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In December of '07 I purchased a Dell Inspiron 1520...January, I received my brand new laptop and began enjoying my new freedom...Then came April. Long story short, my three month old laptop got a new motherboard, three new memory sticks, and two new hard drives, all of which could not save it. So Dell sent me a replacement which I received the first week of May. It is now nearing the end of May and it looks like I will need to get a SECOND replacement. The network card has to reset itself everytime I turn the laptop on (though this problem corrects itself in the first ten seconds of startup, so it doesn't bother me too much). The display driver is messed up. Both of these problems were noticed at first start up and I have spent the past few weeks trying to fix them. As far as the display driver is concerned my screen will do one or more of the following: flickers, freezes, goes black, strobes, windows go black, taskbar goes gray, windows show nothing but red,orange, and white static, and on one occasion the computer actually restarted itself...all of this is followed by a message saying the driver stopped responding and corrected itself. I have read a few forums where others have had a similar issue. I have updated the driver to no avail. I spoke with a friend of mine who is in charge of the IT department of a major company (my trusted computer god) and he seems to think the problem is purely hardware, not software. He thinks that because of the randomness of the problem (nothing seems to trigger it, it just happens) that there actually may be a faulty physical connection.
Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions would be most appreciated...I would really rather not get stuck on the phone with Dell for another two hours.
Curse of the Inspiron 1520--tell me what you think
Discussion in 'Dell' started by Emry, May 25, 2008.
