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    XPS M1210 Boot Up Problem

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by seoul_suicide, Dec 1, 2006.

  1. seoul_suicide

    seoul_suicide Notebook Guru

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    I keep having a boot up problem every now and then on the XPS m1210. I have Windows XP Media Center Edition. Sometimes when I start it up, all goes fine until the part where it's supposed to show the blue "welcome" screen and just blanks out. The screen goes black and thats it. So i turn it off by pushing the power button for 5 secs and restart it after a minute. It comes up to a screen where it asks me how I want to boot XP up. There's about 5 options (forget all their names) but none of them work and just blank out except 1- "Last known good configuration (and then there's something in brackets which I forgot)". This problem does happen a lot even though I can't even remember what the other options said :D I just started it up 10 minutes ago and the same problem happened yet i can't remember...

    So anyone have any ideas? If knowing the other options is really that important ill reboot it again and again till it happens and take a pic of it or write it down. Please help.
     
    seoul_suicide, Dec 1, 2006
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  2. gridtalker

    gridtalker Notebook Virtuoso

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    Reinstall windows. It seems like your files are corrupt
     
    gridtalker, Dec 1, 2006
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  3. canonyau

    canonyau Notebook Consultant

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    yeah this has happened to me once too. I could move my mouse around and see the cursor though. but then nothing else. Probably a windows problem
     
    canonyau, Dec 2, 2006
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  4. moutonnoir

    moutonnoir Newbie

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    I asked essentially the same question a few days ago: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=90531

    Your version of the same problem leads me to conclude it may not be a D-tools issue alone. I see this problem all over the place, yet no definitive answer. I'll keep looking, and hope someone has a solution...maybe even Dell ! Imagine that.

    Good luck...I'll post anything I find.
     
    moutonnoir, Dec 2, 2006
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  5. rt2

    rt2 Newbie

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    same here guys, should i uninstall d-tools and the problem will be solved?
    thanks
     
    rt2, Dec 3, 2006
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  6. FusionZ06

    FusionZ06 Notebook Consultant

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    Still looking for a resolution - D-Tools is not installed on my machine :(
     
    FusionZ06, Apr 1, 2008
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