Posts by Medwyyn42

Just to add to the thread - on my 3rd or 4th vid card, now a 7950GTX that is failing after less than 3 months and Dell wants to replace it with a 7900GS..... I get NMI Parity Errors in 2-5 minutes of starting anything requiring 3D...

It seems to be fixed as of right now, with a second motherboard and 2 new fans. Way to go Dell.

That's about what I thought. Parts to ship has motherboard and cpu fan only....

Well, they were going to pull it back to the depot, but are now going to replace the motherboard (second time) and the fans. I hope this works.

Well, I'm in good shape here, if good shape means a system that won't boot. Tech put in new motherboard and video card, entered the service tag, rebooted right into a hard lock. Safe mode, normal, all hard locked within a few minutes of...

Yep, dual pipe on both GS's, single on the 7800, all fried with no overclock, on a cooler, cleaned out every month. Woodstock, I'd read through your horror story earlier, and hoped that wouldn't happen to me. All said, I've (so far)...

So I've joined the legion of M1710 users that have had their video card crap out on them. Typical green lines and bars results in chat to XPS support to have 7900GS replaced. That lasted ~ 2 weeks. Dust cleaned out every month, on a...

I went polite. Worked for me, but escalating has helped some people to get systems faster. In respect to the post by Leeer73: I see your point, a 1 for 1 trade. I was more than a little tired when I posted last night. Thanks.

Could be that they finally received my old system back; but I sent it a few weeks ago, and the "negative" unit matched the replacement I had already received, just with a different order number. I think it took about 2 weeks to...

Thanks for the replies. I'll try to give my contact a call tomorrow if I have any downtime at work.