http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/2008/10/27/my-xps-m1710-seems-to-have-been-fixed-thanks-dell.aspxWell, after more than a months of working with Dell technicians - two seperate onsite calls and one workshop incident later and my laptop actually seems to have been fixed. I haven't run any diagnostics...yet, but as a benchmark i installed GearsenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)