[lukas4405]

A week ago whenever my laptop would start the screen would go completely black after the windows startup splash page. The computer would only completely boot up in VGA or Safe mode. I tried a System restore with no luck. I downloaded and reinstalled the video driver but that didn't work either. Then I completely formatted my laptop and reloaded windows XP. I started to load the drivers off the Dell CD and after I loaded the Video driver I would get the same result on startup. Right after the initial windows splash page the screen would just go black. The Laptop is a Dell Inspiron 600m with an ATI Radeon 9000 32mb video card. The computer works fine now that I uninstalled the video driver but I can only get slow video without my video driver being installed. The warranty just ran out on the computer and it is barely 2 years old. I looked up the info on the video card on other websites and the info I got was that the card was soldered onto the motherboard. Does anybody have any suggestions? Is my video card dead? Do I have to replace the entire motherboard now? Please help I would really appreciate any input. Thanks in advance.

Luke

[burnthepc]

Try and download the latest ATI drivers from http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

[lukas4405]

I tried downloading a fresh driver from the ATI website but it didn't work. When I try to load the driver I get an error message that says "critical error, driver not found!" then it tells me to load a different application. I follow the prompts and I get another error message telling me to load a standard VGA driver first. Then in the bottom right corner of my screen I get prompted that new equipment has been found in my computer and its the VGA driver. I load it and get the exact same results as before which is when the computer is rebooted the screen goes black right after the windows splash screen. Can anyone suggest anything else. Please help.

Luke