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WSOD upon trying to boot windows 7
Thats right guys white screen of death not blue.
So my friend brought his daughters laptop over
Dell Inspiron 1764
its over a year old and the warranty has gone.
He thinks the fan died and it overheated the processor
Upon first looking at it when first startup always went to the white screen.
I let it sit for a day and now can get into bios and startup sequence normally.
I can go to repair.
I tried that and it said if you've recently plugged in a camera unplug it.
There was a usb mouse attached so i unattached and restart the test.
The last one took 8 hours too conclude they couldn't fix the problem.
Now the white screen doesn't come on until i try to load windows where it hangs at the starting windows 7 screen
Will a clean install fix this?
Or would he have to replace the fan/processor/heatsync ?