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Dell Inspiron 5100 LCD software issue

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by kwixted

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As of Wednesday, my LCD screen has decided to go black after Windows loads. I can see the start-up screen just fine and am currently typing a-la safe mode. At first, I was able to 'trick' my LCD into working by shutting my laptop (putting it in hibernation) and then re-opening it to 'wake' it up. That trick has stopped working as of Friday. I recently reformatted (2 weeks ago) and have been re- installing software here and there. I uninstalled the most recent installations and restored my system to the monday before the problems began. Does anyone have ideas on what may be going on? I feel its a software issue since I'm not having screen problems now.. Thanks for your help in advance!

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by colepole

hi! i have an inspiron 8500 and the same thing happened to me last week. I'm not sure why, but after reinstalling the operating system, while installing the drivers one by one, as soon as the video driver was installed the problem occurred again...so we went into safe mode and disabled the video driver and the computer works fine. I would recommend trying to disable your video driver, and see if it works. It's strange to just have a driver that's been in use for years malfunction--I can't explain it but I feel like it was the source of the problem for me.

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