M1330 Display Issue (Vertical Lines on Reboot & Crash & Vertical Lines)

shelleyevans · 07-03-2008, 12:38 PM

Actually there was a brief time when you could go onto the m1330 downloads page, select XP as your operating system and download all the drivers. I know-- that's how I did it!

Then Dell backed off and removed it.

Lordnikon, if you search the Dell forum, somebody has a post which notes the demise of the XP drivers, and links to all the appropriate drivers, most of which are available for other notebooks (Inspiron 1520, etc.).

I myself will stay away from updated GPU drivers; all they can do, as I understand it, is underclock or over fan.

sAt. · 07-03-2008, 04:08 PM

Anyone knows about 64bit drivers?

rocketscientist · 07-03-2008, 04:19 PM

I am proud (and somewhat sad) to see this thread is still alive 7-months after I started it. I would have hoped Dell would have caught this issue earlier instead of making some people get replacement after replacement.

traveller · 07-03-2008, 05:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rocketscientist

I am proud ...

Maybe you could add (even more) value to your initial post by highlighting the key facts (well, strong assumptions, anyways), including links to useful and related threads (like the Cu mod thread).

Also helpful would be to provide links to monitoring & testing tools so that 1330 owners who suspect they may have this issue can verify temps, etc.

Now that would be just grand...

phamti · 07-03-2008, 06:12 PM

Hi,

Just adding to the count of user's affected. Does Dell have a fix for this yet?

Back in October 2007 I paid around $2300 with everything souped up. Thin backlit led screen. 2gigs of RAM. 7200RPM HD. 2.0GHz. Windows Ultimate.

Laptop1 got vertical blanks
Dell sent a new laptop2 but the wrong fat screen (still it worked so moved data over to laptop2)
Dell sent a third laptop3 but the wrong cpu 2.2 and screen
Tech support brought new screen and put on laptop1
Laptop1 saw rainbows and screen went totally blank (no lights)
Tech support came back with new screen and put on Laptop3 and upped RAM to 4 gigs for inconvenience. Also approved the 2.2 ghz cpu since it was a mistake.
June 6 the rainbow screens came to Laptop3
laptop3 sent in to depot. Came back with motherboard replaced.
June 25 after 1 week us using the laptop rainbow screens came back
July 2 had big presentation, laptop did not turn on at all! But luckily I borrowed my friends m1330, laptop4
Today July 3 Laptop4 has started having rainbow screens and I discovered this thread.

I is very disappointing that the dell tech support did not appear to be aware of this issue. I was impressed with the friendly service and that they understood it was a hardware issue (when I was able to cause the problem running various Linux distro's off of a live cd).

They are sending me a new laptop but it sounds like I would be better off asking for a refund. If the only fix is to run the fan more... well that sucks because my battery life is out the window.

=== Update July 3, 6:29pm ===

Looks like somebody even came up with a fix for this but it voids your warranty.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=250129

lordnikon · 07-03-2008, 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sinstoic

When was it that Dell had provided XP drivers for M1330?

Last year but I guess they taken off all their XP drivers support.

chelet · 07-03-2008, 08:51 PM

If you know the names/numbers of the XP drivers you need, you might find them here
http://ftp.us.dell.com/
But that is a LOT to sift through if you don't know which specific drivers you're looking for.

jjahshik32 · 07-04-2008, 03:59 AM

So is the nvidia gpu being defective is pretty much the 8400m gs?

I just want to know because I'm afraid my mbp will be affected by this since its an nvidia 8600m gt.

Also I was thinking about picking up a dell m1330 as my 2nd machine.. but maybe I'll wait until this issue gets sorted or dell decides to update the gpu with ATI..

macreyes · 07-04-2008, 05:19 AM

Guys,

Do you think my motherboard will survive if my max cpu/gpu combo temps are

Cpu = 75C
Gpu = 75C

They are both at that temp when i ran orthos for about 10mins.

Im sure if either one is at 75C and the other at a lower temp (i.e. 55-65) is ok. Im not exactly sure though if both are running high temps

Thanks

ghost_boxer · 07-04-2008, 07:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macreyes

Guys,

Do you think my motherboard will survive if my max cpu/gpu combo temps are

Cpu = 75C
Gpu = 75C

They are both at that temp when i ran orthos for about 10mins.

Im sure if either one is at 75C and the other at a lower temp (i.e. 55-65) is ok. Im not exactly sure though if both are running high temps

Thanks

no that is not good.. imagine after 1 hour of use the temps will go to about 85-90c+