Had the same problem a few weeks ago. Dell ran me thru the check list and detirmined it was the motherboard. Since MB are next impossible to find, and Dell wants C$650 plus C$200 to install. ti say the least I gave it to my brother to worry about and bought a new 5150. after all isn;t that what Dell wants me to do?
Can't help, I'm afraid, but I had the exact same problem develop with my 5000e this week (except sometimes it gets as far as the windows logon screen before freezing). Have you managed to find a resolution?. My best guess so far is that either the motherboard or processor has had it.
Dell technical support also confirmed that the Motherboard was shot, and they wanted over $1000 to fix it (in Switzerland) so I decided to buy a new computer (and got an IBM Thinkpad R40 for a little more than Dell wanted to fix the Inspiron!)
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November 2nd, 2003 17:00
Can't help, I'm afraid, but I had the exact same problem develop with my 5000e this week (except sometimes it gets as far as the windows logon screen before freezing). Have you managed to find a resolution?. My best guess so far is that either the motherboard or processor has had it.
Regards
David
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November 3rd, 2003 05:00
Dell technical support also confirmed that the Motherboard was shot, and they wanted over $1000 to fix it (in Switzerland) so I decided to buy a new computer (and got an IBM Thinkpad R40 for a little more than Dell wanted to fix the Inspiron!)
Thanks to all of you who replied!
Regards,
Mark