ive change the thermal paste of my m1530, before closing the lid up, i forgot to plug in the fan socket, thus leaving my laptop without the fan on. After a while, when i felt the lappy is hot, suddenly i realized i forgot to plug in the fan socket.
however, the damage has been done, according to gpu-z, my gpu temp went up to 93c, and it took 30 minutes for it to increase from 80c to 93c.
I've just bought a DELL XPS M1530 and I'm so worried about the error of Geforce 8600GT Video Card that DELL and nVIDIA has reported!
So would you mind giving me a suggest of updating new driver for my video card? If in case I should update my graphic card, please share me the lastest driver for my Geforce 8600GT.
I have the Dell XPS M1530 laptop, and of course the motherboard is fried.
The laptop is no longer covered by warranty, and I dont want to buy a new mobo from Dell, because they charge a ridiculous amount of money.
Where can I buy a new mobo with the new non-faulty Nvidia chip? I don't want to buy one of the original ones because it will just overheat from the chip and burn up again.
I currently have an XPS m1530 with the WXGA glossy screen (1280x800) and was looking to replace it with the WUXGA screen (nothing wrong with the current screen; just need more resolution.)
Questions:
1. Can I just do a simple swap? In other words, do I have to worry about details like video card etc.?
2. What are the questions that I need to ask before buying one? (e.g. Manufacturer, warranty, brightness, type etc.?)
3. Glossy vs non-glossy - please let me know your opinions
4. Would the ones sold on eBay (links below) work fine? .....
I had a bad experience with DELL.At the end of last year I bought a XPS M1530. At first it was ok, then it started to have a strange behavior:
sometimes it didn't want to switch on, in these cases I had to wait for the battery to empty completely and when it could switch on again, one could notice that the clock had stopped working in the meanwhile.
At a certain point I directly got the dreaded "time-of-day-clock-stopped" screen, with consequent block of the computer.
I thought I had found the solution when I changed the clock battery and computer started work again.
However, after some time the same problems appeared and at the end the same message of "time-of-day".....
Ok so I had a problem with my M1530 when it refused boot up. (black screen upon power up; not a display/screen issue)
So I called in for a repair and I had a technician come out on 2 different occasions to try to fix it once for a motherboard and second time for CPU/RAM. Both times the problem wasn't fixed so I shipped it to Dell for a repair .....
I had a chat recently with a Dell rep and he said that basically the only way to get any sort of warranty (in Canada) is to show definitive signs of malfunction on the GPU.
Recently the left side of my computer has been incredibly hot, and annoying to lay my wrists on the palm rest areas (ironic, I know).
Anyway he told me to do the FN + power button combination to boot up and it would run the diagnostic test to determine if anything was wrong .....
If the case is (insignificantly) dented, do they refuse warranty?
Does opening the laptop and changing thermal paste void the warranty? Can they see if I have opened the case or not?
If so, where can I get _genuine_ screws for my XPS M1530 laptop? I'm thinking about the screws which holds down the CPU/GPU/Motherboard plate (2 different types), and the ones that holds down the CPU cooler. Ebay is OK, but it must have international shipping.
I'm planning on changing the thermal compound on my M1530's CPU and GPU as my temps are getting pretty high when playing Medieval 2: Total War. I am getting high 80 degrees on both CPU and GPU.
The thing is I have never changed thermal compund before and I obviously want to get it right!
I have tried to find a tutorial, but I can't. Well I did find this but the link is dead.
I have heard about the 'grain of rice' and 'credit card' methods, but they are a bit vague
I received a replacement hard drive, but the description says it is a 250GB 5400 RPM hard drive. The hard drive I have on the system is 250 GB 7200 RPM. I also checked further specifications on the internet.
The replacement Toshiba 250GB hard drive (MK2552GSX) has 8mb buffer while the hard drive currently on the system Seagate 250 GB (ST9250421ASG ) has 16mb buffer.
Has anyone receieved a weaker hard drive as a replacement. I have to return one of them as part of the warranty service
I have problem with my video card in inspiron 9400.It's overheated.I can use just in a lowest resolution.there is a lot of strange symbols and squares on the screen.I have few questions.
Do you now how to fix it?Is it gpu to change?I have some skills to change some elements on the bord but i dont't now what to change.I dont need so good video card,
so maybe anybody have some cheap video card to sell?Or do you now any service where i can fix it ( ireland, uk).I have not so much money to buy new one because they are very expensive.So please if anybody can answer my question.
I owned Insipron 14 R since 2.5 years. Now a days I am facing one problem its getting EXTREMELY OVER HEAT  and getting instant off within 20 minutes.Â
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am using dell insprion 13Z (5323).. purchased 5 months back. When ever I charge the laptop it gets over heated. I have also used inspiron 1464 and latitude as well. But I haven't come across this sort of problem with them.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi was playing Zuma Deluxe, and the lappy just shut down by itself. I felt the HDD section (in front, just under touchpad), and it was blazing hot. painful to touch even. the nearby RAM section was also blazing. im not sure why that is so, coz Zuma is nowhere near the most intensive game in the world, and my lappy should be more than adequate to handle that.
