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HELP "entering power save"
HELP!
I can be working along and all of a sudden.. all stops. Black screen with message saying entering power save. It wont wake up nothing- have to power off and back on.. Starting to do this often.. like several times a night. Tonight already in a few hours has happened four or five times.
Also- have been getting some strange colors and stuff on screen.. colored rows of dots kind of.. hard to describe...
dont know if it is related or not.
I am running Windows XP on my Dell E520.
Please please.. if anybody has any ideas at all!!
Davet50
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December 3rd, 2008 14:00
It appears that your video card is failing. you can try running the Dell diagnostics by tapping the F12 key at the Big Dell splash screen and then enter the diagnostics
I still feel the video card though is going and you should either try it in another system or try another in yours.