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Dell Vostro 1720 keeps freezing and it's really pissing me off!
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So I've got a dell Vostro 1720 that's out of warranty and it's running win7 home premium (legit OEM install) and it suddenly just started freezing somewhere between the welcome screen and immediately after login. It just completely locks up and the fan starts spinning loudly and closing the case won't put it to sleep. It went from happening every so often, like once a week or less, to every third time I turn it on to now every single time. I'm typing this from my wife's laptop because I haven't been able to get to mine for two days now.
Any help would me much appreciated. Thanks!
Any help would me much appreciated. Thanks!
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Also, you should perform a Ram check.
http://www.memtest.org/
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The fans are going crazy when it freezes, right? I think that overheating is a good candidate. Opening the case and cleaning the fans could help.
In my own experience, I've been keeping an old 2005 Inspiron6000 running for years now with little tweaks and repairs. I was having this issue a few years ago and it was mostly resolved when I wiped and reinstalled the OS. You seem far from that point, though.
It's not a virus or malware. I keep that pretty locked down and run a daily scan with windows defender and a weekly AVG/Spybot scan before the automated backup kicks in. I'd just restore to a previous backup if I could get the damn thing to boot properly. I don't think I can run the backup from safe mode.