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    A revised motherboard version for M1530?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by lindstroem, Dec 13, 2008.

  1. lindstroem

    lindstroem Notebook Consultant

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    In reference to my post in Costumer Service issues Great support, new computer after 11 months , the Dell support offered me a motherboard replacement for the 3rd time and stated that there is a new revision of motherboards that apperantly should remove the risk of overheating problems.

    With a bit broken english, this is the support's words exactly:
    " Also would like to inform you that if motherboard will be determined as defected, will be replaced by new of revision one so it should might solve problem at this time."​

    But, when contacting the sales chat about the errand:
    - My question is wether you have made any changes in the components to avoid the problem or if the only action have been to prolong the warranties?

    - It's not something that we can change hardware one because nVidia itself doesn't know which graphics chips would be affected.​

    Have anyone else come in contact with this information? May just be bogus :)
     
  2. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    Boards manufactured after August 2008 have supposedly been fixed (as in nVidia stopped using faulty packaging)
    Only time will tell if this is true, but people with these revisions of motherboard have not seen the same issues as people with the known faulty GPUs yet.