I have this Dell Inspiron 530S running Windows XP home SP3. For quite some time this pile of junk has been screwing up its power management settings by either not going into sleep mode when it is supposed to, or when it actually does, quite often when I click the mouse to wake it, the wretched thing cranks its fan into high speed and seizes-up. I have to actually unplug the thing and wait a few seconds then plug it back in and power it up. I have had it! Now, as if those quirks weren't bad enough, NOW this steaming puddle of liquid waste is constantly blacking out the toolbar and the tab bar and I have to go into properties and reset the appearance. This started about a month ago and has been pulling this crap about every two or three days now!
Anyone else out there with a Dell Inspiron 530S having any issues like this? Dell is totally not helpful at all and although when I google the problems I find the quick fixes like resetting my appearance, but can't seem to get at the core of the problem..WHY Is this godforsaken thing doing this!?
