Dell laptop weird display after hard reboot

Dell laptop display issue

I was watching a streaming video on my laptop and it stopped responding, I did a hard reboot since Ctrl-Alt-del also didn't help.

On reboot, there's no display, I can see hard drive activity and hear the Windows startup sound, but there a lot of lines on the screen (which change in color, during the boot and window startup process) and nothing else.

The laptop is a Dell Vostro 14" with Intel Dual Core processor,2 GB RAM and a nvidia Graphics Card. It's running Windows Vista. The laptop is 2 years old. I haven't had any problems with the display before.

I didn't come across a similar issue on a Google search and hence looking for an answer here.

Solution 1:

Contact DELL support.

Article: "Dell issues update for...graphics chip glitch" According to the article, Vostro 1400 is on the list. This became public over a year ago. Hopefully your system is still covered.