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    Inspiron 1520 - Vista crashes on reboot

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by evil204, Nov 21, 2007.

  1. evil204

    evil204 Newbie

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    I got my Inspiron 1520 a few days ago, with Vista Home Basic installed on it. Today, I did a clean install with my copy of Vista Business. I don't know if this is important, but I formatted everything and made 2 partitions in Vista's setup. I didn't use MediaDirect to partition the drive.
    Now, every time I reboot, I get a blue screen of death and Vista crashes. If I turn off the computer and turn it back on, everything works fine, though. This happened during setup as well.
    Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?

    Thanks
     
    evil204, Nov 21, 2007
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    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    could you tell us what the blue screen said?
     
    nizzy1115, Nov 21, 2007
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    evil204 Newbie

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    Well, the blue screen mysteriously went away, everything works fine now. It didn't say anything useful, just had a stop code. Maybe the drivers I installed fixed everything... but when I restarted after installing them, Vista did crash.
    Well... false alarm, I guess.
     
    evil204, Nov 21, 2007
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