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    Weird m1330 problem...

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by wonton25, Feb 7, 2008.

  1. wonton25

    wonton25 Notebook Consultant

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    So I just reformatted Vista. Now whenever I boot it up, it displays the windows vista splash screen for about 3 seconds, than it flickers a blue screen for maybe half a second. The laptop will just reboot itself, saying that Vista did not start up correctly. It will keep doing this until I manually power off the laptop by holding down the power button. Strangely enough, when I power it back on, it will ask me if I want to start it with advanced options. I choose to start vista normally and it works just fine. I think this might be a driver issue, but not sure how to go about this, because it will blue screen flicker even when I try to start it in safe mode. any ideas on what I should do?

    UPDATE: When I can start it up, the hibernate and sleep functions work without the crashing...
     
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  2. darthsat

    darthsat Notebook Deity

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    It may be that the Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver was not loaded properly upon install. So there is a chance that reinstalling vista again would fix things. If you were to try this,

    1. Format the desired drive
    2. Install the Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver from a USB drive
    3. Install Vista
     
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  3. wonton25

    wonton25 Notebook Consultant

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    is there any way to repair or install the intel matrix storage manager without reformatting again?
     
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    proficio Notebook Guru

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    There sure are a lot of ... format and reinstall recommendations ...

    Perhaps that is the ultimate answer but the question is ...
    What IS the error?

    Recommend turning off automatic reboot on error first of all
    so you can see what is going on.

    Then, if those are BSOD then there should be minidumps in
    c:\windows\minidump

    If you have some there, then they can be analyzed with
    Windows Debugging Tools like this

    If you simply reinstall without any idea of what happened
    there is fairly good odds it will happen again later.
     
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  5. wonton25

    wonton25 Notebook Consultant

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    It wasn't a BSOD, just a blank blue screen. But darthsat was right, reinstalling the reinstalling the intel matrix storage manager has fixed my problem
     
    wonton25, Feb 7, 2008
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