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    M1330 blue screens with VISTA on restart...but not shutdown

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by vivithemage, Aug 19, 2008.

  1. vivithemage

    vivithemage Notebook Evangelist

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    Basically the issues is in the title. Anytime I RESTART, it blue screens, but if I shut the machine down fully and turn it on it starts up fine.

    It even did it when I JUST installed VISTA 64bit ultimate...It never did this with XP Pro SP3, or SP2.

    Any thoughts?
     
    vivithemage, Aug 19, 2008
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    The problem might be your AHCI. Did you load intel AHCI driver before installing Vista?
     
    imzomnia, Aug 19, 2008
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    I would have thought it would have loaded itself...It is set to AHCI in bios.

    Is there anyway to get an monitor driver for the m1330? It seems a bit grainy compared to XP. The moniter says it is only a PnP Generic.
     
    vivithemage, Aug 19, 2008
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