Posts by joybrady

I was mistaken. The two dedicated cards were AMD video cards. The GeForce was the integrated I guess. I took the laptop into a friend who has a computer repair shop. He used the heat gun on each video card. He tried them together. He...

Since Im getting horizontal scrambling across the screen, and the video card is the culprit, how do I replace it? They are saying I need to go to Dell, because NVidia cant sell laptop cards. What can I do? What do I look for? When I...

What's my best bet for a video card replacement, just in case? Should I get an identical one, since video cards are so expensive? I dont want to have to upgrade my hard drive, RAM, and video card..........not yet at least. I will wait...

Well the only problem there is that I cant read anything in the bios screen. I took a video with my iphone and paused it on playback, and it does look to be A07. But my video is completely messed up. Does that mean it needs to be...

I was only sent the motherboard. No info with it. How can I tell what version of bios it is? I was just going to reformat it, but the when I changed out the motherboard but it still has a black screen. It wouldnt allow me to power...

I bought a new motherboard. (Same as other one), and it's put back together.Do I need to use that bios on a flash drive, to flash it again, the correct way, or can i just install cd to reinstall windows?  

Long story short....Got a $3K XPS back in 2007, but ever since I received it, it crapped out on me, and Dell replaced it a few times, then sent me an Alienware. Dead, right out of the box.........after a few more, I just gave up. My...