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    Inspiron 1525 - Blue Screen - Memory? - HELP!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Nursing_Student, May 24, 2009.

  1. Nursing_Student

    Nursing_Student Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have an Inspiron 1525. About 1-5 times a day it either shuts down unexpectedly (no warning whatsoever) or I get the "blue screen" which says "Memory Management." It does get a little warm but I use a Targus Chill Mat so that really has helped, it used to get extremely warm! I have only had the computer about 10 months and feel like I have treated it like a child!

    Someone told me to go to Windows Task Manager and look under Performance. I have never done that before but just did. I don't know what this stuff means.

    Physical Memory:
    Total - 2037
    Cached - 1135
    Free - 43 :eek: :confused:

    Kernel Memory
    Total - 139
    Paged - 74
    Nonpaged - 64

    System:
    Handles - 18270
    Threads - 772
    Processes - 64
    Up Time - 1:07:58
    Page File - 1214M/4311M

    CPU Usage: 0-15% (Constantly varies of course)
    Physical Memory: 53%

    Sorry if some of this info is useless. None of it makes sense to me.
    If you have any idea what is wrong or what I can do to fix the situation I would be most thankful!

    (I just ordered an HP HDX18t and should have it in a couple of weeks :D but I am a student and would like to keep this as a well working back up for travel)

    **One more question that doesn't really pertain to this. Upon start up my laptop my wireless card doesn't work and I have to "find out why there are no wireless network signals in range" and then it says there is a problem with my wireless card and I click on the button to repair... which it does in like 2 seconds and then it's good to go. I'm glad it still works but I can't stand not knowing why it does this. Any ideas?**

    Thanks again :)
     
    Nursing_Student, May 24, 2009
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    dAdE0H0 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just download Memtest86+ and make a bootcd.

    Run it for a couple of hours if it errors out then our memeory is most likely bad.
     
    dAdE0H0, May 25, 2009
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