Hi,
My Dell Inspiron 17r SE has major problems booting up once it is turned off, I have been leaving the laptop in sleep mode by closing the lid,
in order to use the laptop, but this is simply not good enough & now since I last shut it down, is no longer booting into Windows.
I have read numerous posts from people with the exact same issue and it seems to me that this laptop has serious boot issues.
When the laptop is booted from a shutdown, I get the usual Dell logo then the screen flashes and remains on a black screen.
I have to force the laptop to power down and attempt powering on several times to try and get it to boot back into Windows 8.
I use my laptop for music production and so have alot of sample libraries & data on my HDD's, I have absolutely no confidence in this laptop
and the number of times I have had to force the laptop to power down, is doing no good to the HDD's and it's really only a matter of time before they fail,
I can already hear clicking noises coming from one of them.
I have updated the BIOS to A15, I have ran pre-boot tests and diagnostics which has given no errors.
There must be a serious issue with this particular model, giving the number of exact same booting issue posts that are related to this laptop.
As already stated I do not have confidence in the laptop at all and want to look at exchanging for a more stable desktop model for my music production.
I have only had the laptop since March and it's a real disappointment.
Any support would be welcome regarding this.
Thanks
Tyler