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post #21 of 58
7/27/08 at 5:40pm
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Originally Posted by scriccs11 View Post
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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I just had the exact same problem as you, except that my 7900gs isn't overclocked :/
I have just soft-overclocked it while doing some benchmarking but it was 2 weeks ago and since then I was using stock clocks and my temps were normal

I'm running Dell stock drivers 174.xx for M1710
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post #22 of 58
7/28/08 at 3:03am
FYI - My old 7800 is still running like a chap in a mates E1705 - mind you they have I8KFanGUI which I think is the key - if you can run the 7900go at 50 or below for normal operation and only run above this for 3D gaming then I think you should be OK.

I still have my Rev 0 7900 which ran at 550, 1600 @ 1.2V (GSX flash) for months but now have the 7950GTX which actually scores only just a bit higher than my old 7900go in 3D mark 05 when OC'ed to the max (615, 1600) and it works fine - still handles the OC without complaint. While the 7950GTX seems to struggle a bit with the heat on OCing and can't push it much beyond 620 and the memory hates going above 750 (1500).

Still I don't bother with much OCing now no point to many 8800GTX's out there with massive 13K plus scores in 3D06 - the 7 series just can't compeate with that!!!

now I know how all those 6800 ulta guys feel!!!
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post #23 of 58
7/16/09 at 5:06pm
Guys, I get a ton of email about these problems.
Basically, there isn't much you can do - when you experience artifacts, you've got hardware damage. You can TRY reloading the BIOS - no harm there...

The real fix is a dual-pipe card and cooler fan settings. If you have a laptop with the 7900 series nvidia card - on the Dell you need to get a utility to kick your CPU fan on earlier. This also cools the GPU.

Dell will NOT address the issue out of warranty nor will any of the manufacturers (that I know about) - It's a problem with NVIDIA and I'm really surprised there isn't a class action lawsuit that I can find for laptop owners.

Please post your email address here if you're having issues with the card.

There IS a class action lawsuit for Nvidia investors that got stung when Nvidia did not disclose failure rates.. See:
http://www.lawssb.com/news_story.php?news=20080909
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post #24 of 58
7/20/09 at 1:41pm
You could try this too, I had some luck with it.

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread228369.html
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post #25 of 58
7/31/09 at 8:36pm
I had the same problem, and mine wasn't overclocked. 18 months RIP.
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post #26 of 58
8/1/09 at 9:04pm
I had the same problem with mine a while ago but like Altoid said, baking it worked (so far).
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post #27 of 58
8/4/09 at 12:52pm
I can attest with totaly disbelief that the baking worked on a 7900GS
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post #28 of 58
8/20/09 at 8:03pm
I've been through 3 7900 GS cards, 4 sets of ram, and 3 motherboards on my E1705. It took a dump again 5 minutes after the technician walked out the door. I escalated to a supervisor and they ended up giving me a 1737 which is in production status right now. I'm hoping it turns out to be a great laptop. They upped the processor speed from 2.10 Ghz to 2.4 Ghz and to the ATI 512MB video card. Still only 2GB of ram but I'll change that to atleast 4GB. They originally told me I would get VIsta 64bit but some digging I found the order number and its show Vista 32bit. Either way I dont really care as Windows 7 is going on it as soon as I get it and my original point being as the 7900 GS cards appear to really be a problem...
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post #29 of 58
8/20/09 at 8:20pm
Dell has also extended warranties some some present laptops which have the NVIDEA GPUs which all seem to have a problem with Heat.

They also relased updated BIOS files to increase the fan speeds.

Too little to late for E1705/9400 laptops owners...whcih is sad, the E1704 laptop was a great unit GPU faults not with standing.
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post #30 of 58
8/20/09 at 8:55pm
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
Dell has also extended warranties some some present laptops which have the NVIDEA GPUs which all seem to have a problem with Heat. They also relased updated BIOS files to increase the fan speeds. Too little to late for E1705/9400 laptops owners...whcih is sad, the E1704 laptop was a great unit GPU faults not with standing.
Isn't that the truth. I really liked the fit and feel of my E1705. It was a great laptop for the first 2 years after that it has been a complete disappointment. It has been broken almost an entire year outside of a few weeks here and there between replacement parts. Thank god for extended warranties!
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post #31 of 58
8/24/09 at 2:19pm
Just bake the GPU in the oven like I did. My go 7800GTX is working again.
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post #32 of 58
8/26/09 at 6:34pm
have a quite new full working go7900gs for sale. (send me a PM if you interested, very easy to replace it, done it with several different DELL laptops, (both GPU, CPU and Motherboard)
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post #33 of 58
9/1/09 at 2:25pm
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Originally Posted by Yoob@NBF View Post
I can attest with totaly disbelief that the baking worked on a 7900GS

Baking worked for me as well.
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post #34 of 58
9/16/09 at 1:30pm
Well, well, it seems my 7950GTX partially died yesterday, after 20 months of use.
Here are my symptoms :
I get green vertical lines in BIOS and during Windows logo. Windows won't boot with Nvidia drivers. Boots fine in Safe Mode or without drivers up to 1024x768 though. No screen corruption at this resolution.
Looks like the same problem as everybody here huh ?

They are currently overpriced on Ebay.
I am seriously considering sending it to the one Ebay merchant who fixes them for 159$. I read the comments and they seem reliable.
I don't feel like baking it and ruining it for good. I don't trust my luck these days.
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post #35 of 58
9/16/09 at 4:23pm
Well if he sucessfully fixes them for $ 159.00 than it worth it considering the price of them now days.

I would suggest to anyone with a single pipe card to consider upgrading to a Dual Pipe card, I am pretty sure the Dual pipe assembly can directly replace a single pipe version no problems
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post #36 of 58
9/16/09 at 6:16pm
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
Well if he sucessfully fixes them for $ 159.00 than it worth it considering the price of them now days.

I would suggest to anyone with a single pipe card to consider upgrading to a Dual Pipe card, I am pretty sure the Dual pipe assembly can directly replace a single pipe version no problems

Its definitely a direct fit. Got my 7950GTX on a single pipe right now.
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post #37 of 58
9/23/09 at 4:40pm
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Originally Posted by savat View Post
I am seriously considering sending it to the one Ebay merchant who fixes them for 159$. I read the comments and they seem reliable.
I got my card back yesterday. The whole process took only one week, shipping back and forth included!. They were lightning fast at repairing it : the operation went successfully and my card was shipped back the same day. It is fully fonctional now. I am in no way affiliated with these guys. I think it's important to share with you that our faulty gpus can be fixed for 200$ or so (shhipping included). They are still selling at 475$ and more on Ebay.
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post #38 of 58
10/18/09 at 12:34pm
Hell, my card failed again yesterday. It didn't last a month. I hope I will get good service with the 30 days warranty...
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post #39 of 58
10/18/09 at 3:47pm
Good lucks. Let us know.

cheers ...
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post #40 of 58
10/19/09 at 2:55am
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Originally Posted by savat View Post
Hell, my card failed again yesterday. It didn't last a month. I hope I will get good service with the 30 days warranty...

didn't want to say it earlier but yeah, i thought it would happen. no long term fix for bad solder unfortunately
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