Arrived today 6400! Interesting to Read!

Hi there everyone

My 6400 arrived today - ordered March 21st - Dell Canada arrived today.

Specs - Duo 2GHZ, 2GB RAM, 100GB 7200RPM HDD, 256MB Display, 3945Bluetooth, Carbon quicksnap cover..........pretty neat.

So far pretty impressed - a little heavier than I expected.

Look and feel - not bad since I am coming from a HP / Toshiba background. The keys feel a little "light" if that makes sense and the mouse buttons feel too "flimsy" but I will live it with it.

However, I got a blue screen of death already ! yup the system was on for about 10 minutes only !

IRQL_DRIVER_LESS_OR_EQUAL was the message - well along those lines!

Anyone out there had this before?

My plan of action now is to reload the notebook - I know there was a posting on the forum with the exact steps. I did order the XP CD as well but I know there were postings on getting media direct to work again etc.......anyone out there who can post me to the right thread.

Otherwise, very very happy with the new toy

Stomies

 

i think this error appears when there is a driver conflict. did u connect any usb devices to the laptop.
i dont think u really need to format because of this error. i'm not sure, but i do remember getting this error on my laptop and i didnot format..

 

I'd love to see pics of it with the carbon quicksnap!!!!

 

Since your early into it all.... why not give the Dell 'restore' function a try and see what that does for you. Ctrl + F11 keys when the www.dell.com 'blue bar' appears [at least for my E1505 anyway]

This WILL destroy any data you may have on the laptop at this point and place you back to the 'as-delivered' state.

I'd try that before digging out disks....

Mark

 

The error was caused by a poorly written device driver. Don't worry your laptop is fine, this is a software issue. Try uninstalling all the junk that came with the laptop. The microsoft drivers that come with windows are solid and HCT certified, usually the 3rd party drivers are to blame.

 

I have received that error message when the CPU cooler died on my desktop.

 

I recieve that message when overclocking my desktop pc into unstable settings. . . there is a chance your cooling has ****ped out, or you have a dud cpu. Check your temps if thats possible any way. . .

 

True, overclocking and overheating can cause memory corruption which can cause major problems for software. Most of the time this error is caused by a lousy driver though.

 

Hi there everyone

Thanks for all the replies. Will do the reload this weekend just to get rid of all the bloatware. Glad that's it a software issue as I would be realky surprised if it was hardware!

Just before the blue screen happened, McaFee issued a warning that a exe - I think it was cm*.* or something was trying to access the net. So I granted access and then the blue screen came up!

Back tracking it looks like the cm*.* driver has something to do with the display adapter.

Pics - will try and put some up this weekend.

Stormies