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peterclewis
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April 27th, 2005 18:00
Inspiron 5150 repeatedly freezes while booted up
This problem just started happening last night. I was going about my normal routines on the computer when the thing freezes all of a sudden , and would not respond to any mouse movements or keyboard combinations such as Ctrl+Alt+Del. I held down the power button for a few seconds to turn it off. After rebooting, the computer worked fine for maybe two minutes when the same thing happened again. I tried using the computer with direct power and with the battery in, and neither way seems to affect it differently, I still have maybe a two to five minute window before it locks up again. I doubt this is a heat problem as the fan seems to be working and I left the computer alone once overnight before trying to start it up again.
Does anyone have any suggestions before I open her up and start messing with RAM and such?
Does anyone have any suggestions before I open her up and start messing with RAM and such?
- please seelots people has same problem
- If your having the 5150 shuts down on boot or when touched problem, this post I've been putting everywhere may help.
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I recently had the "5150 shuts down when bumped" problem and after some searching around I found some instructions here:
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/43678/
I followed the advice, with the exception that I didn't pull my laptop apart, I did it all just by removing the C panel and the wireless card.
Its been working perfectly for a couple of days since and I updated the post above with my own steps. It took me 10 minutes from removing the C panel to putting it back on again, I've been carting it around while it's running and I can use the palmrest again without fear, it has not shut down once since I performed the repair.
Hopefull that will be of some assistance to people. Its certainly cheaper then paying Dell for a new motherboard.
rgds
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jankerson
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Posted April 27th, 2005 21:00
Get some canned air and blow out the vents to be sure.
Run a disk cleanup.
Defrag your Hard drive
Run a CHK Disk.