Help Vostro 1500

I have the noise-headphone problem they don't fix this do they?

My main concern is the laptop itself that shutdown and then restarts randomly (It shut down abruptly and then reboot). Have anyone experiences this?

I have a:

Vostro 1500
Windows XP home SP2 (DELL OEM)
T5270 @1.40
1.5 RAM 667
GPU: X3100
Chipset: GM965
DVD-DL RW
120 GB

I can tell when is likely to happen.

1.When I open consecutive tabs (in a short time period) in the browsers (all of them Firefox, IE and Safari)

-When I do that the PC likes to shut down at the moment or after a couple of minutes.

2. When I have been browsing passively, sometimes and sometimes not, the pc just restart.

-Theres no way for me to determine when this going to happen, I could have
15 internet windows open or just 1 and it restarts randomly.

I am yet to determine if is it the lan or wireless, over lan is more likely to happen and over wireless I don't remember well but I think it happens also.

PD: yesterday my laptop couldn't start because of some voltage problem. It said that the laptop couldn't determine the voltage or something like that and since that happened now when the PC starts (boot up) the windows logo starts like slowly and then go normal. I don't know why I'm experiencing so many problems in a 2 weeks old laptop (it can be just the windows?) I can't contact Dell until they transfer the ownership to me, hence I'm here asking to you guys.

What do you think?

 

1.5gb ram? Sounds like you upgraded it yourself (and how come not to 2gb?). anyways, try running mem test on your ram to make sure it is good.

 

ok: 1. lots of tabs cause reboot. overheat? heatsink not seated properly? bios is not turning on fan?
2. voltage problem: bios bad? voltage regulators bad? low voltage causing random reboots/instability?

I think that the bios is not regulating the voltage properly...and low voltage causes instability. high loads like lots of tabs might cause the cpu to reset. (espeically low voltage can trip the reset line on the CPU)

it sounds to me that your mobo or cpu might need replacing. Maybe you should try reseating your cpu, but i doubt that'll fix it. I think the mobo is dead.

yeah, try the memtest first. heh it might crash because of bad memory and/or low voltage

 

It could be power supply too. Do you have another power supply handy? What happens when you run on battery? Did you try running on one ram? Thy all these and let us know. If the problem continues the problem is on your mobo.

 

Well, just to close this old issue. I don't know but the laptop has been perfect after my last format. Now I have Vista 64bits, XP and linux on it. And its run them all like charm, im happy with my vostro xD and replacing CPU when those penryn start to pop out

 

How does this close an old issue? You didn't answer anything but tell us about your operating systems and your wanting to replace the cpu...which are completely unrelated.