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    Dell m1330 Video Card/graphics issues. Please Help!

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Blitz2007, Nov 17, 2007.

  1. Blitz2007

    Blitz2007 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok,

    So about couple weeks ago, in my system tray I have a message saying "Some Windows startup programs were blocked". Whatever, I ignored that.

    Then my laptop started to crash, screen flickered, blank screen, and then my desktop would show up again, and I would get a message saying "Display Driver nmlddmkm is not responding".

    How, my laptop crashes all the time, blank screen, green screen, when I startup it jsut goes to a green screen sometimes. Right now I am in safe mode, and it seems to be fine, which makes me suspect that it is a driver issue, and not the video card.

    My laptop is only 3 months old, so I'm kinda pissed about this.

    any ideas what I should do. I'm in the UK right now until xmas, and I bought my Dell via dell.ca (Canada), so I cant do much here either...and I dont have my Vista CD, so I can't reformat my HD without it right?

    Any help appreciated, thanks.
     
    Blitz2007, Nov 17, 2007
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  2. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    Dell laptops (at least the recent Inspirons I used) come with a restore partition where you can fully restore your hard drive back to factory condition. You can try that.

    Do you have System Restore enabled by any chance? If so try restoring to an earlier date.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Nov 17, 2007
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  3. Blitz2007

    Blitz2007 Notebook Enthusiast

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    thanks chaz for the quick response.

    How do I restore my HD back to factory condition?
     
    Blitz2007, Nov 17, 2007
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  4. yanayo

    yanayo Newbie

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    I know it's been a while since you posted re: your problem, but if it helps any, I had the exact same problem w/my Dell XPS1330. After only 6 mos. of ownership, the damn thing started to do hideous, inexplicable things (flashing, flickering screen like the house in Poltergeist, hanging/freezing, changing colors). After countless hours on the phone, on chat, and even with a technician on a housecall, Dell finally figured out it was the video card. They are sending another technician out to replace the video card and motherboard. (Waiting for appt. with technician. Crossing my fingers that this will finally resolve things for good.)
     
    yanayo, Jun 18, 2008
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  5. only

    only Notebook Evangelist

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    it might.. until another 6 mo. passes
     
    only, Jun 18, 2008
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    MegaMan X Notebook Evangelist

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    you know, your GPU is probably fried due to overheating, and that's why it crashes all the time

    You aren't the only one that has this problem, here's a 68 page thread (currently) here on NBR forums:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=204772


    And here's a semi fix if you get your motherboard replaced that you can do to help prevent this problem:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=250129
     
    MegaMan X, Jun 18, 2008
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