The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.

Log in or Sign up

Vostro 1500 has weird graphical errors

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by SleepDeprived, Apr 20, 2009.

Thread Status:: Not open for further replies.

Page 2 of 2

John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

Reputations:

7,197

Messages:

28,839

Likes Received:

2,157

Trophy Points:

581

I would put the pressure on Dell to make a warranty replacement since the 8400M GS is among the GPUs prone to failure. Different cooling configurations will just affect the time until failure but the product itself is inherently flawed from birth. "Latent defect" is the technical term.

There's a lot of people out there with these potentially defective GPUs that are waiting to die. Fortunately, I'm not one of them. However, my E6400 suffers from an over-active fan because an nVidia GPU is one of the options.

John

John Ratsey, May 5, 2009

#11