I have a Dell Inspiron E1705 I purchased May 2006. Recently ( 4 months ?? ) it has started to seize up. I will be doing some task and the mouse/keyboard will stop with the screen frozen. Sometimes I am moving form lap to table, sometimes no real movement at all. Must turn off and restart. Sometimes I can do this by holding down power button, sometimes must remove power. When I restart, sometimes it wont boot. Short flash of hard drive light, then the cap lock light and light to the right of it just blink on and off. Must remove power and repeat ( sometimes several times ). When gets going, all is fine for a while. Sometimes OK for weeks, sometimes seizes up several times in a day ( like yesterday ).
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I took laptop into local shop. They were able to make it freeze during diagnostic. They cleaned out the insides ( very dusty ) and installed a new ( larger ) hard drive. That was Friday, and we are running smoothly as of Monday evening!!!
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