End Program - Sample on Inspiron 600M

I have a similar problem. When I shut down the program goes to Sample, and displays end program window. It started happening recently. Previously when I shut down the computer used to shut down without displaying this window. I could not locate the program that does this. Where did this Sample come ffrom?

Thanks for any help.

Rajkumar

Greetings

What we found out for this 600M was that some sectors of the hard drive had been corrupted.  We backed up all the important datas; Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Address Books, Bookmarks, etc. to CDs and had to install a new hard drive.  The problem eventually got worse and worse and the system would not even boot.  We tried to do a recovery by fixing the sectors using the hard drive scan disk, but that really killed it.  SO, recommend doing a full backup, maybe even image your hard drive to an external using Acronis.  This was our situation,replacing hard drives are never fun, but if you image all your drives it makes it a bit easier.

Best of Luck

Hello and thanks for the inputs.  We used scan disk recovery to try and resolve the issue and what finally happened was the hard drive failed.  Good thing we had backups for most everything.  For our situation, the End Sample error was an early warning the hard drive was failing.  We did an image of the C drive using Acronis and a Fantom external drive (total cost of $165 including the software) and that makes life much easier.

Aloha

I recently encountered a similar problem with the End Program - Sample and continual rebooting.

A few days ago I updated several Dell suggested drivers for my Inspiron 600m - Radeon 9000, IntelPro Set (can't recall the exact spelling).

At first I tried disabling the Radeon driver, which didn't help - once I deinstalled it I no longer rebooted and could run in normal mode. However, the End Program - Start continued on shut down.

Once I deinstalled IntelProSet, the End Program - Start disappeared and its been smooth sailing.

I also tried disk cleanup and disk defragmentation. Still the END PRGRAM - Sample messge persists. I hope some one will come up with an answer. The main disadvantage is that you cannot walk off after clicking SHUTDOWN since the computer goes to the end program screen and it requires key board input.

Raj Warrier