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    E1705 Wont Boot, Memory Problems

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by scriccs, Oct 26, 2007.

  1. scriccs

    scriccs Notebook Consultant

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    I woke up from my nap today to see my 1 year old E1705 with the blue screen of death, except this time there were verticle lines all over the place like there was a video card problem.

    So I reboot and It cant get into windows, and the lines come back. It starts to load vista then goes to the blue screen saying I have a memory/parity error. Next I try safemode and it works fine. No lines, no memory errors, no blue screens.

    The first thing that came to mind is my overclocked 7900GS. Right now I am in the process of setting it back to the stock clocks. I feel like maybe I fried my beloved card with the slight overclock Ive had on it for the past year. Maybe Im right, maybe Im wrong.

    If this doesnt work, what the heck do I do? Any ideas? Video card? Memory? I dont want to have to call Dell. What do you guys think?

    Thanks.
     
    scriccs, Oct 26, 2007
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