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7900GS dead? E1705 Problems, need help!

post #1 of 58
10/26/07 at 1:46pm
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I woke up from my nap today to see my 1 year old E1705 with the blue screen of death, except this time there were verticle lines all over the place like there was a video card problem.

So I reboot and It cant get into windows, and the lines come back. It starts to load vista then goes to the blue screen saying I have a memory/parity error. Next I try safemode and it works fine. No lines, no memory errors, no blue screens.

The first thing that came to mind is my overclocked 7900GS. Right now I am in the process of setting it back to the stock clocks. I feel like maybe I fried my beloved card with the slight overclock Ive had on it for the past year. Maybe Im right, maybe Im wrong.

If this doesnt work, what the heck do I do? Any ideas? Video card? Memory? I dont want to have to call Dell. What do you guys think?

Thanks.
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Dell Inspiron E1705
T2300E 1.66ghz
2 gig 667 mhz
NVIDIA 256mb 7900gs
(470C 1100M)
80 gig HD
LG WUXGA w/ TrueLife
Vista Home Premium
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post #2 of 58
10/26/07 at 2:23pm
Unfortunately, it is probably your video card man. It isn't very safe to overclock a laptop GPU, since there isn't sufficient cooling provided like desktops. I hope that you still have warranty, and hope that it's not been voided by your overclocking??
Edit: But, try setting it back to to stock settings and see if it still works..it still might not be too late.
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post #3 of 58
10/26/07 at 2:59pm
You're not going to fry your GPU with a slight overclock. If it was fried, you would get no GUI. E1705's have no on-board video memory. I've gotten that memory parity error from shitty drivers. What driver are/were you using?
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post #4 of 58
10/26/07 at 4:04pm
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Originally Posted by TurbodTalon View Post
You're not going to fry your GPU with a slight overclock. If it was fried, you would get no GUI. E1705's have no on-board video memory. I've gotten that memory parity error from shitty drivers. What driver are/were you using?
Well, it depends on how much you overclocked. And how you have been overclocking because a long time can slowly "boil" the GPU. If their are lines and artifacts, it means that your GPU is damaged in some way. If it works in Safemode because in safemode your computer doesn't use the nvidia drivers but the VGA default drivers... But, it could also mean that the drivers. Have you been using the same drivers lately?? But, like I said, try running on stock settings and see if it helps out.
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post #5 of 58
10/28/07 at 6:02pm
Well bro, my card just died yesterday and I get lines and artifacts even on boot-up. In DOS mode its just a bunch of random letters and such and its hard to read anything. I can't boot into normal windows but I can in safe mode and I continue to have artifacts and such so I am assuming I have shot my card. I had my 7900 gs overclocked for about a year as well on about a medium overclock so it is possible your card is damaged.
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post #6 of 58
10/28/07 at 7:14pm
Man...that sucks for you +. What are you going to do now? Do you still have warranty to replace it??
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post #7 of 58
10/28/07 at 8:57pm
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Originally Posted by Spartan-117 View Post
Man...that sucks for you +. What are you going to do now? Do you still have warranty to replace it??
If that question was directed to me, then no lol..no warranty, I'm an idiot I know... I'm just going to have to bite the bullet on this one. -eL
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post #8 of 58
10/29/07 at 12:20pm
sriccs If your under warranty Call Dell, not sure why you would not want to. It would be covered, and If your not under warranty then it looks like you video card is pooched, but before you do anything, try booting with a single stick of ram, and see if the problem returns, if it does swap the ram with the other stick.

You can also run Dell Diagnostics Fn + F12 on bootup I believe???
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post #9 of 58
10/29/07 at 12:33pm
Oh yeah what are your GPU Temps like

and last you may also want to try a complete reformat.
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post #10 of 58
10/30/07 at 2:12pm
My 7900GS bit the dust Sunday morning. I leave it on at night sometimes, but I hadn't had the thing overclocked since I upgraded to Vista back in March. I did have the 7900gsx bios loaded with the higher voltage. No wonder they warned against the voltage mods for single pipe gpus.
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post #11 of 58
10/30/07 at 2:18pm
It's very easy for a notebook GPU to mess up. That's why you don't mess with it, when you don't have to.
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post #12 of 58
10/30/07 at 3:04pm
I think you can try FN+Power Button, which I think runs diagnostics. If those checkout fine, I'd reformat. If that doesnt solve it, i'd try calling up dell lol... just don't mention the part about overclock :P
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post #13 of 58
1/14/08 at 9:11pm
I have the same problem - artifact symbols at boot, in safe mode, and garbage in windows. The Dell tech was convinced - reading from the flow chart - my LCD was bad. However, I was able to demand (after 30 minutes) that they send a tech with a new video card (and LCD).
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post #14 of 58
3/17/08 at 10:17pm
Card death - early version of the 7900.
Dell will want $500 to fix it.
Fix it yourself, but it requires a significant tear down of the laptop...
I'm looking for one with broken video as-is - or can repair it.. cb1000rider@yahoo.com
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post #15 of 58
3/17/08 at 10:20pm
Heat is what Kills GPUS.

In my new D901c the cooling system is soo great that peak playing crysis is 56 degrees and i'm overclocked on my 8800gtx
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post #16 of 58
3/17/08 at 10:38pm
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Originally Posted by diefool View Post
...that peak playing crysis is 56 degrees and i'm overclocked on my 8800gtx

Wow. That is superb!
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post #17 of 58
3/17/08 at 11:22pm
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Originally Posted by SPEEDwithJJ View Post
Wow. That is superb!

i know. it's freakishly cool @ idle it's 35 degrees and my 4 cpu's are @ 29
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post #18 of 58
6/27/08 at 5:39pm
I'm wondering...
It seems that the design of the video card was plagued with problems:

1) A high number of posts here about the card going DOA.
2) A redesign of the card to a dual-pipe setup later in the life of the 9400/e1705. Single pipe owners were not notified.

Anyone want to organize a group complaint? cb1000rider@yahoo.com
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post #19 of 58
6/28/08 at 1:34am
my card died a couple days ago as well..
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post #20 of 58
6/29/08 at 7:48am
My 7800go runs really hot... and has from the first day I got it, now over 2 years ago. It's about 78C all the time even with fans. So I bought a 7900 from ebay 2 months ago. Idled around 50C, barely ever needed the fans... fantastic.

A few weeks on... screen corruption, random characters on boot. *sigh*

Back to 7800... idling nearly 30degrees higher, but still working.
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