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    XPS M170 Video Question

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by awentz66, Aug 5, 2009.

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    awentz66 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Should the laptop power on without a video card installed? I had the artifacting on my screen and removed the card and added new thermal paste after cleaning off the old pad. It ran great for awhile and I assume it finally died on me. Now even if I remove the card the laptop will not power on at all either on a known good battery or a/c power??? So the mb is probably dead now also?
     
    awentz66, Aug 5, 2009
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