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Dell I-1520 - Seems to boot, but screen only glows

post #1 of 10
9/21/10 at 1:04am
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It's my oldest Son's laptop in my Siggy. He was practicing a racing simulator when the both the screen and the game froze. The screen changed and had a red tint (like a clear red lens over a camera), with a small square-like pattern. The game, which had the sound output of a porsche, was now repeating the same high-rev note. The screen blinked and he could not recover the game, so he attempted a reboot. The laptop was shut down, and when restart, the screen lit up, but nothing ever appeared.


I've reset memory Dimms, its been blown out, when turned on the screen glows but no words or anything shows up on it. I see no error messages (no beeps of blinking lights) so I think its booting up to the log in screen, but since we can't see anything its not doing us any good! LOL!

Does the nVidia 8600GT have a history of failing? Only thing I can think of at this point.

Any ideas?
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post #2 of 10
9/21/10 at 5:58am
Plug in an external monitor and see. If no change then the GPU is probably toasted.

cheers ...
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post #3 of 10
9/21/10 at 9:48am
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already tried the external monitor...sorry forgot to mention that.

Never fried a GPU before, weird! Ebay time I'm thinking......
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post #4 of 10
9/21/10 at 10:38am
It's a long shot, but try replacing the CMOS. I've seen this issue happen to me in the past and when I replaced the CMOS it booted/posted.
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post #5 of 10
9/21/10 at 1:19pm
And if that doesn't work, give baking a try

cheers ...
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post #6 of 10
9/21/10 at 8:39pm
I may have a 8600GT GPU at home

if I did not toss it for lack of room
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post #7 of 10
9/21/10 at 9:51pm
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Originally Posted by Steve View Post
It's a long shot, but try replacing the CMOS. I've seen this issue happen to me in the past and when I replaced the CMOS it booted/posted.
CMOS? Where / What? (Did you mean the Battery perhaps?)

Note, its seems to be booting, like I said I can hear the HD humming, no error beeps or lights besides the normal ones.
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post #8 of 10
9/21/10 at 10:38pm
so what hapened with the external monitor ?
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post #9 of 10
9/21/10 at 10:48pm
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Originally Posted by JETninja View Post
CMOS? Where / What? (Did you mean the Battery perhaps?)

Note, its seems to be booting, like I said I can hear the HD humming, no error beeps or lights besides the normal ones.
Yes CMOS battery. Replace it.
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post #10 of 10
9/22/10 at 12:03am
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
so what hapened with the external monitor ?
I mentioned above, nothing showed on it....
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