With all those crashes have you been reporting them to Dell? You can build up your case for a return and full refund.
Bob
Ok so ive had my laptop(dell inspiron 1501) for about a month with windows vista basic. in that time i have just been doing whatever...internet, music etc and it will just crash(close to 10 times so far)then i will restart and it all fine again . i know vista has these problems but is there anything i can do to help prevent this ?? i update whenever i can

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