So I'm assuming that what you are saying to is that your system is able to power on and boot into safe mode with just the battery, but not normal mode.
This is a very strange issue. I just want clarification.
What does it do when you try and boot to Windows normally on battery power? Do you get any type of error message or does the system simply restart? Any blue screens?
The system passes POST and begins the boot process. I turned on verbose boot to see where it hangs and if I recall correctly it gets either to or just past the boot-time disk check, goes to a black screen, and basically becomes a paperweight :-)
There is occasional disk activity as well. I've let it sit for ~10 minutes and it never finished booting.
(Sorry - all of this should have been in the original post)
Did it just start happenning recently, or has it done this since you got it? I might suggest updating your video drivers or just try running a system restore back to a few days ago to see if that does anything.
It's done it every time I tried booting from battery. I've only had it slightly more than a month.
The video suggestion is a good idea. I'll save a bootlog when I get time to see if it breaks down at loading the video drivers.
I'm running the latest video drivers posted on Dell's driver site. I *could* go to nVidia or laptopvideo2go.com and download newer ones, but I've run into problems in the past running prelease and/or nonstandard drivers. May do it anyway...
I've had the exact same problem. I don't know why, but it seems to be an issue exclusively related to the Dell Performance Video Driver (174.31). Every other video drivers I tried resolved that issue.
On the other hand, a lot of drivers (from laptopvideo2go and the original Dell driver) cause an issue while playing videos with SLI enabled. The only driver I found that can boot properly on battery and play videos with SLI enabled is the nVidia beta drivers (167.51)
Hi, it is not nice to see someone else has the same problem as me (or any problem what-so-ever) but it's conforting to find a solution.
I currently have the performance Drivers and have the not-booting-from-batty problem.
My question is this: With the nVidia beta drivers will I have problems with Blu-Ray playback?
I've tried several drivers from dell, laptopvideo2go, and nvidia, but all of them break Blu-Ray playback because of the WHL, if the drivers are not signed, the movie WILL NOT play.
Can anybody confirm this beta nvidia drivers are signed?
You know - i just installed the thing a couple of days ago and I can't remember. I *think* they are as I don't recall getting the warning message, but I tried so many driver I'm not 100% sure.
stefanrp97
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August 11th, 2008 21:00
So I'm assuming that what you are saying to is that your system is able to power on and boot into safe mode with just the battery, but not normal mode.
This is a very strange issue. I just want clarification.
msamp_
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August 12th, 2008 11:00
stefanrp97
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August 12th, 2008 16:00
What does it do when you try and boot to Windows normally on battery power? Do you get any type of error message or does the system simply restart? Any blue screens?
msamp_
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August 12th, 2008 16:00
No errors, no blue screen, it just sits there :
The system passes POST and begins the boot process. I turned on verbose boot to see where it hangs and if I recall correctly it gets either to or just past the boot-time disk check, goes to a black screen, and basically becomes a paperweight :-)
There is occasional disk activity as well. I've let it sit for ~10 minutes and it never finished booting.
(Sorry - all of this should have been in the original post)
stefanrp97
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August 12th, 2008 21:00
msamp_
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August 13th, 2008 11:00
It's done it every time I tried booting from battery. I've only had it slightly more than a month.
The video suggestion is a good idea. I'll save a bootlog when I get time to see if it breaks down at loading the video drivers.
I'm running the latest video drivers posted on Dell's driver site. I *could* go to nVidia or laptopvideo2go.com and download newer ones, but I've run into problems in the past running prelease and/or nonstandard drivers. May do it anyway...
niklai
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August 13th, 2008 13:00
I've had the exact same problem. I don't know why, but it seems to be an issue exclusively related to the Dell Performance Video Driver (174.31). Every other video drivers I tried resolved that issue.
On the other hand, a lot of drivers (from laptopvideo2go and the original Dell driver) cause an issue while playing videos with SLI enabled. The only driver I found that can boot properly on battery and play videos with SLI enabled is the nVidia beta drivers (167.51)
Hope that helps...
-NiKLai
msamp_
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August 13th, 2008 16:00
fixed it - thanks! I even tried the latest from nVidia, 175.32, and it didn't work. 167.51 did.
stefanrp97
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August 13th, 2008 21:00
draiken k
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August 18th, 2008 22:00
Hi, it is not nice to see someone else has the same problem as me (or any problem what-so-ever) but it's conforting to find a solution.
I currently have the performance Drivers and have the not-booting-from-batty problem.
My question is this: With the nVidia beta drivers will I have problems with Blu-Ray playback?
I've tried several drivers from dell, laptopvideo2go, and nvidia, but all of them break Blu-Ray playback because of the WHL, if the drivers are not signed, the movie WILL NOT play.
Can anybody confirm this beta nvidia drivers are signed?
Thanks in advance
msamp_
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August 19th, 2008 11:00
bnculp
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August 29th, 2008 09:00
Looks like Nvidia drivers 175.32 cause a problem when on battery power,
reported by several others here :
http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=Tech_Talk_XPS_Laptop&message.id=24428