[NoodleKnight]

Hi, I'm using a Dell Inspiron 5100 Laptop. Recently my laptop locks up with a black screen after the WinXP logo/boot screen (the power-on self test). I've had that problem before; I was able to boot into safe mode and do a System Recover to an earlier date, and it all seemed fine. But now, I've tried a system recover and it doesn't work.

I've been talking to Dell Support, but most of the fixes they gave me don't work. I believe it's my video card, since I've had problems before with the card, and windows boots fine in safe mode (no drivers loaded, i think). I'm actually running the computer in safe mode right now.

I looked at the Microsoft Support website and an article said it was a fault in either my:Master boot record, Partition tables, Boot sector, or NTLDR file. I have doubts that any are corrupt; I ran Disk Management, and saw that all the partitions are clean. The other fixes require me to use the Windows Recovery Console.
URL: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;314503

I'm confused about what to do... any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.