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Dell Inspiron 513S Crashing

Sep 18, 2009 11:35AM PDT

Can anyone help me...this computer keeps randomly crashing and I have no idea why! Is anyone else experiencing this? If so how did you resolve the issue? Please help!!

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Frankly?
Sep 18, 2009 1:58PM PDT
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inspiron 513S crashing
Sep 18, 2009 8:18PM PDT

So sorry... I am using windows vista and randomly it will just crash. It happens the most when I use the pogo web site and after sitting in sleep mode for an hour or two. and I have not blasted the vents with air...but certainly will today. I will also go and get the malware program you suggested. I am no computer pro here, so I apologize for the lack of information. Thank you so much for your suggestions.

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Those are fine clues!
Sep 18, 2009 10:33PM PDT

Pogo can tax some machines. The cleaning may help.

About 2 hours on sleep. Some may demand a fix, here I change the settings from sleep to hibernate if sleep is starting to fail.

You may not want to know that sleep is problematic for Windows at times. Try unplugging USB hard drives and printers or anything we can do without for now.
Bob