I have a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop with a bad motherboard. This laptop shutsdown for no reason, or sometimes won't even start. This can happen weather the unit is hot or cold, battery or A/C. I know this is a very common problem with this motherboard. I have found the repair tips for the 5150 to repair a similar problem, but this is not the same. I found out that there is 1 or 2 CMOS chips on the motherboard that cause this, but I have not found out which ones. I figured mabey one of you has seen and resolved this issue with one of these units. Thank you, Chad Griffiths Griffiths TV/VCR Schenectady, NY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email List is accessible to the general public through search engines. Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Set Vacation mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacation Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/