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    Dell Studio 1555 black screen at startup

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by joshgfeller, Jun 21, 2011.

  1. joshgfeller

    joshgfeller Newbie

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    Recently we put a cd to play in my Dell Studio 1555 laptop and now when you turn it on the screen stays black and you can't eject the cd or do anything. It just stays black the whole time. thoughts?
     
    joshgfeller, Jun 21, 2011
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  2. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    There is no BIOS logo or anything? Was it working previous to when you put in the disc?
     
    atbnet, Jun 25, 2011
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  3. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Hanging on a black screen and you still have video could be a bad file system. Try extracting the drive and hooking it up to another computer, running /chkdsk -r on the drive.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jun 25, 2011
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