Graphics Guy
New Member
Hi to all,
I am not sure if this is a problem that Easy BCD can solve or if I have some other problem so please bare with me. I am a newbie with NO experience with the boot system. I recently purchased a DELL Inspiron 530 computer with the VISTA 64 bit operation system containing 2 hard drives. If I leave the computer on for a long period of time without pressing any keys occasionally the computer will either go into the hibernate, the sleep mode or just crash - I don't know the difference and can't find out where to turn the functions off.
My problem is that sometimes when I press the START button on the DELL I get the standard start up screen and everything loads normally, but occasionally - nothing but a black screen with a white flashing pixel at the upper left part of the screen. When I push the button to restart I get the standard start up screen with a listing letting me know that pressing F12 will take me to the boot menu. When I press F12 I get a boot up screen and need to use the down key arrow to select my "c" hard drive in order for the computer to start up. Sometimes this works and sometimes I have to do this several times.
Can anyone give me a clue what is going on or if this is really a boot up problem or something else? Respectfully, Graphics Guy
I am not sure if this is a problem that Easy BCD can solve or if I have some other problem so please bare with me. I am a newbie with NO experience with the boot system. I recently purchased a DELL Inspiron 530 computer with the VISTA 64 bit operation system containing 2 hard drives. If I leave the computer on for a long period of time without pressing any keys occasionally the computer will either go into the hibernate, the sleep mode or just crash - I don't know the difference and can't find out where to turn the functions off.
My problem is that sometimes when I press the START button on the DELL I get the standard start up screen and everything loads normally, but occasionally - nothing but a black screen with a white flashing pixel at the upper left part of the screen. When I push the button to restart I get the standard start up screen with a listing letting me know that pressing F12 will take me to the boot menu. When I press F12 I get a boot up screen and need to use the down key arrow to select my "c" hard drive in order for the computer to start up. Sometimes this works and sometimes I have to do this several times.
Can anyone give me a clue what is going on or if this is really a boot up problem or something else? Respectfully, Graphics Guy
