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    1440 x 900 oh dear what a shame

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by samosa, Apr 21, 2008.

  1. samosa

    samosa Notebook Geek

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    check this out, since morning going from bad to worse.


    this is my inspiron 6400 and i had plans to sell this in the next couple of days... engineer coming out on friday as i'm at work till then......

    booohooooo


    [​IMG]
     
    samosa, Apr 21, 2008
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  2. stevey5036

    stevey5036 Notebook Evangelist

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    What are we looking at?
     
    stevey5036, Apr 21, 2008
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  3. SteveJonesy

    SteveJonesy Notebook Evangelist

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    If you take the address from the properties you'll see the pic.

    Looks like your videocard has gone bad - check it on an external monitor. If it's the same the vid cards gone, if it's fine the LCD has gone. Lookslike vid card though.

    Luckily it looks like you'll be getting it fixed ;)
     
    SteveJonesy, Apr 21, 2008
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  4. ryanmcv

    ryanmcv Notebook Enthusiast

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    Definitely looks like a video card problem... I recall having the same jaggy lines and dots all over one of my older Compaq laptops and the video card was the culprit.
     
    ryanmcv, Apr 21, 2008
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  5. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    Is there a picture or something? I don't see anything.
     
    nizzy1115, Apr 21, 2008
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  6. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    Hi.

    no picture for me either or a link to one?

    Regards

    John.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Apr 21, 2008
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  7. samosa

    samosa Notebook Geek

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    i've had a look at the support call and the tech has despatched a new hard drive and motherboard.

    I've got an ATI x1300, i've got this terrible feeling when the engineer comes and replaces the part it'll still be there

    the lcd has stopped working now but when connecting to external monitor still get same problems.

    [​IMG]
     
    samosa, Apr 21, 2008
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  8. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    Yeah, it is most likely a graphics card. But you could resize that pic to something smaller ;)
     
    nizzy1115, Apr 21, 2008
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    If the ATI X1300 is one of those cards that's built into or soldered to the motherboard, the motherboard swap should fix it.
     
    chelet, Apr 21, 2008
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  10. samosa

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    nah it's an additional expansion as it was replaced recently
     
    samosa, Apr 21, 2008
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