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scottmac112 · 05-24-2007, 12:48 AM

Hello All!

First, my name is Scott. I own this Dell Inspiron 1501 notebook. I have had about 7 years of experience with Windows, but I have never seen a problem like this.

Now, for the laptop's statistics. It has been reformatted and repartitioned about 5 times in the four months I have owned it. Don't know if that has anything to do with it!?

OS: Prepackaged Windows Vista Home Premium (junk!, now running XP x64)
RAM: 1 GB (1,024 MB)
HD: 40.0 GB (30/10 Part. Split)
Wi-Fi
Mozilla All Around, Only Ran IE Once, Never Ran OE
Video: ATI Radeon IGP Xpress 1150
CPU: AMD Turion 64 1995 MHz

I use Streets and Trips, and about five instances of Firefox at once (never had any problems, even on 192 MB and XP Home smile2.gif I can run the laptop about twenty to thirty minutes, and then it will freeze, and then display a white screen with black bars (the bars seem to be animated), but other than that the computer works fine (I just can't see anything that is going on.) Then, when I hard reset, it says that Windows has recovered from a serious error (nothing new to me).

I have tried speeding my fan up, but I don't even know what motherboard is in this thing! Also, I can't very well get the core down past 51C for anything, and I have found that most of it occurs when the thing hits the 60C range. IDK, maybe the problem isn't with temperature!

Please help! I'm at my wit's end!

05-24-2007, 12:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
scottmac112 Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 4 OS: Win XP x64	Dell Inspiron Hang Hello All! First, my name is Scott. I own this Dell Inspiron 1501 notebook. I have had about 7 years of experience with Windows, but I have never seen a problem like this. Now, for the laptop's statistics. It has been reformatted and repartitioned about 5 times in the four months I have owned it. Don't know if that has anything to do with it!? OS: Prepackaged Windows Vista Home Premium (junk!, now running XP x64) RAM: 1 GB (1,024 MB) HD: 40.0 GB (30/10 Part. Split) Wi-Fi Mozilla All Around, Only Ran IE Once, Never Ran OE Video: ATI Radeon IGP Xpress 1150 CPU: AMD Turion 64 1995 MHz I use Streets and Trips, and about five instances of Firefox at once (never had any problems, even on 192 MB and XP Home smile2.gif I can run the laptop about twenty to thirty minutes, and then it will freeze, and then display a white screen with black bars (the bars seem to be animated), but other than that the computer works fine (I just can't see anything that is going on.) Then, when I hard reset, it says that Windows has recovered from a serious error (nothing new to me). I have tried speeding my fan up, but I don't even know what motherboard is in this thing! Also, I can't very well get the core down past 51C for anything, and I have found that most of it occurs when the thing hits the 60C range. IDK, maybe the problem isn't with temperature! Please help! I'm at my wit's end!