[TriLUG] My Dell Laptop is extremely slow

[Daniel Zhang]

Yes, I found that diagnostic CD from my basement. The result is my new 
20GB harddrive failed to pass the test.  Everything works perfect when I 
switch back to my original  30GB harddrive shipped with laptop. Come 
on!  It only ran a couple of weeks and it failed!? What a luck!

BTW, I burned an ultimate boot cd as Jay suggested. The basic version 
has many tools for different tests but there is no comprehensive testing 
program like Dell diagnostic CD does. You have to run them one by one 
manually.

Thanks for your help!

Daniel

Liyun Yu wrote:

> Daniel Zhang wrote:
>
>> My Dell Inspiron 1150 running Fedora 3 crashed recently and can't 
>> reboot. I did nothing before it crashed except I didn't shut down the 
>> machine for several days.
>> Then I try to reinstall OS but machine hangs there a couple of 
>> times.  The error message includes possible hardware failure. Finally 
>> I barely reinstall it with the minimum packages but it runs like a 
>> tortoise.
>>
>> Is that due to bad RAM(512 MB for this machine) or anything else? If 
>> so, how can I check RAM good or not? Thanks.
>>
>> Daniel
>
>
> All DELL computer shipped with a cd titled as "Drivers & Utilities".
> (Subtitle said "Already installed on your computer")
> It is a bootable CD. You may run that CD and use the extensive test
> button to test your hardware. That should give you more information on
> what went wrong. After the test, you may either click on the customize
> button or symptom summary button to see the reports. DELL did not
> have output option ( at least I know of) from the test CD therefore you
> might have to take notes when call DELL support.
>
> Liyun
>