Dell XPS m1330 Slows to a Crawl

My setup: I have a Dell XPS m1330 laptop running Win7 32-bit. I have two external displays running normally. Both are LG Flatron widescreens and one is HDMI the other VGA.

Lately my laptop has been slowing down to a crawl after some amount of time. The time it takes to do this varies, but it seems to happen more after I have been viewing video (flash or avi). The only fix I have found is to unplug the external displays and reboot.

I have installed all the latest drivers and software on this laptop. I do not have a virus or spyware.

After much troubleshooting, it appears that this problem only occurs when the external monitors (either one or both at the same time) are plugged in. I can run the laptop for days by itself and it seems fine.


Is there a fix out there or has anyone seen this before? Any ideas/tips would be greatly appreciated.

By the way, this problem is getting worse over time. It used to happen every couple of days, then once a day, and now it is happening many times per day.

Hello supercharn;

Does the problem happen while you're disconnected from the internet?

Hey Supercharn, I've got the same laptop and am trying to run 2 external monitors without luck... how have you achieved it ?