LOL!! ;D When I was getting shocked the laptop was plugged in, as usual. I never operate on battery. So yeah, then I guess I was the source,...
Well, I looked into the BIOS theory, but the only update they've had since I got the laptop was to correct a bug where the machine would think the...
Hello Faust... I did in fact disable System Restore Services along with System Event Notification Services a couple weeks ago when I was...
I had a thought last night in bed. ;D I haven't had time to scope it out yet but will do so this evening. I'm starting to think this is a...
John: Oddly enough (or maybe not) I read the very thread you linked to last night when I was Googling for problems related to the Systems Event...
An update that my laptop has been working fine with the caveat that I'm continuing to leave System Restore Services and System Notification...
Colin and John: thank you for the suggestions. I did in fact install a fresh, 'known good' copy of Windows from the original Dell CD I got with...
And back through the rabbit hole... jb and John, thanks for your responses. The laptop is out of warranty by 6 months. I'm not sure that it would...
Right. There isn't a cable on this laptop. The drive slides into a bay with a SATA connector that interfaces directly with the SATA interface on...
Memtest86+ results Shortly after my last message I got the same BSOD I had before about a boot volume problem. Knowing what happened last time, I...
PS... Gonna load the DELL drivers and maybe a few other proggies depending on how the thing behaves. Will start memtest when I'm done for the...
I just installed XP on the newly formatted, partitioned drive, from the original Dell CD. A fresh install. Once it finished, I did not add or do...
Hello Colin! Didn't see your post until after I sent the last. Never heard of memtest86+but will go Google it. And yes, I can get into BIOS...
And PS to Colin, I'm wondering you weren't right about it being a power problem... maybe the PSU is wonky.
Well, I couldn't boot into Safe Mode so I never tried the scan from there. It would start to boot into SM, then just hang there after scrolling...
Ah-ha! Well, I wish I had one of those and knew how to read it. :) What I'm feeling is that it has something to do with the MBR/MFT records or...
Thanks for your response, Colin. Don't think it's a PSU problem, but that was a good thought. PSU is quiet as a mouse, and if it were a PSU issue,...
Well, I got a new hard drive and restored my image... am having exactly the same issues. Boy have I had it with this... It looks like the only...
Just an update: I completely uninstalled Acronis, and believe the problem it was having analyzing partitions is due to possible drive errors......
Hello JMK, yes, I restored the only BU I had, which was from 2 weeks ago, just one day prior to doing a slew of MS updates. The system was stable...
Thanks nb47, it was. I made sure all Acronis services were staying enabled. More bizarreness to report. As I said yesterday, after I restored a...
Well, I used Backup XML to restore the Acronis-made clone of my OS drive, and it worked perfectly... the only thing is, the Acronis problem is...
No luck... msconfig doesn't allow me to turn off services selectively, so I used Admin Tools --> Services but it just doesn't feel like this is...
Msconfig worked anyway ..even though it threw an admin error at me, it performed the tasks. So thanks to your instructions, Mark, msconfig...
New problem: In msconfig I followed directions to disable everything but basic services as a starting point, and got an error message that I have...
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