Posts by Kinsman

Found this reply from a moderator on the Dell support forums: "To narrow down the problem, we need to remove all of the devices we can off of the system. That way, we can tell if it is a component causing the problem, or the...

Discovered that it doesn't seem to happen on mine if I go into standby, only if switching back on from a complete shutdown, and then only intermittently and usually when it has been left for a few hours or more.

Let us know what happens PCK!

You can rule out third party RAM, as I have 1 Gb of Dell RAM. I'm going to try reseating a few things today to see if it helps any. As I say, problem is that it's intermittent - so just when you think you've nailed it, it shows up again

I've been experiencing this problem too - thought it had gone away, but it has 'resurfaced' recently. It seems that quite a few people have been complaining about this recently, not only on the DELL support forum, but also...

I was having problems with the harddrive heads parking too regularly, seemed to be causing slowdowns in some games, so I turned the APM up into the 'performance' region of the bar and that seemed to solve the problem. I no longer get the...

I was fortunate enough to have Norton Ghost on CD, which is bootable. So I extracted the downloaded file, burned it to a CD, booted from Norton Ghost CD and ran the utility. Perhaps you could boot from your XP CD and then run the...

If your drive is a Hitachi you can download the 'Feature Tool' from here: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm and use it (must boot from DOS) to turn down power-saving and turn up performance.

msauper: did you try reseating the memory chips yourself? It'd be cool if you could 'fix it' before the tech showed up

Check this thread: http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=28363 and see if any of the solutions listed there work! Be interested to know if you come to any resolution