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My brother has got a Dell Inspiron E1505 with Vista, and last night it started acting fucked up. Basically, whenever we started it, it would just show the loading screen with the bar (albeit with lots of vertical blue lines against the black), then it would go to a blank black screen and sit like that forever.

We tried starting it up in Safe Mode, and it worked (once), but now it does the same as the normal start-up, except with a mouse icon against the black. We also tried "Windows memory diagnostic", using a restore point to the last good configuration, and so forth - but none of them worked. Any ideas?

When it worked, go to safe mode and create another user. Restart normally; it should go to the 'select user' screen and let you in properly and the problem should go away and you can remove the user.

If safe mode doesn't work and you can't boot in at all, no idea.

I'll try that, thanks.

My Inspiron E1705's graphics card blew up a few months ago. Dell said a new model was coming out, and I could wait for it (unkown release date, but it may be out now), or I could get a new one for free, since my warrenty was still good.

I got an awesome Studio with double the stats of my old one.

There are several diagnostics you can run through the DELL Bios that should tell you exactly where the problem is in the startup. Tech Support can walk you through it, or someone here may know what keys to press to initialize them during startup.

Guardsman Bass wrote:My brother has got a Dell Inspiron E1505 with Vista, and last night it started acting fucked up. Basically, whenever we started it, it would just show the loading screen with the bar (albeit with lots of vertical blue lines against the black), then it would go to a blank black screen and sit like that forever.

Vertical blue lines and other crap like that usually indicate it's a graphics or bridge problem.