked. I then used my computer for about a week and then it happened again.
I haven't been able to get it going since. (except in SafeMode)
Any ideas?
This was completely random.
Thanks
Scott