I have a Dell XPS 15Z with windows 7 and a Nvidia GeForce GT 525M graphics card and ive been experiencing the black screen at startup straight after logging in which takes around 3-5 mins to clear to my desktop. This has been happening for some months and i haven't really been able/had time to find a solution.
I tried looking at Event Viewer to see what was failing at startup and it seemed that something to do with the graphics card is the problem. Tried System Restore but it was too late to go to a point that far back. I have posted on the Nvidia forums however I've been redirected to the Dell Support Forums.
I have tried the suggestions from my previous post on http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19497323.aspx such as startup programs with msconfig, uninstalling and reinstalling graphics cards, TuneUp utilities but none have worked.
However the problem does not seem to occur at all if i create a test account and log into that, it actually boots perfectly straight into a workable desktop for the test account. So the problem is only limited to my account which is a admin account and was the only account on the laptop before i created the test account to check. Hopefully this narrows it down a bit. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix this?
Many thanks in advance,
shane_mann1
