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    m1330 Nvidia chip going out

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by gage006, Aug 20, 2010.

  1. gage006

    gage006 Notebook Geek

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    The graphics card is starting to die on my m1330. I'm seeing artifacting constantly, even when the laptop is cool and sitting on the desktop not playing games. This is the 2nd motherboard I've got from it and my warranty is no longer valid. Anything I can do to squeeze a couple more months of life out of this thing before I can afford to buying a new laptop? Or do I get any sort of warranty coverage for the motherboard they've recently replaced?
     
    gage006, Aug 20, 2010
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    If you're less than a year out of warranty, you should still be eligible for the extended warranty on the Nvidia chips. If you're more than a year out of warranty, but your board was replaced less than three months ago, I think you should still have a part warranty on the board.

    In either case, try to see if you can convince Dell to replace the board with an Intel board.

    Otherwise, you'll probably have to buy a new board...
     
    Commander Wolf, Aug 21, 2010
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  3. Fusel Wusel

    Fusel Wusel Notebook Consultant

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    If Dell won't give you anything and your GPU finally dies, try the oven-trick (Do a little google search), before buying a new board. Worked for my old Quadro FX2500m of my Precision m90. Except that I had no atrifacts but the card was totaly dead and afterwards fully functional again ;)
     
    Fusel Wusel, Aug 22, 2010
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