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I managed to run diagnostics and got an error code saying that my hard drive was failing and needs to be replaced. So I guess this one is solved.

I purchased and recieved the laptop direct from Dell in August. It came with Vista and was elgible for a free upgrade to Windows 7. I did the upgrade option from the disk around two weeks ago and now I can't even get far enough in the boot to run any diagnostics or to do a clean reinstall of...

Correction: Error code is now STOP:0x00000003B (0x00000000C0000005, 0xFFFFF80002E8C244, 0xFFFFF8800472D190, 0x0000000000000000)

Hi all, I recently upgraded my Inspiron 1545 to windows 7 which worked fine for approx. two weeks. What happened is blue/white lines appeared across the screen and the computer froze so I restarted it. When I restarted it I found that windows would not load so reseated the memory and hard drive...