Help! Dell Inspiron 1150

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Hey i have been having problem with my dell inspiron 1150 for about a week now. Out of nowhere i started getting blue screen of death messages first i got was

"a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevernt damage to ur computer
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
if this is the first time uve seen this stop error screen, reestart ur computer. if this dscreen appears again, follow these steps:
check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed. if this is a new installation ask ur hardware or software manufacturer for any windows updates you migh tneed
if problem continues, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. disable BIOS memory options such as chaching or shadowing. if you ned to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart ur computer, press f 8 to select advance startup options , then select safe mode

Technical information:
Stop :0x000000A (0X8780c4ab, 0x000000002, 0x000000000, 0x805500e7"

this would appear out of nowhere while i was running my computer. I would then have to turn the computer off and I couldnt turn it back on again. I mean i pressed the button and i would hear stuff but I couldnt see anything. When i pressed the button to turn it back off it would turn off right away, I wouldnt have to turn it down.

I later started getting other error messages

""Page_fault_in_nonpaged_area"

and some others

Anyway I reinstalled windows and the blue screen of death went away, but I am still having problems.

Id like to note that before i reinstalled windows i tried unscrewing my computer to see if there were any loose parts. I couldnt get all the screws out so that didnt work, and I put the computer back together again. I still feel like it is not screw*ed in tightly because i can kind of lift the top a little bit, so if this is what is causing the problem, please tell me

Anyway the problem: After a few minutes of using the computer, the mouse and keyboard die on me. I cant move the mouse or type anything. I have to turn it off. When i try to turn it back on, the same thing from before happens. I hear some noise but I cant see anything on the screen. I turn it off again and i dont even have to press down for a while, it just shuts off. If i just leave it alone and dont try to turn it off, it shuts down by itself.

Someone told me i might need a new fan, but my computer doesnt feel hot at all. What could possibly be wrong with my laptop? Im really upset its only a year old and the ethernet broke a couple months ago too.

ejn63 · Answer

Run the extended Dell diagnostics on the RAM and hard drive.

bebewood · Answer

i ran it. actually i cliked the 'download' button and my computer restarted. now i cant even reinstall windows. it says there is not enough memory. first it says tthere was a problem with my mouse, now its saying somehting about the memory...

bebewood · Answer

Edit:

Okay so a couple more things happened. I went to dell.com to try to download a diagnostic utility here http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/devices.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&SystemID=INS_PNT_P4_1150&os=WW1&osl=EN#

I don’t remember which one I clicked on but as soon as I clicked I got a fast blue screen and my computer restarted. Then I got the following screen

“ Exception occurred in module mouse.mdm file “kbd_rout.c” line 213!

Fatal error TNT. 10049: Out of Stack buffers, CS: EIP are in error values:

Err Values= 000000008h 000016E1h”

I restart

Later I get

“Timer chip counter 2 failed”

When I restart the computer, and press F2 or F8 I get

“Memory Address line failure at 1FEE20EO, read 00000000 expecting 111111

Memory write/read failure at 00DE46E0 read 31DE31DE expecting 31DE31DE

Decreasing available memory

Memory Address line failure at 0021158, read 8A2E50CB expecting FDFDFDFD”

Then when I run the PIC functionality test I get

“opcode exception occurred at selector 18 offset”

When I run setup I get and check the memory it says

“system memory=512kb”

Could my memory be bad? Or maybe the computer is not reading the memory right? Whats going on? I cant even reinstall windows now!

cmasupra · Answer

If your PC is turning on, and you don't mind losing all your data, try doing the following, in order: Click 'Start -> Run' Type 'cmd', without the quotes Hit 'Enter' If the text doesn't say 'C:\>', then type in 'cd C:\', without the quotes, and there is a space in between 'cd' and 'C:\' Now it should say 'C:\>'. Type 'format C:', without the quotes This should make it ask you if you are sure that you want to format your disk drive. Type 'y' or 'n' If an error message comes up saying that there is a volume open/in use, then I can't help you there, because I tried to format my old laptop's disk drive so that I could throw it away without anyone getting my data. I couldn't get it to stop saying that, so I found that breaking the laptop in half and banging the hard drive to death does just fine. But anyway, I can't help you after that.

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