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.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    XPS M1530 Issues

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by eXempt, Jan 5, 2012.

  1. eXempt

    eXempt Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi. 1st post. Long time lurker, though. Used advice from here to help build my friend a pretty sager np8150.

    Anyways, I've had a dell xps m1530 since January of 8th grade (I'm a junior in high school right now.) It's been working fine until just recently - after not touching the laptop for ~3 weeks, I boot it up and have this: http://forum.notebookreview.com/dell-xps-studio-xps/497335-m1530-green-screen.html issue.
    All the black pixels on the screen are now green, and the blues/other pixels are sometimes purple. Also a couple vertical lines of pixels that don't move or change color at all. VGA output is fine, haven't tested HDMI yet. I took apart the computer, reseated the cables, no change.

    I know that the 8600 series mobile cards had overheating problems - I was wondering, could it be this? Or possibly the motherboard?

    I checked the xps m1530 owner's lounge, but it's pretty inactive, so I'm posting here.

    System specs:
    Core 2 Duo T9300 2.5 ghz, 3072 mb ddr2 667 mhz ram, 8600m GT, seagate momentus 7200.3 HDD 250gb, 1680x1050 display
     
    eXempt, Jan 5, 2012
    #1
  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

    Reputations:
    5,413
    Messages:
    10,711
    Likes Received:
    1,204
    Trophy Points:
    581
    If VGA output is fine, then your LCD/LCD cable is going bad.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jan 6, 2012
    #2