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WaIIy - 25 Sep 2008 04:23 GMT

Friends computer, my 1505 is great (XP Pro)

E1505
Vista
1.6 Dual Core ( I think 2060)
2 x 512 Ram

The computer blue screens with NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error

It was pretty dusty and I blew it out, but it is still pretty warm
underneath the upper left side. The internal fan goes on after about 15
minutes and mine almost never goes on.

I put a usb fan cooler thing under it and it helped a bit, although BSOD
after about an hour. Reboot okay and it only blue screens when you are
in windows. I also reseated memory and reversed slots.

Second problem - DVD/CD drive won't read/open CDs, it just makes a
clicking noise every ten seconds. DVDs are no problem. No probems in
Device Manager for anything.

Thanks for any advice (on the computer, not the election).

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S.Lewis - 25 Sep 2008 05:58 GMT

> Friends computer, my 1505 is great (XP Pro)
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> Thanks for any advice (on the computer, not the election).

Power off. Power on and F12 at the Dell (splash) screen. Place a software
CD in the DVD/CD drive. Arrow down to either "boot to utility partition" or
choose "run diagnostics".

In the event you get the latter, run the (full system, not just hard drive)
diags - should only take 10-15minutes. You should (hopefully) get a prompt
to run the *full* extended diags. Choose "yes/ok" to continue.

Once at the diags interface, choose "custom" diags. Check "non-interactive"
and "extended diags" and leave the number of loops at "1".

Click 'run diags' and walk away for a while. If the CD read of the DVD/CD
is bad, you'll get errors. You may also get memory errors pertaining to the
blue screen of death. (*you might also try re-seating both sticks of RAM
w/power unplugged and battery removed before you start the diags.......)

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins6400/en/sm/memory.htm#wp999869

Stew

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S.Lewis - 25 Sep 2008 05:59 GMT

>> Friends computer, my 1505 is great (XP Pro)
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> Stew

PS- Dude should be ashamed of running Vista on this machine with only 1gb of
RAM......

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WaIIy - 25 Sep 2008 07:23 GMT

>PS- Dude should be ashamed of running Vista on this machine with only 1gb of
>RAM......

Hee.. good one.

It's a friend of a friend who has the laptop and he's 86 years old.

It came with a gig and it's faster than he is.

Me, I took Vista off my 1505, went with XP Pro and 2 gigs.

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S.Lewis - 25 Sep 2008 12:37 GMT

>>PS- Dude should be ashamed of running Vista on this machine with only 1gb
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> Me, I took Vista off my 1505, went with XP Pro and 2 gigs.

Well, at that age he certainly deserves credit and respect for staying
involved with PC's, but that's gotta be slow.

I'd reseat the RAM and then run the Dell diags on the system either from the
hard disk (if the utility partition is still there) or from his
diags/Resource CD (F12). The latter would kill two birds with one stone in
that it would also provide CD media for the optical drive CD read test.

Good luck.

Stew

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Jerry - 25 Sep 2008 16:36 GMT

> Second problem - DVD/CD drive won't read/open CDs, it just makes a
> clicking noise every ten seconds. DVDs are no problem. No probems in
> Device Manager for anything.

Daughter's laptop had the exact same optical drive problem a couple of
years ago, wouldn't recognize that a CD of any kind was in the drive.
Dell support declared it was a common problem, shipped a replacement
drive under warranty.

Jerry

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WaIIy - 26 Sep 2008 05:49 GMT

>> Second problem - DVD/CD drive won't read/open CDs, it just makes a
>> clicking noise every ten seconds. DVDs are no problem. No probems in
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>Jerry

Thanks, I'll pick one up.

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Jerry - 26 Sep 2008 18:51 GMT

> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:36:37 -0700 (PDT), Jerry
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> Thanks, I'll pick one up.

Her laptop was a low end B130??? But a drive is a drive, right? They
must have got hold of a bad batch of drives.

Jerry

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