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    Inspiron 1525 restart

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by bobertbarker, May 13, 2009.

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    bobertbarker Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok, so I just bought the Toshiba dynadock and it works great! With a usb video card, I have 3 monitors running at once. I'm running Vista home premium Service pack 1. I have had a few problems though...

    1. When restarting, the shutting down screen shows up, but nothing happend. The screen just shows Shutting Down with the spinning circle, but doesn't fully restart.

    2. My screen resolution on my laptop monitor changes back to low quality. I want it at the highest quality, but whenever I open the lid, the screen flashes and is back in low quality.

    3. I unplugged the dock, without using the eject button on top of the dock, and my screen went crazy. It flashed on and off about 9 times.

    4. My desktop icons are all over the place when I turn my laptop on. They were on the left monitor, then the right, then scrambled and not in order. I refuse to have to change the resolution and move the icons back in order every time I start up.

    So, any thoughts, anyone. I really need help and any answers are appreciated. Thanks!
     
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    ok, new issue. When I open my computer, it says my name and my icon, the one that you click on to get to your desktop, but not the whole screen is showing, the bottom right corner is black. Help, im virus scanning now.
     
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    it isn't happening anymore, but problems 1, 2, 3,4 are still going on. Now, my volume doesn't work. The monitors now work perfectly, but my volume doesn't work and theres this icon in the tasktray that is 3 blocks in a pyramid, the blocks say H, F, and C. When I click it, the bar that comes has 1234 as an option and then 5678 as an option. What is this? I did a virus scan and it came up negative.
     
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    Bump, anyone???