Dell forum: Dell Studio XPS 435MT

I would check the Power Settings, "change advanced settings" to see what you might change. Turn off all screensavers to see if that is causing the problem. Screensavers are totally unnecessary nowadays and can cause problems. But since this is new, you must contact Dell asap. This might be something that needs to be reported. Do not let Dell try to make you reinstall Windows (the standard answer when support can't or won't figure out what's wrong) or replace hardware yourself.

I've had the same problem for months. I'm sure it's a h/w thing.

About 5-10min after power-up the mouse starts freezing. It looks like the whole USB bus is being reset. The power lights on various USB devices all go off for a sec. Freezes get more frequent until the machine freezes completely about 5 min later. After I power it off and reboot, it runs fine for hours and hours.

It seems something has to warm up and reboot before it's stable. When I want to use it, I just turn it on, wait for it to crash, reboot, and then do whatever I need to.

This happened with just Vista alone. At first I attributed it to Vista. Then I set up the machine to dual boot WinXP. Exactly the same thing happens under XP - same timing, but completely different OS, drivers, etc.

I'm going to take it in for warranty servicing this week.

That's great! (that they fixed it, not that you had the problem). How long were you without your PC? Did you buy it through Dell, or a retailer? I bought my through a retailer, so the process may be longer than if I got it directly from Dell.

Hi,

I'm a video editor and I have this system. Every so often when I use the firewire the system sticks. I need to use it though as many of my external devices use firewire.

So, what's DELL solution for this?

Hi guys,

I tried all your Troubleshootind still the samething happned and after 5 mins of shutsoffs you will here 6short beep.

any other TS pls..

Thanks,


Ps: do you think its a mobo issue?

Try a fresh install of Windows.