Posts by ajrettke

Looks good, should be solid for a while with 4gb of RAM and a dual core! Congrats

New to this thread, but I'm all about dells! May not be sexy, but I've loved everyone I've owned!

well if the card doesn't work it doens't work. Why not take the shot at baking it?

That's a funny story! good thing you got accident insurance. How much are they offering you for the laptop? It might be best to take the refund and get a new one!

Can you do anything with a bad 7900GS for the E1705? I sent mine to the place that tries to repair the RAM but they couldn't do anything to it. Is the card worth anything?

Ahh I was able to solve it! It wasn't seated right apparently....I reaseted the card and now it's working like a charm!

I swapped the RAM around with some 512 modules and also tried single DIMM's and still getting the same problem... I did some digging and saw some screen shots of the exact same problem I'm having and it's definitly the video card...

Hey all, I have a 1705 with 2x1gb RAM, and a 7900GS. Every now and then the computer BSOD's and says memory parity error. Is this my RAM or the video card? I can't seem to find a strait answer. I also get random vertical lines on...

Hey all, I tried searching and found some references but nothing with a solution. When it starts up the "9" is on solid and the "A" and down arrow are flashing and the screen isn't turning on. Is the motherboard...

There's really no reason to have a quad in a laptop unless it's going to be a workstation and you need to do a lot of photshopping or encoding. And comparing the speeds you listed, dual 3.0 vs quad 1.6 it's a no brainer, go dual. Even...