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    M1330 -> Restart/Shutdown/Sleep = BSOD

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by scoobydrew, Mar 14, 2009.

  1. scoobydrew

    scoobydrew Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello all! First of all my M1330 has been serving me quite well lately. I've only had it for about 6 months, but the only problems I've had were the computer getting hot.

    As of last night, when I pressed the power button to go into sleep mode (I always do this before I go to bed), it would pop up a BSOD, and then restart my computer, and pop up a black screen asking if I wanted to reboot in safe mode or not. Anyways, I let the computer start up and tried shutting it down. Same thing happened.

    Any ideas? The only thing I've done last night was go on a few sites, and let my friend install some jailbreak program for his iPod. Can this be it? I tried system restore, but again, everytime I restart the computer, it would pop up a BSOD.

    Thanks!
     
    scoobydrew, Mar 14, 2009
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  2. tjharman

    tjharman Notebook Geek

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    Boot into safe mode, run a chkdsk, run an anti-virus scan.

    What's the BSOD error you're getting?
     
    tjharman, Mar 14, 2009
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  3. scoobydrew

    scoobydrew Notebook Enthusiast

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    Something like Windows has detected a hardware or software problem.
     
    scoobydrew, Mar 14, 2009
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