Dell :: BSOD After Upgrading I9400 To A NV7900gs
Sep 9, 2007
I upgraded my inspiron to a 7900 gs from x1400 a while back now (3months ago) and it has been running smoothly (games like quake 4/lotro at high graphics).
However, i have recently started playing Bioshock and after about 10 minutes of gameplay i got a blue screen of death with the following error:
Tried to write to read only memory (or something along those lines)
It specifies a NV4.dsp file
Was wondering if it is a driver problem or hardware?(running bioshock on high settings by the way (1440x900 res) and when it does run it runs well - a very playable 30-60fps)
One thing to note is that i didnt format when upgrading the video card - could there be conflicting drivers?
My sys specs are as follows :
intel duo t2400 (1.83)
2gig 667 ram
nvidia (dual pipe) 7900 gs (running stock on Mobile Force drivers).........
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Aug 16, 2007
I was on here this afternoon trying to find a thread that shows some good overclocks people have gotten with the Geforce GO 7800 that is in my Inspiron 9400. But sometimes i swear I am the last person on this planet who actually HAS this card still. Not a GTS, GS, etc etc. Just a plain old severely underclocked to 250 GO 7800...
Has everyone managed to get a GS or 7900 or GTS or any of the other variations of cards the 9400 has had over the past year to two years? Everyone but me?
I have heard of people getting Dell to replace thier 7800 with 7800s but the last post I found about that was like a year old.
What could I ask Dell to replace mine with if I was to talk with them via chat? I would love any help in this matter. Everytime I game with my laptop I overclock it, but then I put it back to normal. Kind of a pain, and of course I hate how hot it gets.
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Sep 28, 2007
way to get the Inspiron E1705/9400 to accept more memory? Dell says the max is 2gb but an XPS m1710 has 4gb. Is it just a matter of flashing the BIOS? Or should I be able to pop 4gb in it and that's it? I want to make sure I can get it to accept it before I buy it.
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Sep 25, 2007
I've only had my Inspiron 9400 since May. I have used it on both battery and power, but most of the time power. Recently I've had to start using the battery more, from 100% charge showing if I unplug it from the power, it immidietly drops to 90% but shows I have about 2 hours of play. Is this just a dud battery. I have had dell previously and my battery was fantastic, even 3 years after buying it.
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Feb 14, 2010
My friend has Inspiron 9400 that's on its last legs, it keeps turning off at random times, graphics on screen sometimes become corrupted. The laptop does not seem to be overheating and the fans are clean.
We've contacted Dell as he has a 3yr Complete care package, he's had the HDD replaced multiple times. The last time he sent in the laptop for serving they returned it with nothing fixed, they said they replaced the fans but the fans are still the original ones as I accidentally scratched the bottom side of the fans and they're the exact same one .....
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Feb 24, 2009
I can't find cards anywhere, used or new! My GTX in one 9400 bit the dust this morning and my GS bit the dust 2 weeks ago (I have a few 9400's). I need to get some replacement cards but can't find them anywhere and woul
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Sep 6, 2007
Well the black keyboard that comes on the 9400/E1705 is a tad bit too loud for my taste. I was thinking of swapping it out for the M1710 keyboard, if its any quieter. At least mine here on the 9400 you can hear a mile away if you're typing away, and the "Enter" key is especially noisy.
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Jan 1, 2008
My i9400 died last Tuesday. While sitting idle on a marble topped end table the fans went wide open for 15 seconds and then it just turned off. Not shut down, just dead. I went to bed figuring this must have been an overheat protection shutdown and tried to crank it up the next day and nothing. Hit the power button and the green light blips once and thats it.
I have the top of the line warranty and next day service so Dell came out 2 days later (not next day but close enough at first) and replaced the MB and fans. This got us nowhere. He gets on the phone with Dell and they send another MB and Processor as well for the next day.
Visit two with another MB and new processor produced nothing again. The field tech (pretty knowledgeable) said that this would have to go back to dell and that I needed to call them.
So I call them and they say that a third visit would be required I said fine send whoever, this thing is not coming back to life and my business is being severely hampered by this notebook being down. They try to re-diagnose over the phone and corectly come to the conclusion (again) that the computer is toast.
My problem is this: They finally conceded to me returning this $4000 brick to them but I could not get a i9400 loaner overnighted to throw my HD in to get back up. I've got my HD out and in an external enclosure but this really slows things down finding files and loading apps on another computer that is already slower to start with.
