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BobV
I'm not sure this is the correct newsgroup, but hopefully someone can offer
some help. I've been trying to help my sister out and can't seem to figure
this out. She recently purchased a new laptop from Dell (Inspiron 1501, AMD
Athlon 64 X2 with 1gb ram) with Vista on it. Among other problems she's had
was this problem of the machine randomly just going blank and freezing up in
the middle of doing something, or even if it's just sitting there not doing
anything. I suggested that we install XP on it since I think it's a better
OS without some of the issues Vista has right now. Ok, so I just got
finished installing it for her (well, earlier today), as well as the XP
drivers for her hardware that I downloaded from Dell's website for her
system. I turned her loose on it, and before long she was experiencing the
same problem. Now, there's not a whole lot on the machine right now--just
the basic OS + SP2 and all the updates from Windows Update; the video,
audio, and network card drivers (both wireless and 10/100 integrated NIC);
Norton 360; and the Roxio Creator and MyDVD 9.0 software for the DVD writer.
In view of this, what could possibly be causing this machine to frequently
and randomly just blacking out and freezing up. Any advice would most
certainly be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob
some help. I've been trying to help my sister out and can't seem to figure
this out. She recently purchased a new laptop from Dell (Inspiron 1501, AMD
Athlon 64 X2 with 1gb ram) with Vista on it. Among other problems she's had
was this problem of the machine randomly just going blank and freezing up in
the middle of doing something, or even if it's just sitting there not doing
anything. I suggested that we install XP on it since I think it's a better
OS without some of the issues Vista has right now. Ok, so I just got
finished installing it for her (well, earlier today), as well as the XP
drivers for her hardware that I downloaded from Dell's website for her
system. I turned her loose on it, and before long she was experiencing the
same problem. Now, there's not a whole lot on the machine right now--just
the basic OS + SP2 and all the updates from Windows Update; the video,
audio, and network card drivers (both wireless and 10/100 integrated NIC);
Norton 360; and the Roxio Creator and MyDVD 9.0 software for the DVD writer.
In view of this, what could possibly be causing this machine to frequently
and randomly just blacking out and freezing up. Any advice would most
certainly be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob