I have a Dell XPS M1330 laptop Im trying to get going again for a family member. The HD took a shit so it was replaced with a WD Scorpio Black 160GB.. Now, Im trying to get Vista installed and running. Ive had a couple that Ive resolved, however there are two I cannot figure out and are probably related.
1st is it wont wake up from sleep properly. Lots of HD activity, but no screen action, does not even turn on. On the rare occasion it does, the touchpad does not work.
2nd is randomly it will fail to boot. It will hang at the green bar forever with no HD activity. Not even Safe Mode works; it hangs after loading the last driver.
The work around Ive found for this is to go into the BIOS and disable MultiCore, Dynamic Acceleration, and SpeedStep. Then it will boot. After that I can reenable those features and its fine until the next incident.
I have no clue what could possibly be causing these issues. Any ideas?
1st is it wont wake up from sleep properly. Lots of HD activity, but no screen action, does not even turn on. On the rare occasion it does, the touchpad does not work.
2nd is randomly it will fail to boot. It will hang at the green bar forever with no HD activity. Not even Safe Mode works; it hangs after loading the last driver.
The work around Ive found for this is to go into the BIOS and disable MultiCore, Dynamic Acceleration, and SpeedStep. Then it will boot. After that I can reenable those features and its fine until the next incident.
I have no clue what could possibly be causing these issues. Any ideas?
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