I've got a business to run and it is running slower with this laptop being down. I was told by Dell it would take 2 days to get a box to return the computer in and then 5-8 days to repair it and then shipping after that. An exchange would be up to 2 weeks total turnaround time...........
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Mar 15, 2009
I got the infamous blue error screen today; interestingly, it happened as I was just sitting here watching utorrent do its thing....
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Feb 20, 2010
My 1730 is not cooperating this morning. Been trying to figure out why Im having a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) everytime I try to open anything. It even crashed during a system restore and also during a power off at the Windows is Shutting Down screen.
Things had been working great up until last night. I was reading something on a webpage when I got a pop up window on the page I was on, and when I clicked the window closed, I crashed to blue screen of death.
Haven't been able to do much since then. Not sure if its hardware or software related, but I do notice that my McAfee isn't running now and when I try to update it says 'Components Are Missing' and to reinstall.
Can't get far enough in a reinstall before I crash again, so thats getting me no where.
I was able to do a system restore to a day earlier, but the problem is still there.
I also have no way to network in safe mode due to only having wireless internet access.
If anyone has any suggestions on where to get help to find out what might be causing the problem. Please let me know. I can follow instruction if anyone can walk me through what I need to look for.
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My 9months old XPS M1530 has still got the BSOD problem (after being replaced the faulty RAM). this morning i got the problem again but as i was dashing to my work i didn't take a note of the screen.
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Aug 27, 2009
A problem cropping up more and more of late is a BSOD when the machine is coming out of sleep mode, or when the hood is lifted after sleep mode.
The cause of this has been determined to be a Microsoft update patch.
See this thread on the Dell Forums about people having the problem and it's resolution:
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I know people have had issues with the SXPS13 having the blue screen but my blue screen occurs whenever I do a windows update or install a newer video card driver.
I've read posts and none have helped in this particular issue.
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I read threads where people have had no issue installing them on sxps13's and received better video performance. I guess my question is: should I waste my time battling with dell to receive another lemon unit that will take a month to ship to me again, never ever ever upgrade my video drivers or possibly I don't have a bad unit
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Feb 6, 2010
new to this forum but not to pc's / laptops
im having a problem while playing games on my XPS 1730 with 8800gtx Sli while playing WoW..
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I decided to pick up Black and White 2 again since I have nothing better to do with my time but wreak havoc or maybe some good, haven't decided yet.
..anyways
I start the game (patched and up to date) and everything's fine until I hit a new cutscene, then the game freezes up and after a few moments I get my most favorite thing in the world: BSOD ()
Regular text "blah blah blah failed you suck at life uninstall kthxbye" It says the error is caused from nvlddmkm.sys.
I did some google-ing and came back with some kind of incompatibility between vista and nvidia drivers. I'm fully updated to SP1, I have the 177.70 forceware drivers; I've tried it with other drivers but it's still not working. Ive patched the game, tried it overclocking and not, and nothing seems to work.
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Feb 2, 2010
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Then I decided to do a fresh clean install of XP, but when I tried to delete that partition, BSOD. I booted up again from the XP CD, I found it had been deleted. So I made a new partition, and format it (NTFS - slow method), but when it got into the middle of copying the files, it said it can't copy the files.
In the moment, I am formatting the hard drive into massive one, instead of two partition. I doubt it that it will work.
What's the problem with my Dell Latitude D600?
Do you think that's the hd?
Just FYI, before this happen, I was thinking of upgrading the hd into bigger hd.
Edit: Yup, it failed. Btw, my D600 is at least 5 years old, original hd.
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So I was on google looking for a new wallpaper through google images and all of the sudden WHAM, The Blue Screen of F'n Death!!!
Problem signature:
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Locale ID:1033
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*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xBACCB524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
I restarted and ran the full diagnostic suite, passed everything just fine. I then checked the HDD by pulling it and putting it in a spare D830. It started up fine. I even put the D830 HDD in the xps to see if anything different would happen; same error.
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Oct 24, 2009
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Quote:
- System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
[ Guid] {331c3b3a-2005-44c2-ac5e-77220c37d6b4}
EventID 41
Version 0
Level 1
Task 0
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x8000000000000002
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2009-10-24T23:12:33.778Z
EventRecordID 52019
Correlation .....
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Jan 6, 2009
I've been reading this forum for a while just havent had a reason to post until now. I got my Studio 1735 in September with an ATI 3650 video card.
Recently i've started using an external monitor also from dell. Rather annoyingly every so often the screens start flickering and it says that the video driver has failed.
After that I get the BSOD. I've tried updating to the newest video drivers on dell site and it didnt change anything.
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