Hello,
I'm expecting some problems with my m1530:

1. Just after I bought it I found out that when I pressed Dell Media Direct it started booting to Media Direct but it's not loading.. well it seems drivers were loaded but something was not starting after - just black background (lcd was working, it's black colour)
So I decided to reinstall my Windows and did it - and Media Direct is not working (followed steps in handbook) ..so I gave up.


2. But last month I found in System Log:

Windows (2508) Windows: A request to write to the file "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb" at offset 9674752 (0x000000000093a000) for 8192 (0x00002000) bytes succeeded, but took an abnormally long time (10692 seconds) to be serviced by the OS. This problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem.

..few times a week after system start from sleep mode.

Then a week later joined:

 

Faulting application svchost.exe_SysMain, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x47918b89, faulting module sysmain.dll, version 6.0.6001.18000, time stamp 0x4791a770, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00004c12, process id 0x44c, application start time 0x01c9198c70f5a9d6.

 

The Windows Audio Endpoint Builder service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 60000 milliseconds: Restart the service.

(and few more services connected with svhost)

 

3. I decided to reinstall Windows. And again that same error (gave up with trying to install Media Direct):

 

Windows (2508) Windows: A request to write to the file "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb" at offset plah plah for plah plah bytes succeeded, but took an abnormally long time (plah seconds) to be serviced by the OS. This problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem.

..so I thought it's connected with hdd and it's "click clack" sound when it's idle (sometimes it went idle mode when system was booting!)

Gues what happend then, first BSOD - "IRQ NOT LESS OR EQAL", a week or two later second BSOD - "PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA".

I encouter more errors connected with app crashes, mostly few hours aftercold start with a "sleep" break.

I ran:
 - Dell Diagnostic Utility with extended scan - no errors
 - Windows Memory Diagnostic - 1 pass - no errors
 - Memtest86 - 3 passes default settings - no errors
 - WD Diagnostic - full hdd test + SMART - no errors

Any IDEA what's going on - I have not much time to call Dell support for a technican these days (what will I say, no detected problems with diagnostic utilities but laptop crashes?).

 

System hw/sw spec:
T7250, 2*1024mb RAM, 8600M GT, 250GB WD hdd, BT+EDR, Intel 4965 agn, BIOS A09, windows home premium, all freshest drivers available on dell download (suitable for my system ;-)), all available updates for windows, eset smart security (firewall + antivirus).