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 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 with more numbers in
parantheses afterward, but I have managed to lose the rest of the
numbers and the blue screen hasn't reappeared lately.

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.

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.


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mjreed05