My graphics card disappears sometimes....

Sometimes, but not all the time I would say about 20% of the time when I turn on my computer the gt335 does not show up. Also the graphics mode does not show up and I am unable to switch to it with ctrl+f6. I have the "latest" driver from Dell. To fix the problem I have to restart my computer then it magically works again. It is starting to get annoying especially since I usually use my netbook to game. Anyone else have this problem or know Ihow to fix it?

 

Sounds like a software issue. Best bet is to do a clean install to rule that out, but again, it sounds a lot like a software issue. Unless your M11x lived a hard life and had participated in some extreme sports like table jumping, hot potato etc.

Or its actually something to do with quantum mechanics. You need a physicist for that.

 

ing physicists who the hell do they think they are.

 

I installed the latest driver which enables 3d which I will never use, but I have noticed a huge decline in battery life. But whatever, I have not had my non integrated card shut off since. So new driver that sucks my battery life works. Never a easy fix...

 

Yep seems like the R1, and yes I also have had plenty of issues swapping - now run discrete only and get beep errors on boot-up - just seems the R1 had lots of issues if you were unlucky and had the one built on a Friday.

Try a clean install and cross fingers there is nothing else you can do.

 

i had this issue when OCed (via pinmod). tried all kinda of stuff... nothing worked.

switched out RAM and the issue went away. in short the RAM was bad.

hope that helps.