On Nov 12, 7:38 am, "Don Cohen" <donco...@removelenscap.alltel.net>
wrote:
> Thanks, Stew. With a little luck, it will turn out to be the Brazil power,
> and I won't have to do/buy anything. But if it recurs, the advice here in
> the group will be most helpful.
It’s a laptop. If AC power is insufficient, then it switches to
batteries - and no problems. Also not relevant to your problem and
error code are problems tested by Memtest or the disk drive.
Best diagnostics are from Dell that test each and every hardware
component. It may take an hour. Only the troubled locate hardware
problems with Windows. Dell is one of the few responsible
manufacturers that provide useful diagnostics. Diagnostics available
on the internet, on a provided CD-Rom, and loaded from the hard drive.
Meanwhile, the BSOD message included other information. You shorted
your help of information and therefore only obtained answers base on
'it could be this or could be that' reasoning.
What do the system (event) logs report? Your problems could have
existed long ago. Windows simply worked around the problem. That is
what Windows does and what you want it to do. Just another reason why
Windows is a poor hardware diagnostic tool.
From the little information provide - software tried to access code
it was not permitted to use. Why? Bad software driver? Bad response
from hardware that caused software confusion? All we ‘know’ is the
problem exists and has symptoms consistent with a hardware problem (a
‘it might be’).
Is it a video card memory problem? If making a list based upon
speculation, video controller also should be high on that list.
How to find the problem faster? Do those diagnostics in a 100
degree F room which any laptop must find to be an ideal temperature.
That hot room air is another diagnostic used in conjunction with
comprehensive Dell diagnostics to find such problems. And yes, that
same technique (heat combined with comprehensive Del diagnostics) to
locate the same error code on another Dell Inspiron. The intermittent
error was traced to a bad memory location on the video controller that
today only caused crashed in a warm room and was going to cause more
crashed later in a 70 degree room.
You definitively have a problem. It probably will only get worse.
Provided is how to make the problem hard enough to find it today and
without speculation.
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