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Start up -Black screen
When I "start" from a "shut down" or "restart" I get a black screen with white lettering about PC specs. At the lower left is "F1 to Reboot". Press F1 and I get the welcome screen OK. How can I avoid the black screen and go directly to the Welcome??? I'm using Vista with Dell Inspiron 531S.
Black screen with white letters as follows:
1.0.12
Main Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600
Memory Testing: 3079168k OK+ 64M shared memory (Installed Memory: 3145728K)
SATA 0: WDC WD 3200 AAKS - 75133A0 0.3AO1
SATA 1: PLNS DVD+1- RW D4-16A6S YD11
SATA 2: None
SATA 3: None
DISKETTE drive 0 seek failure
Strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility
06/02/2008 - 1.0.12
>>>>>>>>>>When I strike F1, the system reboots and the Welcome window opens.....
fireberd
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Posted February 13th, 2009 03:00
It sounds like the BIOS (setup) is detecting an incorrect configuration or component. Normally that display will indicate what the problem is and then F1 to to reboot or F2 to enter setup.
You will have to look more closely at what it's telling you as that will tell you exactly what is going on. There are several possibilites so post back with exactly what you are seeing. We can suggest what to do to correct it, knowing exactly what you are getting.