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    Dell Studio Instantaneous Death

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by fluffypillow, Aug 25, 2010.

  1. fluffypillow

    fluffypillow Newbie

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    I have a Dell Studio laptop. It cost about $1000 might I add. Out of the box it was extremely slow and terrible at every task it was given. I had ended up returning the same model twice before I finally got one that actually functioned properly. (Still slow at everything) This one is about one year old. So I powered it on the other night. (It took a good 20 minutes to start up as usual) So it went to the desktop, I clicked on the internet and before I had the chance to touch the keyboard. Black, the dreaded black screen. With a simultaneous high to low pewwwwww sound. Oh whatever, it does that when windows is updating, I'll just wait for it to restart. . . . nothing.. hmm.. it probably died. Plug in the charger and the light on the side of the computer appears telling me the charger is in and charging. Alright good to go. Press the power button.. Still nothing.. That can't be good.. So geek squad says.. "RAM problem, take it out, put it back in" So now I'm excited to get my laptop back. So i did as they said. didn't work.. Soooo.. What happened?
     
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    vires90 Notebook Enthusiast

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    do you still have it under warranty? :)
     
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    No the warranty ran out sadly
     
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    vires90 Notebook Enthusiast

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    what are the specs of your computer
     
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    Oh jeeze, I have no idea, usually best buy asks me what I use my laptop for and they point me to a laptop.
    If I had to say I believe its a Intel Dual Core
    Hmmm The RAM i believe is 2 or 3gb. Maybe 4 but I don't think so
    And 250 gb memory I'm almost positive
    and 15in screen
     
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    fluffypillow, Aug 25, 2010
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