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    video card keeps disabling on M1530

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by rhody, Jun 1, 2010.

  1. rhody

    rhody Notebook Guru

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    This has been happening out of the blue a few months ago, sometimes I will log into my m1530 after it has been on standby (no hibernation, just turns the monitor off) and I will notice the text looks fuzzy and aero glass is not working. Go into device manager and see that my 6800m gt has been disabled, re-enabling it fixes the problem but a few days later it comes back. I've tried a few different versions of laptopvideo2go's drivers, going to now try Dell's driver.

    Any ideas on what may be happening here?
     
    rhody, Jun 1, 2010
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  2. Kilador

    Kilador Notebook Consultant

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    Could be a temperature issue, a corrupted driver; or a hardware malfunction.

    - check the temperatures of it when on windows, and running a 3D game

    - try to re-install or upgrade your video driver

    - enter DELL diagnostic utilites and run the video tests

    Hope this helps a bit.
     
    Kilador, Jun 1, 2010
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