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    Please help, weirdest thing I've ever seen!

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by CaptainMorgan, May 10, 2010.

  1. CaptainMorgan

    CaptainMorgan Notebook Guru

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    Last night, my M11x took a dump. And, I can't figure out why. I went to open and ppt file and the mouse was moving incredibly slow and then everything went extremely slow. I tried to go to shut down but it was taking a very long time to shut down, in excess of 30 minutes. So, I just held the power off until it was shut down. I went to go and reboot the device and it took 22 minutes to bring back up. I hadn't had the time to mess with it since I was getting ready for finals today. Now that I'm home I just went to turn it on and it is still taking over 20 minutes to boot up. I am very particular about what I have installed as far as software that boots up with windows, and the only things I have installed since getting it (aside from games) is the Orochi drivers and cuda drivers. It has also deleted all of my bookmarks and reset all my setting back to the point as if I just took it out of the box. All of my software I installed is still here. And the drivers. I just can't figure out why this happened (no illegal sites by the way have I visited) or why it is still taking forever to load. Any ideas? Also, if I have to is there a way to reinstall the os without the need of the disc (like a partition already with the stuff)?

    Thanks!
     
    CaptainMorgan, May 10, 2010
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  2. BatBoy

    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Dell DateSafe Local - USB Flash Drive Recovery. You will need an 8GB stick. The rescue image will restore your system to an out of box state. Provided of course you did not perform a clean install and wipe out the partition. ;)
     
    BatBoy, May 10, 2010
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  3. patrickgerry2

    patrickgerry2 Notebook Guru

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    You can try to restore to a previous restore point.
     
    patrickgerry2, May 10, 2010
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    mk1freak Notebook Evangelist

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    may also be a HDD failure, or in process of failing. worth a check in any case
     
    mk1freak, May 10, 2010
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  5. CaptainMorgan

    CaptainMorgan Notebook Guru

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    Thanks. Did just try a restore to a previous point, and still is acting very strange. Thanks BatBoy, gonna try that out now. Oh well.
     
    CaptainMorgan, May 10, 2010
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  6. CaptainMorgan

    CaptainMorgan Notebook Guru

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    Yes, it was! Sending out a tech and new drive tomorrow. What a load of crap. It's barely two months old. Thank God school is over for the semester.
     
    CaptainMorgan, May 11, 2010
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  7. Wiggy Fuzz

    Wiggy Fuzz Notebook Consultant

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    ssd or magnetic disk? could have just been bad luck, neither are supposed to fail so quickly.
     
    Wiggy Fuzz, May 11, 2010
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