thanks for all the help man,ysterday b4 u guys reply me,i hav a thought that my registry cause the prob,so i downloaded a registry cleaner to fix my window registry and now everything is back to normal.mayb i mess too much with my registry,lol,for the time being its functiong like normal.


@kwws
my xps hav 2gb of RAM,667 Mhz.plan to format it,it will b my last resort,lol,somehow i guess it might b registry prob,so its ok now,(^^)

i used to leave my notebook like that also...
really can hurts XPS system is it?...thought it won't be a problem leaving notebook on 24/7...only that option the screen off after three minutes...
is it true can cause problem leaving notebook with hibernate or standby?...

so....your problems solved already...good...
hmmm...from the photo you shared...i can see a naruto and one piece folder...
you like to watch one piece is it?...happy to know an XPS user watching One Piece...

hmmm its ok to have it 24/7 but ONLY if u have a laptop cooler below it...i ever face situations when i forgot to switch on laptop cooler and XPS stays idle became hot enuf to fry pancake below thr...very dangerous to ur motherboard...typical 12.1 lappies always get heated v fast

nah wont cause prob if hibernate....i always hibernate my lappie...few times a day...but if standby too long around few hrs or so, sometimes the memory will crash and BSOD cames out...i ever experience once b4...better hibernate than standby...

I never hibernate myself, as I'm a traditionalist who thinks that turning your computer on for long periods of time (even though hibernate is just turning it off + save session to HDD) will slow it down...

Besides, any computer seems to grow slower if used for long periods of time... I had a cousin who had his PC turned on for months on end... In 3 months, Windows was soooo laggy that he was FORCED to turn it off anyway...

Glad to hear your problem solved hi54ever...

And I BSOD sometimes even without hibernating... More straaaange M1210 quirks...

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jun 10 2007, 11:35 PM

bad news,PF usage shoot up rocket high...back to 2gb++ jz like the pic i showed..seems like registry repair aren't working..i recall back i have this happen after i done the window logon thingy??after i did the tweak,i felt tat i do not nid the password protection,so i deleted the value in the registry b4 i did the registry repair and window seems to hav some conflict here...its getting complicated..lol...help help.....

oh yea,im a big fan of one piece,manga,not animation,lol

This post has been edited by hi54ever: Jun 10 2007, 11:47 PM

Ugh... Reg conflicts... Without looking at your comp, config and registry itself, it'll be a bit hard to determine what went wrong...

At least for me...

Re-format, that's what I say... It's gonna be a hassle though, but at least you'll be sure that everything is gonna be back to normal...

If not, hello Dell repair cause if you RF and it's still problematic, that could be a sign of hardware problems...

reformat....ugh....i think i hav to do it anyway,i forgot to bring te dell instruction book,any1 can provide me with step to step guide??it seems like dell machine hav a special steps to a proper format it.

i detected tat the PF usage start chiong when avg is starting at startup,could this be the problem??i uninstalled it and things seems to b doin fine and i'll reinstall it back anyway...jeez...looks like im doin all sort of things except formating to make it back to normal,lol

This post has been edited by hi54ever: Jun 11 2007, 05:10 AM

get vista ultimate...reformat to vista dude...bwahaha

so u confirm AVG is causing the problems?

Eiraku congrats ur review for XPS manage to make it on lyn frontpage. Impressive keep it up man.

new user here..
been using M1210 since Nov 2006, so far the laptop performance is OK, except for the screen cover - loose and 1 dead pixel! can change a??

welcome to the club........

aiyo still cant wait for 2gb ram price to drop..or maybe 4gb...really need the speed

so...after you deleted AVG?...everything going smoothly?...
have you tried back installing Mcafee?...me,thought of installing AVG...
any other open antivirus to recommend to install?...

ooo...you preferred manga than anime...i go for both...
as both really making people laugh...anyway,anime really make you into it...

so,kwws...you still using AVG as your antivirus?

congrats...congrats...
welcome to the club...another proud owner of XPS...
mind to share you specs with us...
if not mistaken you can call Dell for an exchange...happened to one of the forummer...
and managed to get the replacement...

yups...also been waiting for 2gb ram price to drop...
whats the latest price for 2gb ram?...
wah!...if got 4gb ram in the market...sure the price is like "BOOOOM"...
never seen in the market yet...wonder how much it would be...

im using avast! myself. U can go frontpage and see Eiraku already list any kind of free antivirus with their workload. There are NOD32, avast!, AVG etc.

hmm 2gig ram here is quite cheap. idk whats the local price tho.

i m now in a dilemma on wether to get an XPS or an inspiron 6400.
would any1 share their exp on playing games or movie on their XPS?
12 inch lcd is kinda small thou.... scared "potong stim" coz too small.

btw...read quite alot of problems on XPS....izzit really that problematic?
deng..!

thing was ok without avg,but problem occur after i reinstall avg back..i cant really get the source of this problem, so i might thought of formatting it but sadly i dun hav the formatting guide,seems like i nid to boot Directmedia cd b4 reinstallation dvd??Hope some1 can provide me with a guide,now im trying with avast, hopefully it turns out ok,god speed

why everyone seem like having problem when using AVG??
i am using AVG Pro as well....but still no problem occur yet....

call dell & ask for a LCD replacement..

