Press DEL on startup and select "last best known config that worked" If that doesn't work you have probably corrupted the Win registry.Will need to take back to store, beware that if its a software fault you will have to pay and may lose all your data n the HDD!!!
Testimonial: "Luckily I had no corrupt windows registry and all my data is safe. Another solution (switching of several LAN-controllers) did the trick."
My apologies for not getting back to your response. I glad cbacer was able to help you. I you have this problem again go to this sitehttp://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/341...
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I have also tried to turn it of, unhook the power cable, wait for the green led at the back of the Vostro to go out, wait for 15 seconds or so, hook up the power cable again and pressing the power-on button again. This has made no difference.
Do you have the Operation Disc XP, Vista, Windows 7 witch ever one is installed on it?
Yep. The OS is Windows 7. The disc is titled "Operating system" and subtitled "Reinstallation DVD Windows 7 Professional 32-bit". It also says: "Already installed on your system". What to do?
I bought two almost identical Vostro's, so I have two of these disks. Can't tell the disks apart. Is that a problem. Probably not.
Hm. I put in this Operation Disk and pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del, waited for the startupscreen with Dell-logo, pressed F12, selected CD/DVD as boot system and pressed enter. Same black screen with cursor appeared.
I also have a disk called "Dell Resource Media" on which it says "You must boot your pc from this media to run diagnostics". Sounds helpfull. I will do that now.
Selecting the boot device CD-DVD also does not make a difference when the diagnostics cd is in there. After selecting the boot-device and pressing enter, directly the same black screen with the blinking cursor appears. The boot options are "HDD:P0", "HDD:P1"", "CD-DVD", "USB: Dell ..", "USB: WDC...", "Pre-boot system assessment" and "Boot utility Partition". I have also tried all the others, one after the other. The result is the same for every choice: directly the black screen with the blinking cursor.
n the f2-setup I tried several options without improvement:
- at "CPU-configuraion" I disabled every option, so the CPU is used in the most simple operational status; no solution
- Disabled "Quick boot", so it will not skipp any test; no solution
- at "Integrated LAN controllers" I disabled everything; Hurray!!! I see my windows screen again. Can't use my keyboard anymore. Okay, reboot and F2 and switch on the USB-controllers. Solved.
Strange: I can reboot and enable all LAN-controllers again and the Vostro keeps running fine. So no clear cause is to be found.
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