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Laptop Lockup

Asked by maninblac1 in Miscellaneous Hardware, Hardware Components

Tags: 9200, inspiron, locks

I have an Inspiron 9200 Laptop and it locks up intermittently. It's been having this problem for a month now, and i haven't been able to resolve it. Here's what's going on so far.

We upgraded the memory because performance was bad 512 -> 1GB. The lockups started after this.

I initially did a once over on the memory with memtest. It passed the first pass, it was good enough for me. After the lockups i ran it all night and found out the memory was faulty. So we returned it, i put new memory back in and ran it all night again it passed all the passes.

Knowing the machine was suffering from windows rot, i reinstalled XP sp2 from scratch. It still was locking up, so we said hmmm, and put the old memory back. The lockups stopped, but then returned again. So we've eliminated the memory problem, it's caused on both the Dell (memorex) memory and the Kingston memory, the Dell also had problems detecting the new modules i eventually coerrced it to take the new memory. I've ensured they are correct and compatable proper speed voltage and memory layout, it's not a case where i bought the wrong RAM.

So then i thought....motherboard, so i ran the Dell motherboard diagnostics to see if there was something faulty with the motherboard, all tests passed, this was a one pass test. The DVD drive failed an eject test and so we had that replaced, (that was difficult to get them to bite on it but i fought enough to make them send me a new drive). I thought it might be HD so i put hitachi's drive tools on it and ran the advanced scan and it passed.

Now the machine locks up and blue screens, i'm going to take Passmark's Burn-in software and try to hardcore abuse it for a day or two. Is there anything that could be causing this i haven't thought of other than the motherboard?

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Laptop Lockup

Asked by maninblac1 in Miscellaneous Hardware, Hardware Components

Tags: 9200, inspiron, locks

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