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    Please Help with m1330 !!!

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by monksorlo, Oct 19, 2010.

  1. monksorlo

    monksorlo Notebook Guru

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    I bought my m1330 2 and half years ago. It had been a very fast and reliable machine for the first two years, but lately, it has been acting up occasionally.

    it would slow to a crawl once in a while even when I'm just surfing the web and only have Mcfee antivirus running in the background.


    I tried restoring the laptop to factory settings, but the problem still persists.
    Then I installed windows7 hoping that it would speed up the laptop, still to no avail.

    Can you please point me to the right direction???
    I'm too poor to afford another computer
     
    monksorlo, Oct 19, 2010
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Are you getting "AC Adapter not detected" or something along those lines?
     
    Commander Wolf, Oct 19, 2010
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  3. monksorlo

    monksorlo Notebook Guru

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    Sometimes, but not always, I already bought a new AC adapter.
    The laptop still charges tho. And when it gets slow, i tried unplugging the cord,

    the laptop is still slow.
     
    monksorlo, Oct 20, 2010
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  4. Nankuru

    Nankuru Notebook Evangelist

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    Have you tried keeping Task Manager running in the background so when it slows to a crawl you may be able to see a process hogging all the resources?
     
    Nankuru, Oct 20, 2010
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    It is part of the NVIDIA lawsuit.I've had 8 service calls on my XPS M1330.
     
    rlstom, Oct 20, 2010
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  6. monksorlo

    monksorlo Notebook Guru

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    Nankuru:


    I haven't tried that. I guess I have to start paying attention to that.

    Rlstom:

    what lawsuit are you talking about? can you elaborate a little
     
    monksorlo, Oct 20, 2010
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  7. monksorlo

    monksorlo Notebook Guru

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    I checked the task manager and really there's nothing out of ordinary running when it is slow.
    firefox is the most demanding process. I really don't have many programs installed and I don't think it's the viruses that slow down my computer.

    After a couple of minutes, the laptop would go back to normal again.
     
    monksorlo, Oct 22, 2010
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  9. monksorlo

    monksorlo Notebook Guru

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    Could it be that my hard drive is dying?????
     
    monksorlo, Oct 26, 2010
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