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    Inspiron 1520 crashes

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Gary_Berg, Dec 2, 2008.

  1. Gary_Berg

    Gary_Berg Notebook Enthusiast

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    I got an Inspiron 1520 back about a year ago. I've found that it tended to crash about every month or so; typically I'd come back to it and find it saying it couldn't find a hard drive to boot.

    System is running Vista 32 Home Premium, SP1. I wiped the Dell install and installed Vista from the supplied media and driver DVD.

    I was sitting at it today when it did this. First symptom is it seems locked up; no response to keyboard or mouse. After 30-45 seconds it bluescreened momentarily (and I saw acpi.sys in the lower-left corner). Then it tried to reboot, and was chugging away at the HD until it got the no HD error.

    In the reliability monitor it shows as a "Disruptive Shutdown".

    I've just set my system to not automatically restart, so I may be able to get details later.

    Any ideas
     
    Gary_Berg, Dec 2, 2008
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