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August 12th, 2018 03:00
Dell Precision T3500 Weather Problems? 1-2 error
Hi
I am using a dell T3500, It's my second one.
Last year around this time,(monsoon in Karachi) I had my older t3500 replaced because of similar problems.
What happens is: Firstly just one regular morning, your computer won't start. And will give to amber power button with 1-2 indicating lights error. Press power button a few times(or a dozen) and it will come to life. And will work normally until late night(even when shutdown for hour long breaks at different times in the day) and even run heavy games.... Until the next morning, when it will do the same thing and "refuse to wake up".
And again, pressing the power button over and over - or pushing the "power supply check button" can help "wake it up for the new day".
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Often after turning on successfully, it will complain about some "thermal event" before boot sequence- Which doesn't make sense, as it worked fine in heat wave days/In middle of the day during gaming/And this rainy weather is kinda cold.
I have cleaned the motherboard with the toothbrush and a blower, but it doesn't do a lot.
All these "wakeup problems" are followed by programs like chrome shutting down mid session, the typical ram blue screen when doing anything heavier. Or often the system crashing and rebooting without notice.
Which is where I am now.
Right now, I am in windows safe mode and writing this. its been more than a hour without crash. however chromes shuts down in safemode too if i open too many tabs
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Next step of the deterioration that I foresee, is going to be bluescreens and restarts at the very start of the windows.
Has anyone got any idea why this is happening? Or what things in specific on the motherboard should I be "cleaning"
NOTE: My accessories; rams(four 2 gig ones), processor and GPU etc are the exact same ones that I pulled from my last year's T3500, I just put these all in the new t3500 that i bought and it worked like a charm. All was well during winter months and the June heatwaves. And now in the monsoon it is doing the exact same thing the last one did in the last monsoon. Or it can just be a coincidence?
Madlid
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August 12th, 2018 23:00
After the blue screens and crashed(which even made their way into the 'safe mode'. I ran the inbuilt diagnostics, the ones that show up when you start the PC.
It found a problem in memory. (error 2000-123)
So I placed the modules back in one by one. Removing he stickers(that had significant dirt under them) and cleaning them with toothbrush.
After I put them all back in, and they didn't seem to cause any more problems in the said memory test. And blue screens disappeared, and the system worked A+, even ran heavy things.
However, just like every morning, today too it refused to normally 'wake up'.
- Shows amber button and shuts down right back with a second
- Or shows that amber button with 1-2 LED signal.
So I kept pressing the button for a while, pressed the power supply check button, at this pint some charge had started to build up in the system that I could feel with my hand on touch.
So I pessed the powersupply button + the power button at the same time. and the system "woke up", and gave me that sme "last shutdown due to thermal event" message on the start screen.
Seems to be working fine at the moment. Would almost certainly refuse to wake up tomorrow morning :)
Madlid
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August 13th, 2018 05:00
Yesterday I had "fixed" the BSODs by taking off the stickers and cleaning the dirt off the ram.
But the computer still was not waking up on its own today morning. I had to press the power supply button + the power button at the same time to power it up for the day.
Madlid
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August 13th, 2018 08:00
BSODs are back.
It often gives that same ram error 2000-0123, but that error just seems to be a side effect of whatever is the elusive main cause of all this.
VAQshare
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August 23rd, 2018 12:00
Reinstall the operating system.
or