Vista - 0x00000101 Error

This is a brand new Dell Studio XPS 9000 running Vista Home Premium 64-Bit
Intel Core i7-950 processor (8MB L3 Cache3.06GHz)
9GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz

It blue screened right out of the box on the first start up with an error message: "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval." It was a 0x00000101 error code 0x00000101 (0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0xFFFFFA6001B27180,0x0000000000000000)

After a few restarts, I was able to load windows, but it would always immediately freeze after logging in. It would/will run fine in safe mode.

After working tirelessly with a few (mostly incompetent) Dell support doing many of the same things over and over again I have:

Reset BIOS to defaults.

Restored the system/Windows to the factory defaults from the hard drive, more than once. This did not help at all, and actually made the blue screens much more frequent.

Reformatted and then reinstalled Windows from dvd. This appeared to help, and things appeared to be working, but now it is continuously freezing again, though it is not immediately after log in like it was. It will run for sometime before freezing. The blue screen error message has not reappeared.

It has worked enough to get all drivers installed and updated and windows updated. But the freezing continues very frequently.

Some friends seem to think it may be RAM or motherboard related.

Any help would be appreciated, and I will provide any more information that is needed/that I am able to.

Thanks.

mjreed05 <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote:
DEMAND A NEW COMPUTER FROM DELL.

Brand new == return for warranty repair or replacement.

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