Posts by Retribution

Wow. This was interesting. I contact Dell Tech Support using their web chat. I tell the guy that I have a problem with my video card and that I haven't been able to figure it out despite extensive research. He tells me he is sorry,...

I have yet to see my video card get hot enough for it to be overheating. I'm gonna open a very angry line with Dell tech support. Do they even test their video cards before they send them out? -Jon

BIOS Version is 005.071.022.045.006.000 I'm assuming that's normal, though I did a quick search and couldn't find what the stock BIOS version is supposed to be. No other useful information that I could look up there. I tried...

Ya, I know what you are talking about with the levels loading. The screen occassionally goes completely haywire. I've always gotten that, so I don't worry about it. These other issues seem distinctly unrelated. Combined with the fact...

Bah, update, finally. Seems the Geforce drivers thread that was stickied at the top of the forums got removed. Anyhow, I did a complete reformat, fresh install, etc. Installed the laptop's drivers from the Dell resource CD, except the...

Ya, I think I will go that route. Hard drive is a bit cluttered anyway, hopefully it will get cleaned up. Oh, and, as I said earlier, I actually haven't overclocked my 7950gtx (the current card) because of my bad experiences with the...

My original laptop, the Gen 2 with the 6800GT actually had different issues from the new one. The 6800GT was underclocking itself at relatively low temperatures, so I was taking constant performance hits after a few minutes in a game. ...

I'm running windows XP. Well, here is the thing about the video cards that I just can't understand: On the original machine, Dell replaced the entire computer along with the video card, so in reality we can just focus on the last 2,...

Battlefield has always had some flickering, but I was under the impression that it was "bad coding." However, it is such an obvious problem that I figure I would find MANY more complaints about it, but I only found a rare few....

The highest I have seen the video card hit is 85 degrees according to i8kfangui. I force fans to full speed while running games. I'm too terrified of OC'ing after my last 2 cards fried at supposedly completely safe clocks to try it...