My system as listed on Dell support is as follows:
Service Tag: GQQX82J Change Service Tag
System Type: Inspiron 1300/B130
Ship Date: 5/21/2006
Dell IBU: Europe
50 INSPIRON 1300 N-SERIES CELERON M PROCESS
50 WIDE SCREEN 15.4″ WXGA (1280X800) LCD PA
50 ENGLISH DOCUMENTATION INSPIRON 1300
50 EUROPEAN – POWER CORD
50 MEMORY 256MB (1X256) 533MHZ DDR2 SDRAM
50 HARD DRIVE 40GB IDE (5400 RPM)
50 DVD+/-RW (READ/WRITE) 8X FIXED INTERNAL
50 “CINEPLAYER” SOFTWARE FOR DVD PLAYER (RE
50 “ROXIO CREATOR” & “MY DVD” BASIC SOFTWAR
50 AC ADAPTER 60W
50 BATTERY PRIMARY 4-CELL 29W/HR LI-ION
50 NOT INCLUDED CARRY CASE
50 UK MODEM CABLE AND ADAPTER INTERNAL V.92
50 WIRELESS CARD DELL 1370 MINI PCI (802.11
50 ARABIC INTERNAL KEYBOARD (QWERTY)
50 SOFTWARE DRIVER INSPIRON 1300 N-SERIES K
50 PC RESTORE RECOVERY SYSTEM BY SYMANTEC
50 NOT INCLUDED DELL SUPPORT SOFTWARE
50 FREE DOS CD DROP IN THE BOX
The only change is an additional 500MB 533MHZ DDR2 SDRAM
Operating system WinXP Prof with SP3
and a bunch of programs that loads on start up…
I am the only default user with Adm rights and notice some locks up starting after about 1 hour of re-starting the system, it will start with short ones 2-3 seconds and may be every 10-15 min. if I am going slow on the system, I noticed that cpu usage jumps to 100% and stays stady never going down even after eliminating lots of loaded startup progrmas, usage goes down to 80-90 then back to 100!
As time goes on freezes become more frequent and noticable might last up to 5 min. sometimes mouse moves put with the hour glass and someother time I just have no mouse indicator at all! Task Manager at that time show a certain program not responding, as I jumb to other (running processes) will show by their turn not responding and soon all processes are not responding for a few min might go up to 15 as after that I just shut down and re-start loosing patiens.
When no mouse and complete feeze happens some times the Alt+Ctrl+Del will work and show up the regular window asking if I want to logoff shut down…. and I choose Task Manger, window disapears and desktop will show empty, then little by little icons start comming back then my last program I was in before the lock up then finally the task Manager then in few seconds later all non-responding programs shows for a second that they are running then back non repsponding and things keep changing until system stabilizes and back to normal.
In other situations even Alt+Ctrl+Del will not work I just get a BEEP, then again the above sequence starts, Or just simply nothing happpens and have to restart the system.
Sorry for my deteled description but I know there are a lot of similar luck ups that does not apply to what I have, and if no one can help at least we have a new research point to find a solution!
Step tacken to solve the problem
1-Virous, antispy, and all well knows problems scans 100% virous free and McAffee security center lets me know any changes any potentially unwanted program might attempt.
2-Driver and Software updates all done
3-An online system check on Dell Support system shows all periferials passed all tests – so no hardware failures!
4- And this is the most imortant part of the WHOLE PROBLEM that made me decide to make that post!
WHEN i LOGIN AS ADMINISTRATOR, SYSTEM WORKS JUST PERFECT!!!
I’ve been on the system for hours on the net, I googled my problem and surfed lots of sites and forums …Not one single lock upor Freeze!!
My conclusion is some start up program that loads only as a user and did not load when Administrator causes the problem, or load with some program I did not use so far!
At the moment I can not run comparasions on the config files but I did before selective start up and any program I was suspecting turned not to be the problem, the only program I always used is the anti-virus but I am still using now and without problems as I said.
I’ll post any further discoveries as I work on this problem, however any suggestions would be appreciated.
Sorry for my long descriptions.
Best regards
