Posts by Paxan

Could you please post a photo of the screen? Also, it sounds like the problem is NOT in your video card, but in the LCD screen. (vertical lines is a common issue on 9300)

It is more of a personal preference between matte/glossy. Glossy has more clear and vivid picture, but if there is light pointed directly at the screen it will be tough to read what is on the screen. As for matte, well, the picture is...

Bought SIIG eSATA II ExpressCard from 1chaoticadult and transaction was flawless. He also helped me troubleshoot some Windows driver problems and now card works great!

Quote: Originally Posted by XCNuse check your temperatures using I8kfanGUI first. When OC'ing the worst thing you can possibly do is let your graphics card overheat which can literally kill it, thus why it shuts off...

I've seen some magic OC for nVidia Geforce Go 7900GS and yet the maximum i could get on my card with ATITool 0.26 (used it for finding artifacts, which are yellow pixels, by the way?) and RivaTuner v2.22 (for overclocking) were 443/555....

I also have Inspiron 9400 with 7900GS. Lowest I've seen was 60-65C with sinle-pipe heatsink. And it would go up to around 80C+ when using graphic-intensive applications. Bottom of the laptop was impossible to touch. So i bought...

I've seen some magic OC for nVidia Go 7900GS and yet the maximum i could get on my card with ATITool 0.26 (used it for finding artifacts, which are yellow pixels, by the way?) and RivaTuner v2.22 (for overclocking) were 443/555. If i...

Why can't you just enter your Service Tag on Dell support website and get all the right drivers? That is what I usually do.

In US isn't there some kind of charity service like Salvation Army or Big Brothers & Sisters that picks up things like this for free and delivers it to needy people? Also, over the years i found that for people to actually show up...

Yeah, it is the one. I'm also looking for the GPU fan as I have exactly the same problem as you