Dell Inspiron 1520 Crashing

Quarrybaby

At least once a day my lap top crashes and I get that dreaded blue screen :mad: it's been going on for a few weeks now.

The latest one I got said page_fault_in_nonpaged_area. Another time it said memory_management and sometimes i just get a load of numbers...

I have been on the dell website and downloaded various updates that were available but it is still happening. Also when I put it into hibernation and then start it again the screen resoultion keeps changing on me...??

I would appreciate it if anyone could give me some assistance!!!

MunsterCycling

Smells like a memory error, how old is it?

Quarrybaby

Only have it since February I use an external hard drive, would that have any affect??

MunsterCycling

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/w2000Msgs/6093.mspx?mfr=true

Error info.

External HD should have no bearing on this but does it happen when its not connected?

Run a chkdsk on the HD (follow the link above, I know it says Win2K but it stil is valid info)

If this is happening on such a new laptop then back to Dell it goes, this is something they will have to sort out.

MC

TommyGun

have you added any software or hardware since you got the system?

Tom Dunne

Quarrybaby wrote: »

Only have it since February I use an external hard drive, would that have any affect??

If that is the case, then don't waste your time here - ring Dell.

It can be quite difficult to diagnose a problem such as this via a forum such as this.