Dell XPS Video Problem

[heyttsguy]

just baked my dell xps m1530 motherboard, today 390F for 10 min, works perfectly now. its a known problem with the nvidia chip, theres a lawsuit in the states over it and dell has extended the existing warranty by 1 year on effected laptops because of this.

[eriknoorlandt]

Haha, allright i love people.. You post some dude backin a Grafical Card and everybody starts doing the same! And why does it work for every body? Because diring the proces of getting the card out of you laptop you have to unplug the boot chip battery!

Better solution:

Take out laptop battery

Unmount the keyboard

Unplug the little boot battery

Wait a second

Replug battery

Remount keyboard

Hit Startup Key

There you go....

[rygger]

@eriknoorlandt

This actually worked in my case! Thanks!

[00Pottus00]

I had the exact same problem.... Baked my card at 400F for 10 minutes put it back in and it's worked ever since.

[QuickFox2]

Easssyy fix. Disassemble the entire laptop, take the motherboard out and remove the graphics card. Put in an oven at 180 Degrees, no more, no less. 5 MINUTES. guaranteed fix, re solders the graphics card and repairs the microfractures caused from the overheating.

[alteans]

Simple fix actually.. Take the video card out, strip the heat sink, use a heat gun to reheat the memory chips on the the board. Set the heat gun to about 380-400 degrees.Heat each memory chip for about a minute or so.

Make sure you don't accidentally overheat them or the chips or some other surface mount parts will fall off.

This is a technicians guide only.

Ppl who repairs Xboxes,PS3's or other assorted electronics and have experience in re-floating, knows what I'm talking about.. Good luck .

[jccs0421]

Would reflow technique work the same as baking it? Interesting, first time hearing about baking, but I guess it's the similar to reflow w/ a heat gun.

[pintukemanesaja]

Bake the old video card for how long?

[Bayr0n]

I have the same problem atm (the vertical lines). I'm running in software mode. Did you still have warranty when you got it fixed? I know it's the graphics card. I took it out and replaced the cooling paste, but that didn't fix it.

[EnergyChannelHD]

I got same problem but in Small mode i jsut cannt play games lol

[babeareno]

Well it worked for me, How would of thought putting your video card in the oven to bake for 10 to 15min will fix the problem.

[VincentFunk]

I had the same lines when window's was loading, got a hold of Dell and was going to send it back. But, I baked my GPU and it works great now.

[luvmyctd]

This vid shows the artifacts of a failed M1710 video card and has nothing to do with "dusty" memory module(s). This video card failure is well known and documented.

Dell / Nvidia failed experiment.

[sseleanor]

I tried removing the memory modules, noticed the smallest bit of dust on one conection, a blew in around all areas and carefully wiped the connections. reinstalled them, and just tried it to see. !!!! perfect !!!!! took 60 secs, FIXED!!! no expensive graphics card, no oven baking, FIXED!!! hope this helps anyone with the exact problem as seen above,

[sseleanor]

1: buy a new graphics card

2: bake the graphics card in the oven!!

(exact procedure but people swear by it)

3: someone said to remove the memory modules and clean them of any dust, so,

before I striped the computer (Dell XPS m1710) again, first time did it to clear the years of dust,

[sseleanor]

!!! I had this problem !!!! exactly the same thing, after doing some research on the internet I was left with a few options,

[IamCell24]

Hi I have the same problem with my XPS M1710, nvidea Go 7900 GS, WindowsXP. What I eneded up doing was disabling the video card. That was the only way for the darn thing to work consistently, though the video was VERY slow (just to scroll down through a Word document would be painfully slow).

Now ontop of that, the HD now has the Click of death!

I really like the XPS M1710, it's a sweet laptop when it's working.

AyeLLan, how is your Dell XPS working now?

[Darconda90]

The same happened to me just yesterday, so for now I have disabled the GFX (7950 GTX oh yeah :D) card until I can get a replacement on the warranty.

Has anyone fixed their problem, IamCell24?

[IamCell24]

Not to my knowledge Darconda90, I'm still waiting for a reply from AyeLLan. xD

I get jealous each time I watch the Big Bang Theory show on TV, cuz Sheldon has the same computer I have, but his seems to be working just fine!

