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Inspiron keeps shutting down
I have an Inspiron 1100, 512megs of memory and plenty of hard drive space. The computer is just over a year old. It will repeatedly shut down at times. It might just be sitting there running, not being used or I might be using it. It doesn't matter what program I am in, it will just shut down. I do not have any screen savers running, and all power managment features are off. Several weeks ago it made some strange noises, sounded like it was coming from the hard drive. The noises have stopped though. Any suggestions?
- I have an Inspiron 5100 that has just started doing the same thing. A friend in the states said he had the same problem and it was a design flaw -- requiring him to return the system to dell for a refit.
Mine shuts down and retarts without a problem and without tellng me that the system was inappropriately shut down. Yours too?
Have you found a solution to your problem and do you have any advice? I do not see the diagnostics anywhere on the computer. When I insert the cd with the diagnostic utilities and click on delldiag.exe, which I assume will run the diagnostics, I get an error message "D:\DIAGS\DELLDIAG.EXE C:\WINDOWS\STYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose Close to terminate the application.
Is this the proper way to run the diagnostics. If not what is. Thanks.
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Posted May 24th, 2005 18:00
probably has the same problem like my stupid dell 5100. --> heat sinks fan.
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Posted May 22nd, 2005 00:00
Clear out the heatsink of accumulated dust.