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    Strange lines and characters across my MX1210 screen...

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Rorh, Apr 7, 2009.

  1. Rorh

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    Hi. My dell mx1210 has been giving me these strange vertical lines on my screen with different characters on the text as well whenever I boot up. I suspect a graphic card driver issue b/c it usually happens only after I install the Geforce go 7400 drivers. I had already tried the latest drivers but those didn’t help either. Every now and then, even if I had uninstalled the drivers it still shows upon start up or I get blank screens later when on desktop. Is anyone familiar with this type of problem on their laptop? Unfortunately, I don’t think the graphic card is irreplaceable on this particular notebook.

    I appreciate any advice on this.
     
    Rorh, Apr 7, 2009
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    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    sounds like your GPU is overheating, as evidenced by the memory dump.
     
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    This is exactly what was happening as well. There would appear a blue screen for a quick second before it would turn blank.

    Is it fixable? Thanks.
     
    Rorh, Apr 7, 2009
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    Fwiw, just when I was about to give up, I installed powerstrip to control the clock speed and lessen some overheating. Well, after re-installing the latest nvidia drivers it seems to be back to normal. It has been several hours now and rebooted several times and, so far, the dreaded horizontal line hasn't shown...at least, for now (keeping fingers crossed)
     
    Rorh, Apr 11, 2009
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