Posts by hammermd

I just don't see how Jay's fans can be running different than ours if it's truly a BIOS issue...we all have the same BIOS! I just crashed out with texture corruption and freeze from Call of Duty, and my fans were absolutely...

Oh, sorry, no...I was just putting this info out for Karl, who was the original person to identify 'texture corruption' in BF1942 w/XPS...it happens in a lot of other games as well, though, so I'm sure it's not the issue. You actually...

Okay, the ATI Catalyst 4.3 drivers were just released...I wonder if BF1942 is a good program to be testing the XPS with given that the following is stated in the release notes: * Texture corruption is no longer seen when playing the...

Whut he said...

Quote: Originally Posted by Karl UPDATE: I spoke to Marc at Dell again. He has one of the XPS engineers contacting me at 5:30PM EST today. He actually requested to speak with me about the problem. LOL! Yeah,...

Aw, heck no...I know, jws, I can't imagine it, either...in fact, I specifically asked the tech guy if there was some process running IN WINDOWS that controlled fan speed & etc., and he said definitely not...so that leaves the...

I wonder if it's because you and Nixxed did not reformat?

Karl...that's actually GOOD news...the guy I talked to had never heard of such an issue...he actually tried to tell me to update the games with patches from the web...LOL! Hopefully, we're finally being funneled to the XPS Specialized...

er...not exactly...I'd rather have the engineer call back and say, 'Man, you're an idiot...do you realize you have driver x installed instead of driver y? Pay more attention next time!' and then have the system work fine. The...

Alright, the tech support dude had me mail him a file detailing all my drivers, which he's going to send to his engineer...either the engineer or the tech support dude will call me back by end-of-business today to advise...either they'll...