mjreed05 <> wrote:
>
>This is a brand new Dell Studio XPS 9000 running Vista Home Premium
>64-Bit
>Intel Core i7-950 processor (8MB L3 Cache3.06GHz)
>9GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz
>
>It blue screened on the first start up with an error message: "A clock
>interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated
>time interval." It was a 0x00000101 error code with more numbers in
>parantheses afterward, but I have managed to lose the rest of the
>numbers and the blue screen hasn’t reappeared lately.
>
>After a few restarts, I was able to load windows, but it would always
>immediately freeze after logging in. It would/will run fine in safe
>mode.
>
>After working tirelessly with a few (mostly incompetent) Dell support
>doing many of the same things over and over again I have:
>
>Reset BIOS to defaults.
>
>Restored the system/Windows to the factory defaults from the hard
>drive, more than once. This did not help at all.
>
>Reformatted and then reinstalled Windows from dvd. This appeared to
>help, and things appeared to be working, but now it is continuously
>freezing again, though it is not immediately after log in like it was.
>It will run for sometime before freezing. The blue screen error message
>has not reappeared.
>
>It has worked enough to get all drivers installed and updated and
>windows updated. But the freezing continues very frequently.
>
>Some friends seem to think it may be RAM or motherboard related.
>
>Any help would be appreciated, and I will provide any more information
>that is needed/that I am able to.
>
>Thanks.
>
>This is a brand new Dell Studio XPS 9000 running Vista Home Premium
>64-Bit
>Intel Core i7-950 processor (8MB L3 Cache3.06GHz)
>9GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz
>
>It blue screened on the first start up with an error message: "A clock
>interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated
>time interval." It was a 0x00000101 error code with more numbers in
>parantheses afterward, but I have managed to lose the rest of the
>numbers and the blue screen hasn’t reappeared lately.
>
>After a few restarts, I was able to load windows, but it would always
>immediately freeze after logging in. It would/will run fine in safe
>mode.
>
>After working tirelessly with a few (mostly incompetent) Dell support
>doing many of the same things over and over again I have:
>
>Reset BIOS to defaults.
>
>Restored the system/Windows to the factory defaults from the hard
>drive, more than once. This did not help at all.
>
>Reformatted and then reinstalled Windows from dvd. This appeared to
>help, and things appeared to be working, but now it is continuously
>freezing again, though it is not immediately after log in like it was.
>It will run for sometime before freezing. The blue screen error message
>has not reappeared.
>
>It has worked enough to get all drivers installed and updated and
>windows updated. But the freezing continues very frequently.
>
>Some friends seem to think it may be RAM or motherboard related.
>
>Any help would be appreciated, and I will provide any more information
>that is needed/that I am able to.
>
>Thanks.
DEMAND A NEW COMPUTER FROM DELL.
