Dell M1330 boot fail

Hi all,

I have very recently installed W7 7100 64bit with little success. I can use the M1330 for about 20 minutes and then bam..... the lappy will turn off and when I try to turn it back on I get nothing but a weird white screen. Not even the dell boot screen will appear.

When I first installed W7 it found all drivers but due to this issue I have sought to change a few key drivers. Such as, the nVidia 8400 drivers and I have updated the SATA drivers to R154198

My specs are:
- 4 GB of RAM
- 2.4 CPU
- 200GB HD; 7200RPM
- nVidia 8400 Video card

I have heavily searched the net with no joy. please help.

cs3110 said:

Hi all,

I have very recently installed W7 7100 64bit with little success. I can use the M1330 for about 20 minutes and then bam..... the lappy will turn off and when I try to turn it back on I get nothing but a weird white screen. Not even the dell boot screen will appear.

When I first installed W7 it found all drivers but due to this issue I have sought to change a few key drivers. Such as, the nVidia 8400 drivers and I have updated the SATA drivers to R154198

My specs are:
- 4 GB of RAM
- 2.4 CPU
- 200GB HD; 7200RPM
- nVidia 8400 Video card

I have heavily searched the net with no joy. please help.

cs3130

FIRST hi and welcome to SF. we need a ton more info in order to narrow it down. Was it a clean install, 32 bit or 64, etc. We could help you much more quickly if you filled in your "my system specs" in user CP. If you search you can find instructions if you need them.
Do you have sleep or hibernate turned on, or maybe a screen saver.

Again welcome
Waiting on much more info

Ken

Are you dual booting or did you replace your previous o/s ( Vista?)

Anything come up if you try Safe Mode ( tap F8 repeatedly during POST)

No i didn't set it up for duel mode. I just totally replaced Vista.

its very hit and miss. It actually turns on and works great every now and then. BUT..... when it fails (and it fails most times) I dont get any options at all just that weird white screen straight from turn on.

Actually, do you think that W7 could have fried my video card??

cs3110 said:

Actually, do you think that W7 could have fried my video card??

I really doubt it. it would be the first time i have seen it.

ken

Well, I have just got off the phone from dell and it looks like the Video card is dead. Looks like the install of W7 was the final straw for this old lappy.

Video card is getting replaed free as it is a known problem with the M1330.

Thanks again for all your help guys

hi man...
i got the exactly same system as urs and installed with Windows 7 recently... and i had come to the same problem as you...

even worse... cause my m1330 just falling out of warranty 2 months ago.

this windows 7 really fried up the system?

I also got the same issue this morning - Looks like mine is also dead, bought mine in Feb 2008