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post #41 of 47
1/11/07 at 10:49pm
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Originally Posted by DELL-Machina
Basically its windows on a CDrom (No HDD needed) with testing tools however ever after I swapped out my desktop IDE cable and used a different DVD Drive I had the exact same issue that was present with CPU usage spiking at 20% with nothing running!!! All the parts tested going into my sisters desktop confirms th parts are good sans the motherboard. Go fig huh?

so after formatting+swapping components, the problem does'nt go away?
Does the diag specifically tell you that there's something wrong with the motherboard?
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post #42 of 47
1/11/07 at 10:51pm
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Originally Posted by galahad05
Event Viewer (or Alert viewer) would show what the OS thinks is going on. Though I admit it's hard to decipher sometimes.

Other than it possibly being IDE-devices-running-in-PIO-mode, or one of the things I posted about previously, I'm pretty much out of ideas.

haha yeah that's where I'm at also
Thx for your help though
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post #43 of 47
1/12/07 at 12:22am
np: that's what we're here for.
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post #44 of 47
1/12/07 at 12:28am
Okay, in making a post in another thread in this forum regarding a problem a little like yours, I just had a couple of (hopefully good) ideas.

http://www.notebookforums.com/post25...ml#post2532910
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post #45 of 47
1/12/07 at 7:20pm
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I'll probably try formatting and then call up dell, even though this one never had any warranty
Just in case anyone is interested in this weird situation, there's another oddity I just discovered (don't know why I didn't know about this before).
I get an annoying "pop" on the right side of the headphones whenever something's playing. (This doesn't happen when nothing's playing)
This laptop just can't stop pissing me off
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post #46 of 47
1/12/07 at 8:29pm
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Originally Posted by galahad05
Video cards are supposed to be able to share IRQs...but I've seen some have problems with it--both Nvidia and ATI cards can have this problem. And, here's the kicker: it's been stated before (can search via google "video card irq sharing") that the Big Three of don't-dare-to-share are the video card, sound card, and the Ethernet NIC.

Check your BIOS settings, and see if you can play with things there. Also you can try the "uninstall"/"reinstall" method I mentioned before--for the NIC and/or the video card. Hopefully the OS would pick different IRQs than before.

Also, I believe that there's a way to semi-manually force irq selections in the OS--I'll have to look it up again.

EDIT: You might be able to do the same thing by updating to the latest and greatest sound drivers--I presume you're using the onboard AC97 sound? You should be able to updated drivers for this (usually from Dell's downloads section).

As I was going through the posts one more time, I noticed the "edit" part which I did not before.
I uninstalled current audio driver and reinstalled. And my problem's solved!
Thank you very much
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post #47 of 47
1/13/07 at 2:55am
Hey, glad things worked out for you!
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