Inspiron 6400 Dell

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Has been unused for some time. Fired it up, all settings appear
complete and OK, however several screens - even Software Manager do
not display completely.

Neither Firefox or Internet Explorer are displaying web pages
completely, they come though as if they are in a primitive basic mode,
buttons have lines through them, areas are not coloured that normally
are, etc etc.

I have spent several hours trying to trouble shoot, make changes,
screen resolution, number of colours, looking for drivers/updates etc,
nothing I have done has made the slightest difference.

Some of my regular web sites have been rendered unusable!

Can anyone help???
 
Has been unused for some time. Fired it up, all settings appear
complete and OK, however several screens - even Software Manager do
not display completely.

Neither Firefox or Internet Explorer are displaying web pages
completely, they come though as if they are in a primitive basic mode,
buttons have lines through them, areas are not coloured that normally
are, etc etc.

I have spent several hours trying to trouble shoot, make changes,
screen resolution, number of colours, looking for drivers/updates etc,
nothing I have done has made the slightest difference.

Some of my regular web sites have been rendered unusable!

Can anyone help???
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According to Google, that laptop uses:
Graphics:
- Integrated Intel® Media Accelerator 950 Graphics

but Dell's driver download page shows that it could also have ATI
integrated graphics.

You said you "looked" for drivers, but did you install/reinstall any? I
would try reinstalling the graphics driver.

Since you haven't used it in a while, maybe you could save off anything
(pictures, etc.) you want to keep and then restore the factory image. Most
laptops have the original factory image on a hidden partition of the
drive, and usually have a utility (often found on the CD) to restore it.
 
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