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    Problem Booting

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by lalalaprise, Dec 1, 2009.

  1. lalalaprise

    lalalaprise Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a dell Studio Laptop 1537 with Windows Vista 32-bit Home Edition...

    Anyway...i turned it on, the dell logo appears with the status bar at the bottom, it seems to stay at that screen for a good minute, than the screen goes blank but the laptop is still on.

    Usually the laptop will stay idle like this until I decide to turn it off...

    No error screens pop up or anything.
     
    lalalaprise, Dec 1, 2009
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  2. pmassey31545

    pmassey31545 Whats the mission sir?

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    No beep codes as errors? If you can check Dells website as they have a "decent" troubleshooting guide you can follow. Or pop your Windows cd in and see if you can get it to boot from cd. If so, run a start up repair from cd/dvd.
     
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  3. lalalaprise

    lalalaprise Notebook Enthusiast

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    I lost my Vista CD *face palm* but I did but a Windows 7 upgrade thinking i could just pop it in and re-install windows and everything would be peachy.

    I popped the CD in...everything is going smoothly, i select to have a fresh install of Windows 7 and it gets to 87% complete and than an error message pops up and says "unable to locate installation sources"

    Im thinking its a hardware issue...i still have 34 days left on my 1 year factory warranty.
     
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