Hi ben,

I'm facing a similar problem. A brand new Vostro 1520 with Dell installed Windows 7, including MS Office. I have installed Garmin Mapsource and Polar Protrainer Plus 5 and I get blue screens on start up once every 10 start-up's . So for me it is something I can live with but it is not what I expect from a brand new laptop.

Regards,

Eric

I have the same problem with my month old Vostro 1520.  Once every five or ten bootups i get a blue screen which only displays for a few seconds, not enough to even read what the error might be.  then it reboots and gives me the option of opening in safemode or normal.  I have Office 2007, Norton Antivirus and Quicken installed.  Any thoughts.

The problem still not solve.

The next step is to reinstall Windows 7 from scratch. I will let you know if tat solve the problem.

You might have done this, but be sure the BIOS is updated too.  I cured a recent plague of BSODs on my Latitude with BIOS updates.

Thanks, but I have already did it.

If you are so inclined, you could dig into the memory dump files with the WinDbg tool.  That can sometimes help find an offending driver. Here is a link to get started:

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/how-to-diagnose-and-fix-blue-screen-crashes-595800

Hello,

i have a new Vostro 1520 (got it 2 weeks ago) with Windows 7 Prof. 32 Bit and BIOS A07. I had a Bluescreen-Problem too (with no installed office and antivirus software). The bluescreen appeared short after logon-screen. I solved this problem by installing  the new  ALPS TouchPad driver version 7.4.102.104, A04 from 01/20/2010.

http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=de&l=de&s=gen&releaseid=R252187&SystemID=VOS_N_1520&servicetag=&os=W732&osl=GE&deviceid=16519&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=3&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=17&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=368830

Finally, I did reinstall  the computer from scratch  and the problem is now solve!

I don't know exactly what was the problem.