Ive owned this dell precision for over 4.5 years and its been used almost every minute of that 4.5 years, I have used it every day for work and then every night and weekend gaming or anything else you can think of, this poor beast needs to be put down 😀
last friday I was playing wow and the screen went totally black (there were massive particle effects on screen when it happened), I could still hear my audio and playing with the keyboard and mouse I could hear all of the alerts and notifications which tells me that my system just didnt lockup, the screen just went black.
I booted it up and was greeted with a lovely BSOD, I no longer have the codes with me but they indicated both a memory problem and a video card problem.
I can boot the laptop just fine in safe mode but as soon as I try to load windows with full drivers, it BSOD on me.
while its booting up, there are artifacts on the screen in a distinct pattern, almost a partial checkerboard and when it attempts to load windows, I get vertical artifacts in multiple colors.
ive formatted and reloaded windows just for giggles and no dice there.
the laptop is fast enough and does what I need right now to almost make it worth me fixing, I can get a refurb quadro 2500 for around 250.00-300.00 and since it still has plenty of power to do just about anything I need, id like to squeek out another few months before I just replace it, but I would like to pass it down to my kids to use.
before I spend the 250.00 for a new card, I wanted to get everyones opinions on whether or not its the root cause of the trouble, I would really hate to buy the card, have it not be the problem and then not be able to send it back.
any thoughts?
last friday I was playing wow and the screen went totally black (there were massive particle effects on screen when it happened), I could still hear my audio and playing with the keyboard and mouse I could hear all of the alerts and notifications which tells me that my system just didnt lockup, the screen just went black.
I booted it up and was greeted with a lovely BSOD, I no longer have the codes with me but they indicated both a memory problem and a video card problem.
I can boot the laptop just fine in safe mode but as soon as I try to load windows with full drivers, it BSOD on me.
while its booting up, there are artifacts on the screen in a distinct pattern, almost a partial checkerboard and when it attempts to load windows, I get vertical artifacts in multiple colors.
ive formatted and reloaded windows just for giggles and no dice there.
the laptop is fast enough and does what I need right now to almost make it worth me fixing, I can get a refurb quadro 2500 for around 250.00-300.00 and since it still has plenty of power to do just about anything I need, id like to squeek out another few months before I just replace it, but I would like to pass it down to my kids to use.
before I spend the 250.00 for a new card, I wanted to get everyones opinions on whether or not its the root cause of the trouble, I would really hate to buy the card, have it not be the problem and then not be able to send it back.
any thoughts?