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    Dell Inspiron 1501 - white lines?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Kivak, May 5, 2007.

  1. Kivak

    Kivak Newbie

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    Hey all,

    I recently got a dell Inspiron 1501 with duel core AMD 1.8Ghz Turion 64 processors, an ATI Radeon xPress 1150 256mgb integrated video card and 1gig of RAM.

    It came with Vista, but I absolutely hate vista. So I uninstalled and put on windows XP professional 64bit. I also went to get the drivers for the video card. Supposedly I have the right ones and everything is working fine. However! I see very small white lines all across my screen when I play a game, more like the video card is bad or drivers are bad. But my video card shouldn't be like that, and I do have the right drivers. Even my mobility radeon x300 64mgb card is my old laptop looks better than this one does. Granted, this one runs faster, but I play eve-online and whenever I look at a sun everything gets all distorted and everything is filled with lines. In addition some things don't even render.

    Now my computer came with vista, but it crashed like 4 times in 10minutes and I got so fed up with it that I uninstalled as quick as I could. So could it be that it only runs in vista well? Is it my card? My screen? or what?

    -Kivak
     
    Kivak, May 5, 2007
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  2. dd1989

    dd1989 Notebook Guru

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    It crashed 4 times in 10 minutes, what the hell were you doing with it lol.

    I've had vista a good few months now and it's been perfectly fine.
     
    dd1989, May 6, 2007
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  3. Dell C.A.

    Dell C.A. Company Representative

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    What were the errors when the system crashed in Vista? Have you run the Dell diagnostics to see if there are any hardware problems?

    When you installed XP 64, did you installed the Dell Notebook System software first? That driver is basically part of the chipset software, and is required for the computer to work correctly. If you did not install it, that might account for the problems you are seeing with the video.

    You can get the drivers from the Dell support website ( http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen).


    Larry
    Dell Customer Advocate
     
    Dell C.A., May 11, 2007
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  4. PhoenixFx

    PhoenixFx Notebook Virtuoso

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    If gaming is a major concern, then I'd suggest sticking with 32bit edition.
     
    PhoenixFx, May 11, 2007
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