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XPS 1730 with video card issue

Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by grey_hammer777, Nov 3, 2010.

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I have an XPS 1730 with what looks like a failing XM888 8800GTX video card. The machine will POST fine and load windows, but when I log in to the machine bluescreens with error code 0x00124. I was able to boot into safemode which works fine, uninstall the Nvidia driver and the machine was able to boot into Windows relatively properly. Now my device manager shows having a standard VGA video adapter. I even reinstalled the latest Nvidia driver and the blue screen problem returned.

I checked and the card is $1100.00 to replace from Dell. Does anyone have any good ideas about how to proceed?

By the way the machine is out of warranty, so that's not an option.

grey_hammer777, Nov 3, 2010

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I have heard that the latest nVidia driver is the culprit. My XPS 1730 blue-screened with a graphics card error for the very first time just last week. I was playing EQ2 at the time. It hasn't happened since, but if it does happen again, I am going to roll back to an earlier version driver.

Tikatika, Nov 3, 2010

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Yep - I had some BS and other problems with 260,99 . Revert back to stock 179.XX from Dell website . Runs fine.

Consi Pit, Nov 8, 2010

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