M1210 bootup problem....

My three week old M1210 has performed flawlessly until last night. Usually it takes less than a minute to boot up. So imagine my surprise upon returning to it after pressing the power button 3 or 4 minutes prior to find the system not totally booted up. I could see my desktop picture and the mouse cursor (which I could move around) but that was it. It just hung at that screen. I waited another 2 or 3 minutes, and then held the power button to turn it off. I tried turning it on again. Same thing happened. I booted up into safe mode and ran a checkdisk. No problems found. I then rebooted normally and finally it booted it. I did some web browsing and went to sleep.

So this morning I wake up and try to turn it on, same thing happens again. Only this time when holding power to turn it off, I catch the "This program is not responding" window briefly flash for explorer.exe - Windows Explorer. I'm using the M1210 now, but only got it to boot up after doing the same thing I did last night. Safe Mode - Reboot. Only this time I didn't do anything special in safe mode.

The last time I used the laptop before having this problem I didn't do anything I can think of that would be causing this. The only thing I did for the first time was watch a DVD on it....

Any ideas before I have the pleasure of being put on hold by Dell trying to fix this?

Any and all help appreciated.

 

I think its more of a problem with Windows than your M1210. Reinstalling windows would solve it I guess

 

Do you have an imaging software (Daemon, Alcohol) on it?
These softwares cause an issue with the webcam drivers.

 

Yeah I'm thinking so too after the whole explorer not responding thing. But reformating is a weapon of last resort I really don't want to look at until I've exhausted other options...

BTW: I used hibernate to shutdown a few minutes ago and rebooting worked like a charm.

 

Did you install anything new. also check your drivers

 

Didn't install anything new. All of my drivers are up to date...