[Darconda90]

I feel the same way when I watch it, c'mon 3 seasons and it's still working something is going on. Anyway have you fixed yours?

The slow scrolling thing is starting to get to me now, here I am with super-laptop (IMO) that has trouble with MS word.

But the worst thing is that I'm missing out on great games like Borderlands and what not

[IamCell24]

No dude, I haven't, mines is still broken, my warranty expired already, so I am utterly screwed.

[Panos8918]

@Darconda90 i have. i putted my g-card in the oven. not kidding. also did a few other things. now it's working quite well :p

[HolyVampires]

I Tested a sulution to this that workt for me. if you have no worrenty left and are going to change the videocard, you can always test to put the card without the coller in the owen for 10 minutes att 200celcius, dont move it untill it coledown.

what is dose is it is smelting the soledering that might be bad if it is becouse of over heting befor it might work after this it did it for me. if any one test this. plese ley me know the result.

[IamCell24]

Dude, could you run that by me again, didnt quite get it. What did you put in the oven???? your NEW video card? or the old one????

I did not understand your post, could you please repost... thanks

[Panos8918]

@HolyVampires i did it but i put the card in the oven at 150 degrees for three minutes on each side of the card. I worked, not on one, but on two 7950 GTX's that i had at home

[idyllwild1]

Hey guys my graphics card has a problem theres no vertical lines but it cant play video or games properly it always goes into SUPER lag whenever there to many things on the screen and sum times if you dont do anything in the game it starts to not lag but then a few seconds after that when i move around it lags again wats the problem

[Rapmastermax]

The video card has memory on it and yours is fried. That's why it failed video memory test. Dell has to be aware of design flaw. You should take legal action. I have seen some post that claim computers replaced by Dell, with new units for this problem. If everyone who owns one of these boat anchors would pressure for results, it could not hurt. What have you got to lose?

[hamsterball27]

its cuz the gpu is bust itcan only display 640x480 so go in to safe mode and try it then

[Zulermahpower]

Got like the same problem what should i do :S?

[Sondredb]

This helped me:

Right click on My Computer, go to HArdware and that hardwarecontrol thing. Now locate the scrrencard, and uninstall it. Rstart ur PC. If u get toruble, start it in SafeMode, and disable the scrrencard..

To get into Safemode, prss F8

[samet408]

i have a packard bell pc and acer laptop and is not slow ;)

[TD97BE]

get a packard bell go to my profile and i will soon have a vid of my lap

[viper22jc]

fuck dell and their stupid warranty. this shit happened to me a month after i bought it. warranty ran out then I renewed it, there goes money. the only thing they managed to do was replace the screen. so now I'm stuck with this overpriced piece of shit and no warranty. fuck dell. if anybody wants to sue them let me know....

[Wallydude03]

If you find the location of the video IC. you might be able to get ur video to work by putting more pressure on it. The reason you have a video problem is because the connections between the video IC and the motherboard have broken down. This is a common problem with laptops that have an Nvidia chipset. These chipsets run hotter that ATI chipsets.

[pqzheng2000]

never dell ,never nvidia

[shadowulf23]

i have this trouble when i play games aswell the textures do funny things like come out of the screen. i phoned them up and after a painstakeing 5 hours (yes 5) they told me that the motherboard and graphics card needed replacing. i told them that i knew this as i am not a dummy with pcs. they later rang up and said it would cost over 500 £ for the repair. and i told them to get real as i c'ould build a more powerfull system from scratch for 500 £ :(

[itchyundies]

i got the same thing xps m1710 nvidia 7950 gtx gpu and the gpu shat itself same symptoms i disabled the graphics card and was able to use it to read email albeit painfully slow then 3 weeks later today nothing at all blank screen windows starts as i can here the jingle but what a shit company dell is i was just out of warranty and now they want $ 2000au dollars to fix

i told em to fair shove it up there ass

NEVER BUY A DELL COMPUTER

THERE TOTAL CRAP AND YOU WILL HAVE ENDLESS DRAMAS

[sadjafff]

omg its slow lol

[kyotheking56]

My ze2000 windows xp laptop does the same anyways i know its the video card or graphic card so i have to buy a new

one anyways am not a genious with laptops so i was wondering anybody knows were to get the card installed in youre laptop.

