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I turn on laptop, and see the DELL logo and then nothing but a blank screen.
On those old Dell laptops you can “reset” them by unplugging it, removing the battery, then the RAM, replace the RAM then the battery. This can clear all kinds of minor glitches. However, if the problem is of a more serious nature then you may have to contemplate cutting your losses and getting a new laptop as this one is worth less than it would cost to have it repaired professionally. I wouldn’t work on this laptop if one of my customers brought it to me other than checking for simple way to fix it. I’d encourage them to let me salvage date off of the hard drive in order to move it to a new laptop. Good luck.
just follow these steps this might help you - try restarting your computer in safe mode and after that try restore in safe mode and cut down not wanted software from start up and i also check for viruses and for more visit dell http://www.dell.com/support/home/and after all steps restart the computer lets see if that works for you . gud luck
this can be a step to step fix - first try booting laptop into safe mode restart the laptop and than press f8 and fand select safe mode with networking . remove some unwanted programs and cut down few unused start up programs . than update the windows . for any other step visit FIX laptop screen black computer startup see if this fix the issue . thanks
You can try performing a system restore before you try to install a new OS so for perform system restore is to open safe mode by clicking F8 on start-up and check safe mode option then further a dialogue box will open to ask for system restore and then follow the above steps.
I just had the same problem i was at my wits end , I took my tablet out to my garage and blew all the dirt out of it and to my surprise it works great now….. hope this helps
Reset the cmos battery on mobo, problem solved! If not then switch video cards or use onboard video!
