Why Is My Computer Running Slow

samething happened with my m17x

Excellent fix, you saved my wifes bacon.

ur welcome = )

@megazone2148 : hi mega, it was a bit more complicated in this instance, although for general sleep mode incidents, that can work many times : ) Thanks for watching.

just hold the shutdown button and it will be awake if that does not work

same thing happened to me!

lol my dell does the same thing.

If it says fatal error occured, i had the same problem, it ended up being my dimm card was bad, try taking one out at a time and see if it will start normally, if it starts the dimm that you took out right before is bad, replace it

Try a “repair” install. Ask a tech savy person how to do it, they will know what you are talking about. If done correctly, you will get to keep all your files, and only the windows operating system files will be replaced/fixed.

does anyone know how to fix it when u start it and that loading thingy just keep loading ?

I sent you a private message with details on how you might fix this.

anyone now how to fix when it blue screens as soon as it starts ever time and on safemode it just restarts

I googled dell inspiron blinking caps lock and found some interesting articles, check it out.

I’m assuming you already double checked all the power settings? Also, are you trying to get it to go to sleep via time passing, or by pressing a button?

doesnt work,try to turn it on but the caps lock blinks with a black screen.did everything u did.i have a dell inspiron 1521 vista T.T

i got a vista desktop.i’d love to know why it WONT go to sleep please help me?

Took ti out, put it back in, and disabled sleep mode.

did you only take out the mem and put the same back in again?
..ill give that a try 2night

does it make any tones when it turns on? (beeps?) What color are the lights, laptop or desktop?

It might not be “sleep” mode that it is going into. I would check out all of the power save settings under control panel to make sure all that stuff is right first.

hey ummm my computer doesnt turn on at all. the power light jus flashes as if its tring to turn on, then it cuts off. i triedthe ram thinggg… any other help

hey ummm my computer doesnt turn on at all. the poer light jus flashes as if its tring to turn on, then it cts off. i triedthe ram thinggg… any other help

When i press the “sleep” button, it goes to sleep , but after a couple seconds or so, it turns back on. I hope you can help me. I looked on google, but all was about the computer not being able to wake up .

…this is a little vague, can you type out the error message?

Awesome, glad I could be of service!