[2fast2furiousbmw]

Hallo, I have had the same Problem, it´s the Grafic Card, but i have repair it at ebay from a pc store for 149 € and it´s top and now i have 6 month warranty ;)

[Abuhnida]

i have same problem with my Dell D630 Nvidia Quadro NVS 135M. Also my screen will split to six small screens. I have windows XP.

[thisguyyoutoob]

This EXACT same thing happened to my laptop twice now. This time.. today actually I called Dell and they are going to replace my laptop for an XPS M1730. They say because the video memory is being recalled for replacement from the manufacturer, but due to supply issues the parts are on backorder until at least February. So Dell has my new M1730 on expedite.

[mychalupax]

This happened to my Dell Latitude only the pixel distortion was all blue and green. It was a motherboard/graphics card problem too, but thank GOD it was under warranty. I had it fixed by a Dell technician at my house, however, who didn't actually verbally tell me that he replaced those things. I had to watch and figure out what the parts were myself >.o

[nismax2003DQ]

check your ram it maight be out its place. check your card (maight be graphics card ram)

[jcintc]

I have the exact same problem also. I bought @ Dell XPS gen2 10/24/05 1yr & 2 weeks later the screen went black. Dell refused to fix it because it was 2 weeks out of warranty. So I paid $420 + $70 install for a new video card. Yesterday the new card started doing the same damn thing. Screw nvidia & dell, I see there are class actions being filed.

[redhidus]

hey did u get those random huge pixels every time you start the laptop??

i have the same problem,but i get streaks...but sometimes my laptop work just fine.Those guys said they ll replace GPU+motherboard...

but as i said its working fine in some cases... :(

i donno what they ll do,if this thing works fine when it reaches DELL for replacement...i posted some videos

[AyeLLan]

Um it got worse over time. Before it would start up fine but then screw up while i was using it (randomly the screen would get all messed up then crash). and the more that happened, it just wouldn't start up like how it is in the video.

[TheChrisey]

@AyeLLan this might be to late.but did you check if it got overheated? as this is a very common issue on Mobile GPUs as the fan gets filled with dust and it overheats and the soldering melts on the GPU makes it gets bad connection to the mobo,tought there is a way to fix it but its at your own risk as you can bake it,I did that once with a HP that this happend to and with the right time and right heat it will work for a longer time but if it dosent gets hot enough then it will work a short time

[fxrtst11]

Thanks for posting. I have the same computer. I found your post and it was exactly same issue. Call Dell they have 3 year in your home repair. They are sending over a guy next week to replace grapgics card.

[jdchandler2010]

i also have the m1710...my problem is IDENTICAL. its almost worth buying a new computer because the cost of a new motherboard and videocard is so expensive

[Nickiewoo]

I had the same problem twice" few months ago its the "videocard" the tech-guy came and replaced it after that everything work fine...

Good luck

[miagi84]

I'm guessing you got it fixed by now but thats definitely a video card problem if it is integrated you will have to change the motherboard. The picture will not glitch the way it did if it was the lcd panel. good luck.

[AyeLLan]

thanks but I did not fix it yet because I can't afford to have the motherboard replaced as well. the Video card alone will cost me a good 400 dollars. =/

[EnergyChannelHD]

@AyeLLan Just buy a new computer with 400 dollars LOL

[06085IHAStudent]

@AyeLLan Then you will most likely only need to replace the videocard, since it is not an onboard card.

btw: watch?v=YsMDnHIS8vg

It might save the card, if you are willing to try it.

[MTSMoviez]

@AyeLLan Dude try the oven trick .. it fixed my dell xps .. oh man 2years .. you had bought a new pc by now ...

[toxicalienn]

It is graphic card, i ordered my xps 1710 and they delayed my order 1.5 months ahead and i'v been told by one of the staff tht xps 1710 is giving away problems with new ddr3 graphic card.

So i am sure this is the problem.

[member353]

looks like video card to me

have you monitored the temps of the card ?