Nvidia Video Card Failure Dell XPS M1330 GPU

[Nationstatesuser]

Does it matter if the lines are vertical, or can they be horizontal? Mine are horizontal, mostly a light blue colour, but the tint depends slightly on the colour the screen should be. I have an Nvidia. The computer itself is an HP laptop.

[akinorhan5]

search on youtube graphics car oven

[LadyVader1986]

@tallyhoman911 No I don't have warranty. The extended warranty the gave me expired in august 2009.

[LadyVader1986]

The fix is useless. I got the free repair also, and mine failed again a year later. Now Dell is trying to charge me to fix it. I spent 955 dollars on my XPS M1530, and refuse to put anymore money towards it. I am considering legal action if Dell won't fix it for free, give me a refund, or a replacement laptop.

[tallyhoman911]

@LadyVader1986 do you have a warranty?

[kuyajhet]

well i have a toshiba satellite laptop..same problem..but when i go to safe mode the problem dissappears..i dunno what's the problem,is it the hdd or graphic card?

[Zagorka007]

I had 11 times the mother board exchanged for the very same reason on the very same laptop. It is the graphic card that can not support the good screen. Overheating problems too. If you put Win 7 the drivers will start correcting them self but it is a very frigile laptop and you can not trust that it will work when you want. Good Luck to every body with this problem! NVidia are paying to Dell for the fault.

[xhighalert]

Not the GPU, it's the connection from the internal VGA to the array of pixels on the screen.

GPU/GDDR failures look much more digitalized and generally don't show up without a GUI initialized.

[MemorysMystic]

same thing just started happening on mine. still under warranty for the next 120 days ftw!

[reply4reply]

needs reballing "the permanent fix" not reflow. the temporary fix

[cristianvantu]

the same problem twice ! I hate it.

[clorena8]

@cristianvantu

same....

[uckid4ever]

i'd say thats more of a win

[sean14916]

i have been having this problem as well. I only found out about the extended warranty today. It's insanely frustrating.