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    XPS M1330 problems!

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by laowai, Apr 21, 2008.

  1. laowai

    laowai Newbie

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    I have a 6 month old XPS M1330. Last month, at startup the screen came on as a pattern of Green and Black vertical lines. Thanks for members help I communicated to Dell about the problem, an engineer came round and replaced the motherboard - it worked great for 2 weeks!!
    Now it is going crazy - suddenly a message comes on 'Display Driver stopped responding', switching off it would restart and work for a few minutes until it stopped again and a similar message appeared - on one time it said it had 'fixed the problem', then it happened again. The screen then went down and on came a message 'Hardware Malfunction. NMI: parity check/memory parity error. 'Call hardware vendor for support'.
    Twice also the screen just went black.

    Any ideas. Should I call the man from Dell again?

    Thamnks for any help

    'laowai'
     
    laowai, Apr 21, 2008
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  2. jujube

    jujube Notebook Deity

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    sounds like they should've replaced your gpu as well. I would call them up while you are still under warranty and have either the gpu replaced or get a new m1330
     
    jujube, Apr 21, 2008
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  3. Denkus

    Denkus Notebook Enthusiast

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    if any problem happens just call dell.

    They will helpyou fix it.

    the worst thing that can happen is that you get a new machine.
     
    Denkus, Apr 21, 2008
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