Until recently my Inspiron 15R (running Windows 7) would not allow a Windows 10 upgrade. It would say that Dell had not certified this device with Win 10 due to BIOS issues. About a week ago I had to do a complete "bare metal" Windows re-install so took that opportunity to download all the latest drivers and the latest BIOS. I didn't think any more about it until today when it popped up and asked if I wanted to upgrade to Windows 10. I figured I would get the same "can't upgrade" message but decided to go ahead and try. To my surprise it downloaded and installed Windows 10.
However: I can boot and log into Windows 10 and can see my desktop for about 5 to 10 seconds. Then the screen goes black. I can see (and move) the mouse pointer but nothing other than the mouse pointer shows on the screen.
I figured it must be an incompatible video driver (although as I said, it does display the desktop just fine for a few seconds), so decided to boot into SAFE mode to see if I could resolve the issue. But the exact same thing happens when I boot into SAFE mode. I see the desktop for a few seconds and then it goes black, with nothing other than the mouse pointer being displayed.
Any thoughts on a resolution?