Well what a bad day!!, poor old ax has decided to start behaving in a very confused manner, started with a lock up, then after a soft reset it has started taking about 5 seconds to respond to any input, decided to do a hard reset and still no improvement, to add insult to injury the restore back up file will not work!!!, I mean how bad is this!!!, not happy!
I will now enter the murky world of Dell support in the morning, i am so dissapointed, thought it would not happen to me, wish me luck!
I am now going to lock myself away in a dark room to calm down!!!!

As strange as this may sound try this. Take both the MAIN and the BACKUP batteries out for 5 mins and then reinstall and see if that helps. Doing a hard reset clears and reloads most of everything but some file systems do still lay around.

Wildcat aka Scott
Technical Operations
ESPN

Hope he makes a speedy recovery.

Thanks all for your kind words, i will now leave the confines of my dark room put down my bottles of beer that i hoped would dull the pain and try wildcat's advice, lets see what happens???

sadly the advice to remove all batts has not worked, symptoms include sloooow response, ages to start up mixed up screen, very depressed owner, why do these things always happen on a sunday!!!!!

did you commit any sins???cuzz i heard god watches ppl more on sundays:P....well good luck on fixing him

God watches you everyday!

How does the program memory allocation look?
You'd expect only about 4 - 6 mb in use with no applications open.

Persistence can pass for brilliance
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Mike

Regret to inform that poor ax is going back to the place whence it came, i endured a few phone calls and convinced them that the illness was terminal!, I have a new ax arriving tomorrow (touch wood) I am in the process of saying a tearful farewell as i speak, goodbye cruel world!
I will never again sin on a sunday!