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    oh gosh, not a random restart again!

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by aan310, Jan 8, 2009.

  1. aan310

    aan310 Notebook Virtuoso

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    well, a while ago i made a thread because my m1330 randomly restarted, no BSOD, no warning.
    It just happened again now... i was just reading engadget and it just restarted, no BSOD no nothing...

    my mobo isn't going, is it?!
     
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    Maybe it's the windows update doing it's automatic update and restarted to finish the update? o_O That happens to me sometimes
     
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    no, i was totally up to date, and it notifies me before it restarts. That, and it diddnt say any new updates installed, and when it shut off, it didnt do the normal shutdown procedure, it just went black, then to the bios loading
     
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    was there any message about heat when you started?
     
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    nope, and my laptop was doing nothing but sitting on the internet looking at engadget... and it was cool to the touch...
     
    aan310, Jan 8, 2009
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