Sometimes when I boot up the screen on my Dell inspiron 8500 laptop shows a three quarter size color window and a quarter is blacked out. I can log on but the problem persists. I have gone to the display in control panel to change the resolution sometimes this works but sometimes it turns the screen white and then I'm stuffed. The only thing I can do then is to reboot by holding down the on/off button but then when I boot up again the screen goes white and stays white. After 10 attempts (approx) the screen will go back to normal. I have tried tilting the screen, booting with battery and mains, and throwing it accross the room. I thought perhaps it was something to do with the graphics card, I have an NVIDIA GeForce4 4200 Go (Dell Mobile)display adapter and I think the driver is up to date, perhaps it is the monitor. Pls help, it scares me when I see no reason for it working sometimes and other times it boots with bombalated screen/.
Regards
Giggi G
