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    Dell Studio 1537, Radeon 3400 problem...

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by bigoo7e, Aug 12, 2009.

  1. bigoo7e

    bigoo7e Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello guys and gals, I wanted to ask if anyone has seen this problem or has came across it personally. I have a year and a half old Samsung 931bw 19" lcd I have hooked upto my laptop via the vga port so I can have two websites up at once or while I am playing games have my igoogle homepage on the bigger screen and I can enjoy the sweet WLED display that came with my laptop. Well this has seemed to become a problem as of late where my video on both screens will start to flicker and then I will get a windows error in the right hand corner of the screen saying the ati driver has stopped working. If I leave the display plugged in to the laptop my computer will blue screen and do a memory dump due to some ATI driver failure. I was smart enough about 10-15 minutes ago to unplug the display it while it was flickering and it did not blue screen me. My main concern if this is normal and if there is a driver or something that can me done to fix this so I can run the second display. It seems to to me quite useless if dell puts a vga port on their laptops and it does this to every customer... not cool.

    Thanks for for everyone's time in advance.

    Peace,
    Evan
     
    bigoo7e, Aug 12, 2009
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  2. Sharpnd

    Sharpnd Notebook Guru

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    Have you tried updating your ATI video card to the latest drivers? If not, you can find them by Clicking here
     
    Sharpnd, Aug 12, 2009
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  3. Fragilexx

    Fragilexx Get'cha head in the game

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    Agreed, that would be the first thing I'd look to do. Could be an issue that has had a new driver come out and fix it already. Or if you recently upgraded driver then I'd perhaps think about returning the one you used previously.
     
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  4. raduque

    raduque Notebook Evangelist

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    raduque, Aug 12, 2009
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