I do shutting down it once in a while but I preferred to lived it open and go thru a sleep mode status. My everyday daily used is like open my laptop, go online for 6~8 hrs then stayed it open until tomorrow. Now 2011, this black screen issue occurs on my laptop. My laptop works fine again and I maintain cleaning my cooling fan every six months. The solution I've done for this issue is I remove the back cover and unscrewed the cooling fan and remove all the stuck dust on it. The problem occurs when I play games the use to much ram like online games and autoshutdown will activate after it exceed its maximum heat tolerance.

I've been in an autoshutdown issue due to clogging of dust in my cooling fan. Using this laptop is a pain in my *** for the past 3 years. Good thing for me I still got my warranty and I spent 3 times going to best buy just to replaced this laptop and exchange it for a new one which is great. It was good when I first used it for atleast 1 week after the malfunction of my dvd rom after I've first used it. It's been 03/2008 since I've purchase this laptop. I'll tell my whole story of the XPS m1530. Really hope this works for you guys, cause its a pain in the *** to have this problem With holding the power button for 30 sec, u delete everything on the computer, exept for data on the harddrive ofcourse, and therefore the RAM info would have been deleted, and the computer would start normally. The guy i spoke with said that windows stored some info on the RAM's when the computer went to sleeping mode, and sometimes windows wasnt able to get that info running again. The first 5-7 seconds it looked like the computer would have the exact same problem that id had before, but after 7 seconds or so, the computer turn on completely normal, and everything worked!! The told me to unplug everything, then plug the AC adapter and the battery in, then hold the power button for 30 seconds, let go of the power button and wait for 4-5 seconds, before pressing the power button again. I called Dell Support and they told me it was a problem with windows, which i found pretty wierd.

Hey guys, i may have found the solution on the problem that u guys have descired.

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