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I have a Dell Latitude laptop that will not boot. NT was just loaded on the drive. After the OS loader runs and the NT boot screen appears the laptop stops responding,the little dots never appear on the screen. I have to pull the battery to get it to turn off. Any ideas?
Name: XP DOC Date: July 9, 2002 at 07:34:51 Pacific
Reply:
It looks like you have the wrong Display Drivers installed. Try if you can boot the machine in VGA mode. Once you have logged on in VGA mode, check your Video Driver. Some Video Drivers need to have at least SP4 installed before they will work probably.
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