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    M1530 with Vista Freezing

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by hill0795, Apr 21, 2008.

  1. hill0795

    hill0795 Newbie

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    My laptop freezes when I'm browsing the web or when I switch from one wireless access point to another, so I have a feeling that it has something to do with my wireless NIC. This happens at least once or twice a day and I have to hold down the power button to force shutdown (the mouse doesn't freeze and I'm able to go to task manager but that's about it). I purchased my M1530 about 2 months ago and this is really starting to frustrate me.. I don't know if it's necessarily a hardware problem and the only reason I say that is because I installed Ubuntu on a different partition on my hard drive and whenever I'm in linux it never has any problems with freezing up or changing from one wireless access point to another. I'm thinking of downgrading to XP Pro as I feel that it might be a Vista problem.. What a pain!!


    Dell XPS M1530
    3 GB RAM
    200 SATA HD
    Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7800 @ 2.80GHz
    Vista Home Premium SP1
     
    hill0795, Apr 21, 2008
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  2. troyman21

    troyman21 Notebook Consultant

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    You could see if it's Vista by going through the list of fixed things on Microsoft's site. But, it's a pretty long list of fixed issues. I guess Vista is THAT flawed!
     
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    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    You've tried updating your driver, etc?

    You could re-install Vista, but at that point it would be just as easy to install XP, so...
     
    pixelot, Apr 21, 2008
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    lgsshedden Notebook Consultant

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    before you do that, try disabling the Trend Micro virus stuff if you have that pre-installed -- on my XPS 1530 there was an incomparability between trend and vista that caused all sorsts of problems -- there is a fix, but for my machine the only option was stripping Trend out completely -- run fine ever since. Downloaded AVG free for virus protection instead.
     
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