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    Laptop screen shuts down after several minutes of use (XPS M1530)

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by shortduderay, Mar 4, 2011.

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    shortduderay Notebook Geek NBR Reviewer

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    Hi everyone,

    My XPS M1530 has served me well over the past two years, but early this week, the screen would shut down after 10-15 minutes of use. When the screen shuts down, nothing is responsive (I can't put it to sleep, any sound that is playing "stutters", I can't switch it to an external monitor), leading me to believe that it isn't a loose cable problem. Right now, I have my laptop hooked up to an external monitor, and it works perfectly fine, but if I try using my laptop without the external screen, it still crashes on me. I don't know what the problem is, so does anyone here have any clue? I don't want to spend a lot of money for something that won't fix my laptop... Thanks!
     
    shortduderay, Mar 4, 2011
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    Vanti Notebook Enthusiast

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    First thing that comes to mind is drivers. Sounds to me like your graphics cards does not have an auto recover option when the video card gets stuck in a loop. Generally you would see this type of behavior when playing a PC game. The freezing screen, stuttering audio and so forth. Try to find another set of drivers. If the new set you obtain basically causes you the same problems, roll back to older ones until you find one that is stable. Just my thoughts.
     
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    shortduderay Notebook Geek NBR Reviewer

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    Hm... I tried changing my graphics drivers to see if it was a driver problem, but it goes into the unresponsive state only when I don't connect it to an external monitor, and it happens even when I'm doing basic tasks, such as web-surfing...
     
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    BUMP...

    I would appreciate it if anyone could help me with this, so I could decided if I need a new laptop or not...
     
    shortduderay, Mar 7, 2011
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