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    Dell 1720 Video problems

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by diggerauditor, Mar 15, 2011.

  1. diggerauditor

    diggerauditor Newbie

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    I have a Dell 1720 that I have been playing on for almost 3 years now. It runs great but this weekend I started having problems with the video. I play WoW, don't bother I've heard all the jokes lol, and it has performed great. This weekend I plugged my 24" widescreen in and my fps went down to 1-3 and at times the screen would go blank then come back and I would get a vista error notice saying that a video error has occurred with the driver and the video has been reset, happened 4 times in about an hour. I have the updated drivers from Nvidia so I'm at a lost on what my options are. Really annoying and it has never happened before. I have the Nvidia 8400M GS 128mb video card thinking that's all I would need. Is my video not able to push that monitor, my res is 1440-900, I only play the game at 1220-800 wide windowed.

    Next question, my daughter has a Dell Studio 1735 with an ATI 3650 256mb video card. Would that card work in my laptop or is there anything that would be better and relieve the issue I'm having? Any help would be appreciated...
     
    diggerauditor, Mar 15, 2011
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  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    The 8x00M series is prone to failure. That might be the issue.

    The graphics card in your daughter's laptop is not switchable with the card in your laptop.
     
    namaiki, Mar 16, 2011
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  3. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    Nick, Mar 16, 2011
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  4. TomJG90

    TomJG90 Notebook Evangelist

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    or you could buy a new laptop. Anywhere isn't there some NVIDIA program or something in which NVIDIA pays to fix your 8000 series GPU when spoilt?
     
    TomJG90, Mar 18, 2011
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