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    Diagnostic software for the GTX 280M cards?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by wornways, Aug 27, 2010.

  1. wornways

    wornways Notebook Geek

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    I just ran the Dell diagnostics from CD and there were no problems found with the video chipset. But it also doesn't tell me what it's testing. I think it's just testing the onboard video chipset and memory.

    Is there a diagnostic package that I can use to explicitly test the GTX 280M cards?
     
    wornways, Aug 27, 2010
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    dave-p Notebook Deity

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    bewteen the dell test programs which do test the GPU memory, the other thing I would try is simple things like benchmark apps like #mMark06, Vantage, etc and run the GPU under load and look for any problems with teh images.

    There is not really any more to test on a GPU
     
    dave-p, Aug 28, 2010
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