Greetings everyone 
I have been reading these forums for quite some time, just never registered and posted anything before...
I'll give a breif history on this problem, when I got my XPS2 it was great for a few days, then it started randomly restarting on its own while playing World of Warcraft. This distressed me a little bit, so I decided to let 3dmark loop for a few hours to test stability, it would freeze. At this point I thought it would be a heat issue so I applied some Arctic Silver 5 to the CPU, it dropped my temps considerably but did not help stability in 3d apps. I did try reinstalling the OS a few times (once with my copy of XP Pro and once with XP Home that came with the system), each time I installed the drivers in the order outlined by Dell - chipset and system software goes on first.
Anyway over the next few days stability got even worse, any 3d app would produce a blue screen in under 30 minutes. I didn't really want to wait for a system exchange so I had Dell send me a motherboard (I have DCSE so I replaced it myself).
Everything seemed perfect, I could play 5+ hours of Splinter Cell non stop, hours of UT2004 and Half-Life 2 on end!
Then I tried to play World of Warcraft again.... the system would just restart on its own in under 20 minutes (no bluescreen anymore, just a restart). I checked the event viewer to see if the system logged the crash, alas it did not.
I have since reinstalled the OS two more times with different video driver versions, I have tried the ones off Dell's support site and drivers with modded inf files from laptopvideo2go.com.
I have also reinstalled World of Warcraft a few times....
I honestly can't figure this out. I do have a system exchange on the way, should be here at the end of next week. But I'd really love to narrow this down. I noticed there was one other post made about this happening a while back, but the person seemed to fix it by running driver cleaner and reinstalling his video drivers.... I have tried that a few times and it doesn't help my issue. I also did try removing the modem, bluetooth and wireless, didn't help any.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
XPS2 spes:
Pentium-M 2.13ghz
1gb DDR2
6800 Ultra
60GB 7200RPM hdd
8x DVD RW
Dell Wireless 1350
Bluetooth
I have been reading these forums for quite some time, just never registered and posted anything before...
I'll give a breif history on this problem, when I got my XPS2 it was great for a few days, then it started randomly restarting on its own while playing World of Warcraft. This distressed me a little bit, so I decided to let 3dmark loop for a few hours to test stability, it would freeze. At this point I thought it would be a heat issue so I applied some Arctic Silver 5 to the CPU, it dropped my temps considerably but did not help stability in 3d apps. I did try reinstalling the OS a few times (once with my copy of XP Pro and once with XP Home that came with the system), each time I installed the drivers in the order outlined by Dell - chipset and system software goes on first.
Anyway over the next few days stability got even worse, any 3d app would produce a blue screen in under 30 minutes. I didn't really want to wait for a system exchange so I had Dell send me a motherboard (I have DCSE so I replaced it myself).
Everything seemed perfect, I could play 5+ hours of Splinter Cell non stop, hours of UT2004 and Half-Life 2 on end!
Then I tried to play World of Warcraft again.... the system would just restart on its own in under 20 minutes (no bluescreen anymore, just a restart). I checked the event viewer to see if the system logged the crash, alas it did not.
I have since reinstalled the OS two more times with different video driver versions, I have tried the ones off Dell's support site and drivers with modded inf files from laptopvideo2go.com.
I have also reinstalled World of Warcraft a few times....
I honestly can't figure this out. I do have a system exchange on the way, should be here at the end of next week. But I'd really love to narrow this down. I noticed there was one other post made about this happening a while back, but the person seemed to fix it by running driver cleaner and reinstalling his video drivers.... I have tried that a few times and it doesn't help my issue. I also did try removing the modem, bluetooth and wireless, didn't help any.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
XPS2 spes:
Pentium-M 2.13ghz
1gb DDR2
6800 Ultra
60GB 7200RPM hdd
8x DVD RW
Dell Wireless 1350
Bluetooth
