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    1420 Problem Poll

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by onlycurious, Dec 11, 2007.

  1. onlycurious

    onlycurious Notebook Consultant

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    What problems do you have with your 1420??

    If you chose "other problem(s)", please specify what the problem was in your post. Thanks.
     
    onlycurious, Dec 11, 2007
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  2. psyllium

    psyllium Notebook Enthusiast

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    Mine has that whiney noise coming out of the headphone ports. If I use the Mic input as a Line-out, set as rear speakers, the whine is a lot less audible.

    This results in no proper headphone level amplification though (read: close to no bass), so OK for anything but music. (Haven't contacted Dell about this yet).

    While I don't think it is a problem with my particular notebook, the CPU fan is pretty much always on, even if the core temp is below 40 degrees. I fail to see why it's necessary to start the fan at such a low temp. (Contacted Dell, waiting for reply.)

    I had a problem with the VGA video output giving some weird repeated inverse output when going to LCD monitors. Like if you had a black bar of one pixel wide (e.g. a | character) there'd be another repeated brighter bar a few pixels over to the right. I fixed this by using a custom timing in the Nvidia control panel to use reduced blanking (which apparently increases the bandwidth available for the signal or something?). (Contacted Dell, they wanted to replace the motherboard. I told them not to bother as I'd 'fixed' it myself by that stage.)

    But overall, relatively happy :).
     
    psyllium, Dec 11, 2007
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    micah356 Notebook Enthusiast

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    My fan only comes on when the laptop's hot. It can go for long periods without coming on at all.
     
    micah356, Dec 11, 2007
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  4. onlycurious

    onlycurious Notebook Consultant

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    Need more voters... :p
     
    onlycurious, Dec 11, 2007
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  5. psyllium

    psyllium Notebook Enthusiast

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    Does yours have the nvidia graphics or the on board one?
     
    psyllium, Dec 17, 2007
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