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Hi. I'm a relative newbie and my system occassionally will startup by briefly
showing auto-detect:digital on the monitor just as it normally does, then the
monitor screen willl just go dark for a second or two, then show a grayscale
with horizontal lines between the shades, then show a grayscale without the
lines between shades. This process will continually repeat itself,
alternating between these three screens. A few times I have heard the chiming
tone sound Windows uses when my computer user/password screen usually comes
up, but the screen continues to only show the alternating screens I
described. I have to resort to powering off with the main power button in
order to get out of this, and then restarting with the power button again
(usually it will then startup and work properly). I have tried running
diagnostics accessed by pressing F12 during startup but have no indicated
problems. A poster to the Dell Forums reported the same problem but no
solution was given and I've received no response to an inquiry to the poster.
I've tried different troubleshooting diagnostics Dell has suggested with no
luck. Could this be a Vista related problem, or any other ideas on the cause?
Thanks for any help. Corey
showing auto-detect:digital on the monitor just as it normally does, then the
monitor screen willl just go dark for a second or two, then show a grayscale
with horizontal lines between the shades, then show a grayscale without the
lines between shades. This process will continually repeat itself,
alternating between these three screens. A few times I have heard the chiming
tone sound Windows uses when my computer user/password screen usually comes
up, but the screen continues to only show the alternating screens I
described. I have to resort to powering off with the main power button in
order to get out of this, and then restarting with the power button again
(usually it will then startup and work properly). I have tried running
diagnostics accessed by pressing F12 during startup but have no indicated
problems. A poster to the Dell Forums reported the same problem but no
solution was given and I've received no response to an inquiry to the poster.
I've tried different troubleshooting diagnostics Dell has suggested with no
luck. Could this be a Vista related problem, or any other ideas on the cause?
Thanks for any help. Corey