Studio XPS 13 BSOD Often

I know people have had issues with the SXPS13 having the blue screen but my blue screen occurs whenever I do a windows update or install a newer video card driver.

I've read posts and none have helped in this particular issue.

This first happened in Vista Home (came with laptop) and bsod at EVERY startup so I boot to cd and installed Windows 7. Ran great until I installed the new nvidia drivers from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com. I read threads where people have had no issue installing them on sxps13's and received better video performance. I guess my question is: should I waste my time battling with dell to receive another lemon unit that will take a month to ship to me again, never ever ever upgrade my video drivers or possibly I don't have a bad unit?

Bad news I'm heartbroken over this nice machine. Good new is this is my first post.

Please give me some feedback on your experiences with this issue or the like.

Specs:
CPU: P9600
4GB RAM
128GB SSD

Thanks

 

Mine freezes when ever i try to get to the device manager. I'm actually a bit disapointed with this. Sounds like windows 7 is still having some issues so maybe try reisntalling Vista.

 

I wouldn't put too much weight into this particular issue considering you're running a beta OS... y'know? If you have the same issue in Vista, it's another story altogether, but definitely don't send it back if the issue is limited to 7.

NICE specs btw! How's the SSD treating you?

 

The issue began with windows vista. I have no idea where to begin to diagnose the problem but I'll revert back to vista and try again.

The short time the system was working, I had cubase working to record music. I did the DPC latency check and have the spikes like everyone else but that didn't seem to affect anything in the recording.

The SSD was worth EVERY penny. Virtually instant read and write (not really, but very fast). Also Adobe AE runs beautifully on this system.

If I can't fix this video card issue, I'll go crazy. I love this machine and hope I'm forgetting something stupid like a "dont crash on windows boot after driver update" button.

I'll reinstall today and post my findings.

 

Success!! I reverted back to vista and now I have no issues. Windows update works and not blue screens and I also have the latest video drivers.

The one thing I did different is that on the driver cd that came with the comp had the important crap like "dell software" and "os tools"...... I was an idiot and though that that stuff was just dell bloat ware. I installed it, just for giggles, and it didn't even install any applications. I did, however, see that in the description on the cd it said "install this first" or something like that. I wont bother to bring it up again and find the exact text, but if someone needs it, I'll type it out. I know someone out there made the same stupid mistake I did.

I'm soooo happy.