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H-Bomb. · 03-09-2009, 05:11 PM

Hi,

I have a Dell D630 laptop and I noticed a few days ago while using for typical use (word documents, surfing the net) the laptop occasionally went to a blue screen and froze. At first I thought it was just some random error. So I restarted the laptop and it was working fine for about a few hours before it froze again and this time it restarted on its own. The laptop freezing occurred several more times (in shorter spans) to the point where I now have trouble starting up the laptop now. Last night I noticed it go to a blank screen just when I turn the laptop on with a bit of vertical lines on the blank screen. The laptop did appear to load briefly before it stops but I'm not sure since I only see the blank screen with very dimmed lines. At this point I can only turn it on and off sometimes in hopes of it actually starting up and sometimes if I'm lucky it does. However I've tried several times today and it no longer starts up leaving me at that very same blank screen with dimmed lines.

Note: Those times it was able to start up after a few attempts of turning it on and off, IT DID NOT have any dimmed lines or any signs of a video card malfunction when its starting up. The lines only appear when its on the blank screen.

I also have not installed anything recently nor has this ever happenned before the last few days. It just started a few days ago and now my laptop no longer starts up (just stays at the blank screen with dimmed vertical lines). I hope you can figure out what can be possibly be wrong with my laptop and if there is any possibility of even getting it started up so I can recover some files on my laptop or will I lose everything when getting this fixed?

Thanks in advance for your help.

03-09-2009, 05:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
H-Bomb. Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 6 OS: Windows XP	Blank screen startup for Dell D630 Laptop Hi, I have a Dell D630 laptop and I noticed a few days ago while using for typical use (word documents, surfing the net) the laptop occasionally went to a blue screen and froze. At first I thought it was just some random error. So I restarted the laptop and it was working fine for about a few hours before it froze again and this time it restarted on its own. The laptop freezing occurred several more times (in shorter spans) to the point where I now have trouble starting up the laptop now. Last night I noticed it go to a blank screen just when I turn the laptop on with a bit of vertical lines on the blank screen. The laptop did appear to load briefly before it stops but I'm not sure since I only see the blank screen with very dimmed lines. At this point I can only turn it on and off sometimes in hopes of it actually starting up and sometimes if I'm lucky it does. However I've tried several times today and it no longer starts up leaving me at that very same blank screen with dimmed lines. Note: Those times it was able to start up after a few attempts of turning it on and off, IT DID NOT have any dimmed lines or any signs of a video card malfunction when its starting up. The lines only appear when its on the blank screen. I also have not installed anything recently nor has this ever happenned before the last few days. It just started a few days ago and now my laptop no longer starts up (just stays at the blank screen with dimmed vertical lines). I hope you can figure out what can be possibly be wrong with my laptop and if there is any possibility of even getting it started up so I can recover some files on my laptop or will I lose everything when getting this fixed? Thanks in advance for your help.