The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    I9300 3 days new..flickers

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by greenmonster, Jun 1, 2005.

  1. greenmonster

    greenmonster Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    39
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    This is 3rd exchange for me and the other 9300's booted up in a second without a flicker It happens both turned on and off. What's the flickering about besides what I think it is,a loose connection in the backlight/diplay. Definitely the display . Anyone know [?][?][?]


    GM
     
    greenmonster, Jun 1, 2005
    #1
  2. timak

    timak Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    8
    Messages:
    146
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by greenmonster
     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 8, 2015
    timak, Jun 1, 2005
    #2
  3. greenmonster

    greenmonster Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    39
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by timak
     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 8, 2015
    greenmonster, Jun 1, 2005
    #3
  4. MoZirry

    MoZirry Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    133
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    does the screen flicker completely off and on? or does it flicker in different levels of brightness?

    Do colors change as it flickers?
     
    MoZirry, Jun 1, 2005
    #4
  5. drumfu

    drumfu super modfu

    Reputations:
    436
    Messages:
    3,651
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    how long is "too long"? how often is "often" ?
     
    drumfu, Jun 1, 2005
    #5
  6. Vegas

    Vegas Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    22
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by greenmonster
     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 8, 2015
    Vegas, Jun 1, 2005
    #6
  7. greenmonster

    greenmonster Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    39
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by drumfu
     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 8, 2015
    greenmonster, Jun 3, 2005
    #7
  8. Vegas

    Vegas Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    22
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by greenmonster
     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 8, 2015
    Vegas, Jun 3, 2005
    #8
  9. greenmonster

    greenmonster Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    39
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by Vegas
     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 8, 2015
    greenmonster, Jun 3, 2005
    #9
  10. JustJimDelany

    JustJimDelany Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    11
    Messages:
    251
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    It seems to me that if you hear electrical poping (arcing) you should be on to number 4.

    I9300 2.0ghz 1.0gb ram 100gb disk 256MB NVIDIA 6800 dvd rw UXGA Bluetooth Intel WiFi Media Center
     
    JustJimDelany, Jun 3, 2005
    #10
  11. yassarian

    yassarian Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    82
    Messages:
    748
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    It does sound like a hardware issue to me, as I've subjected my poor 9300 to all sorts of torture since I got it a few months back... Never did I once encounter this issue that you are describing. I did, however, choose not to use Dell's bloatwares and did a fresh reformat. I did use Dell drivers as downloaded from their website, but my graphics driver I downloaded from video2go.com.

    If you want to be 100% certain that it's a hardware issue, reformat and reinstall the drivers, else probably easier to send it back and ask for compensation... that's what I'd do if I got 3 lemons in a row... [ :D]

    cheers,

    yass

    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by greenmonster
     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 8, 2015
    yassarian, Jun 3, 2005
    #11
  12. EricM

    EricM Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    63
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    there was nothing wrong with Vegas' advice. All he did is simply direct you to a website that walked you through it. Reinstalling the drivers as Vegas stated is a normal thing. It does not have to be done after an install. Infact you should be updating drivers every so often anyway. My guess would be either Dell's website promted you to do something wrong or you did not follow directions.

    But anyway, my advice would be to:
    #1: Install video drivers correctly
    If problem with LCD panel still exists
    #2: Call Dell, it sounds like a hardware issue.

    But, i would make sure youhave the correct divers installed and installed correctly.



    Dell Ispiron 9300
    Pentium M 1.8
    1024MB DDR2
    Go6800 256MB
     
    EricM, Jun 3, 2005
    #12
  13. Amber

    Amber Notebook Prophet NBR Reviewer

    Reputations:
    1,659
    Messages:
    5,066
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    Thank-you EricM, I was just about to say the same thing [ :D]

    Since she has so many problems with this one, I think it just needs to be sent back to Dell (again) or have a tech come out and look at it (i really don't think it would take him long to fix it).

    It doesn't sound like a major problem where Dell would have to keep it and send you a new one, but its not something that a forum can fix either.

    ~SG~
    __________________________________________________________________________________________
    Inspiron 9300 || 1.73GHz || 60GB 7200rpm ||1gb DDR2||ATI Radeon X300 64MB || CD/DVD RW || XP Pro
     
    Amber, Jun 3, 2005
    #13
  14. drumfu

    drumfu super modfu

    Reputations:
    436
    Messages:
    3,651
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    these threads are fun
     
    drumfu, Jun 3, 2005
    #14
  15. Vegas

    Vegas Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    22
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by EricM
     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 8, 2015
    Vegas, Jun 3, 2005
    #15
  16. Gargoyle

    Gargoyle Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    308
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by greenmonster
    If you think I'm sitting on the phone with dell to fix this out of hand problem. the answer is no. <hr height='1' noshade id='quote'></font id='quote'></blockquote id='quote'>

    your crazy if you keep this one I would call them back and demand either your money back or a new unit be shiped to your house.

    waiting on the phone sucks but you deserve what you paid for and for me they have been very cooperative. They have sent me out two new HD because the one that came with it didnt have the ability to go back to factory state (Ctrl-F11) and the second was just to noisy it kept ticking every time the HD was accessed.

    If I had your problems I would deff. send it back and be sturn and ask for some free upgrades for all your troubles they will cave in because they dont want to lose the sale.
     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 8, 2015
    Gargoyle, Jun 3, 2005
    #16