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    Dell 1501 Locking up

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by danielrp, Mar 9, 2007.

  1. danielrp

    danielrp Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a refurbished Dell 1501 and I have had it for about 45 days. Often, the screen locks up and displays as shown in the attached file.

    Why is this happening and what can I do to fix it?
     

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    danielrp, Mar 9, 2007
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    vespoli 402 NBR Reviewer

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    Looks like a NMI memory error to me.

    Look into running a program like Memtest86.
     
    vespoli, Mar 9, 2007
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    danielrp Notebook Enthusiast

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    Are there any other programs I could run? This program has to be run from a disk and I do not have a drive.

    Thanks.
     
    danielrp, Mar 11, 2007
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    You don't even have an external cd-rom drive or anything? You can run memtest in windows as well, it's just not as effective.
     
    mZimm, Mar 11, 2007
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    danielrp Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a CD Rom but it says I can only run this from a floppy.
     
    danielrp, Mar 11, 2007
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    Any further help?
     
    danielrp, Mar 12, 2007
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    Can anyone help, it is getting worse. I cannot use the program above because I do not have a floppy drive and it requires that.
     
    danielrp, Mar 15, 2007
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    I ordered 6 Dell Inspiron 1501's for a small business office in July 2007, and they all have periodic lock ups where the screen is just a bunch of vertical lines. These are AMD TL-60, 1G ram, 120G HD, WinXP Pro and MSO7 as ordered from Dell. I tried to get it to lock up on me just now, but of course I am not doing anything mission critical right now, so its fine. I will post a pic asap.

    In the meantime, has anyone else seen this issue, and if so, is there a fix from Dell? I also ordered some Vostro 1000 units (same config but it black) but they are TK-53 based, and I have no issues with those.
     
    ad869, Dec 28, 2007
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    Shampoo Notebook Deity

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    My sister bought one of these over the summer because it was so cheap and she's had the same problems on Vista.
    I'm in the process of installing XP right now, but having major issues with the optical drive.
    When copying files over from the windows cd (all genuine) I keep getting errors that a file is corrupt or error copying it over, when I used the same cd to install windows on my desktop just fine.
    Thinking about sending it in for RMA, but it's such a pain in the buttocks process.
    Anyone else having issues installing an OS through the optical drive?
     
    Shampoo, Jan 6, 2008
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    Nevermind. Made an image of the windows cd and it works just fine now.

    Did a really slow burn process, and now it works just fine so I'm guessing this optical drive is really sensitive. Jeez.

    As for the lockups they all look like a really bad driver issue or lockups because of overheating of the GPU.

    I wish I could take it apart and take a look, but of course that would void the warranty.

    Jeez.

    I'm going to try third party drivers, instead of the ones provided by Dell.

    I'll get back to you guys.

    So, so far problems on this laptop for the lockup is both Vista and WinXP.

    Edit:: Oh yeah, I ran memtest 1.7 on this sucker (boot cd) and it ran one pass just fine, so I stopped it there, but I think I'll let it run for a few hours overnight to see what happens.
     
    Shampoo, Jan 6, 2008
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