The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    M1710 Questions

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by dave0holla, Jul 13, 2006.

  1. dave0holla

    dave0holla Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    -2
    Messages:
    64
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    When i recvd my comp i could close the lid and the lcd would go off, now it will not. i have not done a fresh reinstall(not interested). I think it is a driver issue...any ideas which driver i would need to reinstall?
     
    dave0holla, Jul 13, 2006
    #1
  2. Roaddy

    Roaddy Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    25
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    its an issue with your power settings.

    go to quickset, gaming, then the power schemes tab, all the stuff is there
     
    Roaddy, Jul 13, 2006
    #2
  3. Amber

    Amber Notebook Prophet NBR Reviewer

    Reputations:
    1,659
    Messages:
    5,066
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    if you have ATI video card, then you need to set "ati hot poller" in services.msc to automatic (reboot)
     
    Amber, Jul 13, 2006
    #3
  4. xAMDvsIntelx

    xAMDvsIntelx Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    464
    Messages:
    3,221
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    Well, if its a M1710, he probably has an Nvidia GPU.

    Roaddy is probably right - you'll have to play with your power settings to make the screen go off. A restart might help if you haven't done that in a while.
     
    xAMDvsIntelx, Jul 13, 2006
    #4
  5. Amber

    Amber Notebook Prophet NBR Reviewer

    Reputations:
    1,659
    Messages:
    5,066
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    LOL, yeah, sorry. I get the M1710 mixed up with the E1705 since the numbering is so similar. Ignore what i said.
     
    Amber, Jul 13, 2006
    #5
  6. mZimm

    mZimm Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    144
    Messages:
    575
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    See my post in this thread. My guess is that you did the same thing as me - it worked when you got it, but you reformatted the system and proceeded to install a non-Dell video card driver.
     
    mZimm, Jul 13, 2006
    #6
  7. dave0holla

    dave0holla Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    -2
    Messages:
    64
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    thanks all...i reinstalled the display driver and now it works...sorry i didn't reply sooner!!!
     
    dave0holla, Jul 17, 2006
    #7