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    What's wrong with my M1330?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by alexzeon, Jun 11, 2008.

  1. alexzeon

    alexzeon Notebook Evangelist

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    Starting last Friday, my M1330 would have disruption images (a piece of green, purple)on the monitor then shut down itself after a period of time. I thought it was an overheat issue so I called Dell for a motherboard+HSF, thermal pad exchange. The tech is coming tomorrow.

    However, I just got this message:
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    So what is the Windows talking about? RAM or video memory?
     
    alexzeon, Jun 11, 2008
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  2. Wishmaker

    Wishmaker BBQ Expert

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    Voila. Straight from the source


    Ignore the little footnote at the end. It also applies to Vista and XP. I've seen this before and it was a defective motherboard. I used this site to identify the problem. It is true it was on a pc and not a laptop. How I identified it? I started to swap my components with my 2nd pc. I swapped everything except the mobo.
     
    Wishmaker, Jun 11, 2008
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  3. noboru

    noboru Notebook Guru

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    These memory parity errors are very annoying because of the fact that windows only tells you that something is wrong with 'memory' but not with which one exactly. As you have mentioned it could be either the video memory or the RAM on your machine that is defective (or the RAM that is not seated properly in its slots/soiled RAM connectors)...
    I had this problem with my previous inspiron6400 and the only solution that made the problem dissolve was a motherboard/gpu and RAM exchange :(
     
    noboru, Jun 11, 2008
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