For the past few weeks, when I power up the laptop, after it comes up with the Dell logo splash screen, it goes to a blank screen and refuses to go further. Normally, the "Starting Windows" status bar would appear at this point, followed by the Windows 2000 splash screen before it proceeded to the desktop. I now have to shut the power off again one or more times before the status bar appears and the laptop proceeds to bootup. Sometimes, it is once, sometimes more - it is a random number of times. I have reformatted the entire hard drive twice, to no avail!!
TIA.