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    XPS M1530 Locking Up...Thoughts/Ideas?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by mmukalian, Oct 24, 2009.

  1. mmukalian

    mmukalian Notebook Geek

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    Hey guys, this started happening a couple weeks ago, and is now becoming more frequent. The lappy is locking up, not a BSOD, just locks: no mouse movement, no KB response, nada. A hard shutdown (power button press/hold) and then a restart brings it back, but it happens again almost always.

    I'm running Win7 64-bit, 8GB of RAM. I've been noticing the undercarriage getting really hot as well. Would anyone know of/have experience w/that as a potential issue?

    I'm also downloading the most current nVidia drivers...186.81. I am currently running with 186.03. I'm hoping this helps.

    Anyone else have ideas? Any input is greatly appreciated. Thanks! - M
     
    mmukalian, Oct 24, 2009
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