My husband has a dell inspirion E310. He installed a new hard drive and kept getting blue screens. Last night he thought it might be the chipset so he loaded a wrong one. I tried to tell him he had the chipset for the inspirion 4700 (what the message said) and he hit enter anyway, now the computer boots to a black screen. Is there anyway to recover from this? If I put another hard drive in and reload windows will that help or did he change it at the bio's level?

when you switch on do you get an image on screen - and then it goes black when going into windows? if so, can you start in safe mode? switch on, keep tapping f8 key and when you get a menu select safe mode. it can take a long time to make it into windows in safe mode so be patient. once in windows in safe mode see if you can sort it out. safe mode is a trouble shooting feature where you get into windows without it loading most of the drivers.

I'll try booting into safe mode. Didn't know if I could do that or not. Thanks.