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    M1530 Mobo or CPU

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by griffinheart, Jul 12, 2010.

  1. griffinheart

    griffinheart Newbie

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    Hi Guys:
    Im new to this forum, I am led to here by google and I feel this is a very energetic forum.
    Here I have a question regarding my Dell XPS M1530. The probelm is as follows:
    1.upon turned on there's absolutely nothing shows on screen, but I am sure LCD is fine since.
    2.using self diagnostic FN+Power, the leds show flash-solid-solid.
    3.Harddriver and fan are working fine.
    I contacted the customer service and they told me it's either due to the mobo or the cpu.
    Since my warranty has been expired, I can only use the one year extended warranty, which only repairs my laptop if it is due to the gpu failure. the link is here Extended warranty for XPS m1530 with faulty NVIDIA 8400 GPU - Desktop General Hardware Forum - Desktop - Dell Community
    Can anybody who has the same experience tell me whether it is a result of CPU failure or MOBO/GPU failure? Have you contacted with dell? Did you use the extended warranty? How did it turned out.
    I would be much appreciate if anybody could help me, thank you
     
    griffinheart, Jul 12, 2010
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  2. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    I'd say its a motherboard/GPU problem.
     
    Nick, Jul 12, 2010
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    griffinheart Newbie

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    Thanks joker, can anybody else who has similar experience give me some info? Since I really have to make sure what's happening so that I can deal with Dell. Since the extended warranty only works on failure gpu.
     
    griffinheart, Jul 13, 2010
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  4. KingRaptor

    KingRaptor Notebook Evangelist

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    Try connecting the laptop to an external monitor. If something shows up on the external screen, chances are your GPU is fine and your LCD or the connection to it is dead. If nothing shows up on the external screen either, it is probably a GPU failure. These G84 based GPUs are prone to failure.
     
    KingRaptor, Jul 13, 2010
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    griffinheart Newbie

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    Nope, nothing shows up, I am sure my lcd works just fine now. I chatted with the technician and he told me its either my cpu or mobo. I just want to make sure it's not my cpu's problem.
    oh and thanks for reply
     
    griffinheart, Jul 13, 2010
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    Most likely it's the mobo. CPUs are made by Intel and have much better quality (they don't just die randomly...) Dell motherboards, on the other hand, have lots of parts of questionable quality... If you're still under GPU warranty, make Dell send a technician out with a new board with a new GPU. It's their job to fix the computer with a bad GPU under the extended GPU warranty.
     
    KingRaptor, Jul 16, 2010
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