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    Dell Studio 1555 crashing etc..

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by T_Sous, Mar 9, 2010.

  1. T_Sous

    T_Sous Notebook Geek

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    I got it in November, sometimes when i go to ANY of my browsers to view pages with flash. The whole browser freezes and crashes, so i start it up again and go to the page, and crash again.. so i try to use another browser (i literally have chrome, Firefox, safari and IE) all of them do the same exact thing.. and once it crashes there's no way to get it back up unless you restart. It gets very annoying having to restart my laptop about 5 times a day. I've done everything, uninstalling flash player, reinstalling it, reinstalling browsers.. I've even reinstalled my OS because nothing else would work. I don't understand why this laptop has so many issues. Randomly freezes, crashes etc. Its basically brand new and i shouldn't have these issues. My old Compaq presario cq60-215dx NEVER ever did any of these thing this Studio laptop does. This laptop is about 400 dollars more than my Compaq.. Also, i dual booted Vista and Windows 7 and Vista is a hell of a lot faster, it boots up faster and never crashes.. It just seems as if Dell did something to this OS to make it a piece.. help?
     
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    Read something somewhere about dis/enabling hardware acceleration which is used by Flash. If its enabled, disable it and try it, or vice versa. Might fix it, not sure why it happens but I remember that being a possible fix; post back let us know how it goes.
     
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    I tried to do that but when i go to advanced settings, then i try to change settings under troubleshoot, the button is grayed out so i can't click it and im the admin.
     
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    Hmmm weeird.. i have to admiit...
     
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    Yeah, im not sure why .. and i still dont know why things randomly crash and freeze for no reason
     
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    You tried calling Dell? or running their recovery tools?
     
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    Yes, when i do chat, they try to fix it remotely doesn't work. They want to send a tech out to replace some parts. I really don't want to seeing how i've had my screen replaced many times due to faulty LCDs
     
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