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    Studio 1737 white screen bootup & dvd lag

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by evilhead, Oct 17, 2010.

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    evilhead Notebook Consultant

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    Having some weird issues that I can't seem to clear up, maybe someone here has an idea or experienced something similar?

    1) On bootup, after entering the password to login to Vista 64, the screen will hang white for around a minute or two before loading the desktop. No error messages.

    2) Inserting a movie DVD and playing via Widows Media Player, the sound & video will skip, stutter & freeze past the first few moments of video until finally syncing up. Then it will intermittently reoccur throughout the dvd.

    3) Occasionally the entire screen will artifact and a "display driver not working" error box will come up.

    All drivers on the Dell site for this system have been updated, Windows Update cannot find any more updates, and the F12 bootup Diagnostics have all Passed. Not really sure what to do here.
     
    evilhead, Oct 17, 2010
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    Bump

    This DVD playback thing is getting pretty old.
     
    evilhead, Nov 7, 2010
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