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E510 Goes Black When Desktop Comes Up
I have a Dell E510 that has been running Windows 7 Ultimate fine for a
while. I put it on the shelf in October 2015, and brought it back out last night. I forgot the password, so I used the Dell supplied OS disk, went into repair, and used the sethc.exe method to reset the password: http://www.howtogeek.com/96630/how-t...otten-windows- password-the-easy-way/ This worked, but now the monitor power light goes from green to orange (power saving mode), the keyboard lights go out, and the mouse light goes out. I can hear the power supply fan still going. Thinking it may have been a problem with the discrete video card, I removed it and set to use the onboard video. Same problem. The problem also exists in all Safe Modes. Funny, though, as long as I don't enter my new password, the thing stays on. That is, it will sit there forever asking me to enter my password, but as soon as I do, everything goes out either immediately after hitting Enter, or a few seconds after the desktop comes up. I've tried a different monitor, too, but same problem. Any ideas? TIA |
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