Inspiron E1505 Cold Boot Issue

Hi

I just got my dell E1505 about a week ago. I have one problem, which i hope is a driver or software problem. Anyway, if i boot it up for the first time after a few hours or a day, the problem I get is that nothing appears on the screen. I only see the hard drive running. Theres no DOS, no dell logo, no windows XP bootscreen logo. Then all of a sudden I see my desktop load along with the mouse pointer. That only happens for the first boot. When that happened once, I got the blue screen "windows is shutting down to pervent damage." That happened once, I haven't seen it happen again since then. Juss every time now I boot my notebook from a cold boot, it occurs.

I've tried to reformat it, flash the bios and update the drivers, i still get the same issue. I have no idea whats going on.

I run windows XP media center edition

here are the specs to my notebook:

Intel Duo Core 1.86 CPU
1GB (512x2) RAM
60 GB Hard Drive
Intel 945GM graphics
15.4" widescreen

I hope its some kinda software issue. This notebook is only a week old. Thnx for your help

 

Sounds like hardware [graphics card or lcd screen] to me. Appears that the boot is proceeding fine, just that you can't see it. I'd think that for some reason there is some delay in the power being provided/accepted. In a warm boot situation, the power is already 'flowing' so you don't see a problem there.

Just a guess though....

vr

Mark