Shortly after a Dell technician replaced my fan, I noticed that my screen saver would never load despite hours of idle activity. When I try to "preview" my screen saver, it will only flash on the screen for a second before disappearing. On a related note, I cannot run a disk check. When I schedule the disk check on boot, it says that the disk check "has been cancelled" immediately after it starts.
I seriously doubt this is a malware problem. I run Spybot and Ad-aware regularly, and I have an updated version of McAfee for antivirus. This seems to be more of a hardware problem, but I have no clue what it can be. The only thing I can think of is that something is causing the system to think that it is not idle. Help please.
I have already tried the following:
1) checking my power options
2) downloading the optional HID update (this was unsuccessful because I do not have the attached wireless device required to receive this update)
3) running the sfc /scannow scan (it found no errors)
4) making sure my network adapters are not set to wake up the laptop
Any other ideas? Bios suggestions maybe?
Dell Inspiron 1501
Vista 32-bit SP1
AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 2.0 GHz
2 GB RAM
I seriously doubt this is a malware problem. I run Spybot and Ad-aware regularly, and I have an updated version of McAfee for antivirus. This seems to be more of a hardware problem, but I have no clue what it can be. The only thing I can think of is that something is causing the system to think that it is not idle. Help please.
I have already tried the following:
1) checking my power options
2) downloading the optional HID update (this was unsuccessful because I do not have the attached wireless device required to receive this update)
3) running the sfc /scannow scan (it found no errors)
4) making sure my network adapters are not set to wake up the laptop
Any other ideas? Bios suggestions maybe?
Dell Inspiron 1501
Vista 32-bit SP1
AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 2.0 GHz
2 GB RAM
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