[mrcaptainbob]

Good way of describing it, Troy. "More of a problem". Yesterday, when Windows was loading, there's that multi-colored activity bar just below midscreen.....well, the multi-colors were staggered from in that block to almost the side of the screen. When finished, the whole screen lit up with vertical stripes. Really weird. Just by chance, I found that moving the mouse would 'clean' the screen to appear normal. Well, I thought I was on a good path with that too and did an honest shutdown/restart. Nope. Goes back to black screen at startup again. So I guess it's time for a call to Dell support to find out what other ideas they may have. Followed all the stuff in the book with no affect...