2009/9/29 Adam Sweet <a...@adamsweet.org>: > Have you tried attaching it to an external monitor? If the problem > persists you know it's the GPU or shared memory and not the LCD panel. >
Yup, it's an nVidia 6800Go which has issues on internal and external displays. > If that's your case Alan, it might be worth buying a new warranty rather > than a new card. Are your symptops the same as mine or more like AdamC's? > I had a 3 year NBD warranty on it, and the card went phut a short while after the warranty ran out. Indeed it went phut once in the past when the laptop was only a year old and I had it replaced under warranty. However when I tried to argue this was a recurrance the service department wouldn't have it and said I'd have to pay 200 odd quid to have it replaced. They even had the temerity to _argue_ with me when the following happened at the end of the call:- monkey on phone: "Are you happy with the service?" me: "Not even slightly" monkey: "Why?" me: "I have called you and the result is I still have a broken laptop" monkey: "But I told you how to get it fixed" me: "Yeah, and it should be fixed under warranty IMO" monkey: "Can't do that" me: "Ok, I'm still not happy" etc I even got diverted to his line manager whom I again had to explain to that I wasn't "happy". This was not a cheap laptop and it's still perfectly usable from a hardware spec point of view. The 1920x1200 17" screen is fantastic. But utterly useless without a video card. Makes me angry just thinking about it. I'll consider doing the nvidia reflow thing that Chris mentions though. Cheers, Al. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