You're using XP rite? If you re-format according to the guidebook, I guess they'll have you do a recovery using the built in system... I don't think you'd want that, as the bloatware that Dell bundles are gonna be installed too...

You have the Windows XP CD with you, right? Okay, now... Just like the Vista reformat StepByStep I just did a coupla pages back, here we go:

1) Save every single thing that you need on DVDs or external HDD or whatever.

2) MAKE SURE THE BLUETOOTH IS TURNED ON UNDER WINDOWS - THE ICON IS BLUE AND WHITE (very important, I lost my BT for a few days just because Windows thought it was dead).

3) Download all the drivers you need from the Dell website (the recovery driver disk contains old drivers, remember).

3) Restart and insert the XP disk at startup.

4) Press any key when prompted.

5) Select your main partition (the one that contains Windows) and wipe it clean (delete partition).

6) Re-select the unused space, create a new partition (make sure it's C:), and format it with NTFS.

7) Windows will take care of the rest (but make sure you get the region info right. Select America for language, tune the measurements to metric, change the currency to RM and the date format to local. Make sure you select America/USA for the language because anything else will screw up the Keyboard. Selecting Malaysia for location is okay though).

8) After finishing, install the drivers from the recovery driver disk. Restart.

9) Update the drivers with the new ones (the bluetooth one requires the old drivers to be uninstalled first... I'm afraid of losing my BT again).

10) Install the Dell utilities that you need (I only installed the Dell resource CD, uninstalled QuickSet as soon as I could).

11) Install everything else.

If you do it this way, nothing should happen to the MD partition OR the recover partition...

And another thing... Make sure you install the SigmaTel audio drivers BEFORE you install the SoundBlaster Audigy HD whatever (if you have it)... You'll screw up the sound drivers if you don't...

And if you plan to reformat often, keep in mind that the SoundBlaster Audigy thingy CAN ONLY BE REINSTALLED 3 TIMES before the serial number becomes void...

For games and movies, yeah, it really does strain your eyes quite a bit to squint through a 12 inch window of glossy vividness... If you can stand the 6400 being quite a bit larger, better go for that...

IS the XPS THAT problematic? Well, yes AND no... For the most part, it's okay I guess, all laptops have their problems, and for the number of XPS M1210 that I see being sold worldwide (lets say a few million units, per year, since 2006), the number of problems and the severity of the problems are, in my opinion, not totally disproportionate...

Meaning, if you sell THAT many lappies, a certain number of the lappies are gonna go bad anyway... For pure statistics, the XPS's failure rate to unit sales ratio is a bit better then the Compaq V3000 and a lot better then any low end Acer on earth; is on par with HP Pavilions and is (obviously) inferior to IBM Thinkpads...

But I have to concede, the M1210 is far, far more temperamental then its older brother the 6400... Even my relatively problem-free M1210 BSODs for no apparent reasons sometimes, although it never really effects the M1210 (short of leaving a HUGE 16GB temporary dump file in the HDD every time it does BSOD)...

Thanks...

I see you've bought the V3244AU... Congrats!

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Added on June 12, 2007, 3:00 amOn another note, my lil bro's getting his VAIO VGN-C25G/B later today... It'll be interesting to see how the VAIO C stacks up to the M1210 (difference, smaller, 80GB HDD and slower proc - the 1.66 C2D)...

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jun 12 2007, 03:00 AM

Woah... They updated the Dell Malaysia website... Different layout already, catagorized into Basic, Mainstream and Performance... And look at the pic on the performance part, isn't that an M1710? Are they gonna start selling 'em in Malaysia?

God, the suspense!

thaks for the guide dude,i've tried system restore but its not working as well...i found tat if i leave my lappy unused or turn off for whole night, the PF useage will start getting mad,but after several reboot it'll turn back to normal and also 1 thing i realise is the available physical memory was so LOW but the total is still right...now i really wonder if the cold weather is affecting this lappy,like a car,nid to heat up the engine before starting...sigh....possible?

uninsatalling quickset will disable ur webcam button on ur keyboard isnt it??do u nid any sequence in installing the driver??like 1st board driver,then the rest etc??

This post has been edited by hi54ever: Jun 12 2007, 05:38 PM