Acer Aspire 4935 specs:
Intel C2D T5800 2GHz (stock clock) Merom
3GB RAM (upgraded from 1GB. Slot 0: Kingston 2GB KVR, Slot 1: factory Samsung 1GB)
Intel GM45 Cantiga (Centrino, not centrino 2), GMA4500MHD (1309MB, 64MB dedicated)
i played nfs and my laptop overheated and turned off fan was very loud. is there a way that i could buy a new fan or new graphic card i have Gfroce 8600gt 512 is there any graphic card beter one that doesent heat up so much?
View 10 Replies View Relatedin the m1720 config page for my country, dell is offering the following graphics cards:
128MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GS [add $160]
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT [add $250]
are these better than the 7950GTX?
im new to the forum...
i just got a dell vostro 1510 with
t8300 2.4ghz
256mb nvidia 8400gs
250gb hdd
my user index is only 3.5
n now aftr researching the forums i got 2 know that there is a huge difference in
these 2 graphics cards...n i want to play games like crysis n assasins creed....n i dint know tht merely model nos can make so much of difference..
so is there any way i can change my graphic card to 8600gt...?
see bellow print screen photo of two laptops Model M1530
1- what is the difference ?
2- what is the best ?
3- what is the one able to play most games ?
i just had my motherboard replace coz not getting any display and the tech support was trying to convince me that is not the issue with the 8600gt on my m1530 cuz im not getting any vertical lines.
furthermore, they told me (which i called 2 other tech rep to confirm this, which added up total of 3) that dell has asked dell to make them new non-defective 3d card on new material
Not had my lappy long but just wanted to know what head room these cards have?
Current speeds below, just wanted to know what others had overclocked their's to with Rivatuner? Also the best application to monitor card temps too?
Core Clock = 475
Shader Clock = 950
Memory Clock = 702
I have a (long out-of-warranty) X100e of the dual-core model (notorious for running hot), which I have been running Linux on; the issue in question is hardware-related, though...
I've been trying to get an amd64 kernel going, with some issues. So I booted an amd64 kernel with init=/bin/sh, tried getting wireless going, and figured that I needed a different kernel, which I set about compiling...
The laptop reached 92 C and apparently tried to shutdown, but apparently shutdown does not work right if init is not running. So I came back to find it still running, at ~65 C, but with messages to the effect that it had reached 94 C on the screen. I put the fan on full bore, left it running for a while, then turned it off.
Now, here's the problem: When I tried to turn it on (battery in place, plugged in), the green light around the power button just started blinking slowly (about once per second), with the fan intermittently attempting to start (very short bits of an almost whining noise). There was no indication of any signal reaching the display/of the bios starting.
The power light stays green while it is plugged in. Same symptoms when the battery is removed and it is plugged in. With battery only, the power button blinks on when pressed, then turns off. The fan turns on briefly once. Then it turns off. The power light in front blinks on and then turns off
So far, I've tried several variants of "hold down the power button while unplugged with the battery removed." All of that has been to no effect. Looking through the HMM does not indicate anything as far as what might cause this.
so i got some good responses (thanks again slowdown117) from my previous thread about the temps on my 8600gt soaring as of late, and i figured the chipset was biting the dust. but turns out she still had some life in her.
decided i didnt want to wait on an order of arctic silver 5, so i went down to compusa and picked up some compressed air and a tube of ocz freeze thermal extreme conductivity compound. the reviews online for it are solid, and it was only 5 bucks, so i was sold ...
I've got a new Dell Vostro 1500 with the Nvidia 8600M GT video card, and when I add a 2nd monitor to my display, the resolution of my laptop monitor drops to 1280x800. Anyone had this problem and know how to fix it? The 2nd monitor is an AOC 22LVWk, haven't tried it with any others yet.
View 15 Replies View RelatedUsed it on my 8600gt that had burnt out out of warranty, gas mark 6 for 8 minutes and it fixed the degraded performance.
View 6 Replies View RelatedJust tried it. 8minutes at gas mark 6.25, and my degraded performance and deteriorated fps is fixed.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm having a tough time replacing the hard drive in my dell xt. The hard drive (a pata 80gb) started stuttering so I had a replacement sent out.
The replacement has a cable that is a female connector and my connector from the motherboard is a female also so it won't connect.
My original connector had sensitive copper pins that I broke when doing this install so I can't use that one.
I have an m1710 with complete care and I accidently spilled coke on it while it was still on. It now doesnt turn on anymore. I wanted to know if dell will fix it with spare parts or give me a replacement like m17x?
View 4 Replies View Relatedi have an xps m1530 for 6 months now and i have no issues with its 8600gt, however im worried as it will fail as time goes on.
so my question is, does dell/nvidia had fix the soldering issue on its 8 series cards ?
if i would ask for a replacement, would i get a new 8600gt GPU or the old-waiting-to-defect 8600gt card ?
I read lots of people getting replacements for their 2-4 yr old laptops with Dell warranty. I've been using my e1505 since June 2007 and just ordered 1558 last weekend, but with only 1-yr basic warranty.
Which warranties are those people using? Premium or Advanced? Which is comparable to "Complete Care"? Also, would it be cheaper to buy more expensive warranty at the checkout or buy extension once I receive the system?
Warranties cost only a few hundred dollars and people just seem to be getting amazing replacement laptops, like e1505 to SXPS 16.
so i had a e1705 that went bad so i got a new xps 1730 as replacement. so it has been acting up where it will shutoff while working for no reason and from what i have read most xps problems become nightmares so if for wot eva reason dell can not fix my 1730 what will dell replace it with?
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