XPS M1210 Help needed urgently!

Hello all,

I'm in urgent need of help here... I have an XPS M1210 which is 4 months out of warranty (of course) and the laptop has now died.

The issue began when I was playing a video, the image was artifacting quite badly and after a few moments blue screened on me. I restarted, fired up the media to see if it would have the same problem ... artifacting and then blue screen yet again.

I figured a reformat was due and booted it up to backup my data. The laptop would not even boot into BIOS this time! There is power as all the LED lights and fan come on just fine, but there is NO post screen. It's not a LCD monitor issue as I've tried plugging it into several external monitors to no avail.

I've searched this up and see that others have come across this problem, but no solution.

Has anyone successfully fixed this? This a bit urgent, but I'd rather fix this properly.

My FINAL resort would be to remove the harddrive and backup it up to my desktop (which also has it share of problems... mobo died 2 days before my laptop failed , but that's a seperate issue). I'd rather not disassemble my laptop since I can never get them reassembled as tightly as they are from the factory... unless I absolutely have to.

Can anyone provide me any insight? Thank you so much in advance!

 

Sounds like your video card is on its way out.

The hard drive is very easy to remove, just four screws

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xpsM1210/en/SM/hddrive.htm#wp1123687

 

Thanks for that link atbnet!

I did another search and see that Dell may be extending the warranty. Great info, thanks again atbnet!

Very much appreciated.

 

No problem. I hate to see an M1210 on its way out. I had one and I loved it, great notebook.

 

Your video card sounds like its shot. I had a Dell tech here yesterday for the same thing. The only answer is to replace the motherboard. Even though i have a dedicated video card, it's still soldered to the motherboard. My motherboard has been replaced 3 times.