My DELL XPS M170 is now useless. All of a sudden it goes from brilliant laptop to a blury screen that moves black blocks around the scren and switches on and off.
The black scren, distorted picture, and ability to turn on and off at will happen intermitently from perfect piture to illegible.
Its not Win XP Pro or Ubuntu either moving away from a graphics problem as the screen messes up on boot, in BIOS, and even the DELL diagnostic utility which has told me that my hard drive has a problem. Even though Windows boots and works fine.
It always did overheat and I guess after about 4 years it had had enough. I took it to pieces, cleaned it, and put it backl together to no avail.
Gonna have to go looking for a new laptop I guess. Would rather have had a choice in the matter as it was getting a wee bit old for my liking but worked a treat.
Its dificult to find a replacement graphics card and I dont want to waste money on a new hard drive or compatible graphics card if its not going to work. This money could go nicely towards a new one.
My XPS is wrecked too
My DELL XPS M170 is now useless. All of a sudden it goes from brilliant laptop to a blury screen that moves black blocks around the scren and switches on and off.
The black scren, distorted picture, and ability to turn on and off at will happen intermitently from perfect piture to illegible.
Its not Win XP Pro or Ubuntu either moving away from a graphics problem as the screen messes up on boot, in BIOS, and even the DELL diagnostic utility which has told me that my hard drive has a problem. Even though Windows boots and works fine.
It always did overheat and I guess after about 4 years it had had enough. I took it to pieces, cleaned it, and put it backl together to no avail.
Gonna have to go looking for a new laptop I guess. Would rather have had a choice in the matter as it was getting a wee bit old for my liking but worked a treat.
Its dificult to find a replacement graphics card and I dont want to waste money on a new hard drive or compatible graphics card if its not going to work. This money could go nicely towards a new one.
Aww well, end of rant.