Recent content by Matron73

Bumping this back up, just to see if someone else might see and have any ideas. I still can't update video drivers at all, if I do, the laptop won't start. It runs ok as is, I just can't make any adjustments to the display, it's at the highest brightness setting, all the time. I even tried that...

Update: I downloaded Driver Booster, to check my drivers. It found 15 outdated drivers, including the video driver, chipset driver, and a bunch of others. I let it run, and when it restarted, once again, I got to the Starting Windows screen, before going grey and going no further. I did a...

I did the Dell Factory Image restore direct from the F8 menu once, and I did it again from the flash drive the laptop had me make when I got it. I've also gone to Dell.com, had it scan my laptop for drivers that need updated, and the only one it mentions needing is the graphics one, which...

As the title says, I have a Dell Inspiron 5748, that, more often than not, will not boot properly unless I uninstall the graphics drivers. Whenever I start the laptop (or try to bring it out of sleep mode after being inactive for a bit), I'll see the Dell boot screen, then the Starting Windows...

I've noticed over the past few months that, whenever my laptop is jostled much, I get the found new hardware bing bong sound. The only thing connected to my laptop is the charger and a Logitech M510 Mouse. I've tried removing the mouse receiver, and it still makes the same sound whenever I...