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Re: WOT and long: Anyone have a Dell XPS m1330?
Posted by nypb [Email] (more from nypb) on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:39:42
In Reply to: WOT and long: Anyone have a Dell XPS m1330?, B Millar
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I'm a Dell certified tech working at a university and back in 2007-2008 Nvidia/Dell shipped thousands of laptops with faulty video GPUs. I replace 2-3 system boards a week on the Latitude D620-D630 models.
What happens is the processor fan gets clogged with dust/debris and causes the weakest link (GPU) to fail. Fortunately, we spec all of our systems with a 3-year warranty so we're covered.
My boss actually e-mailed Michael Dell about reversing the polarity on the processor fan to blow the dust out on startup. Within hours, a bunch of engineers got in touch and they worked through some stuff but ultimately decided that it wasn't worth the effort. Good luck.
http://apcmag.com/nvidia_disaster_thousands_of_gpus_faulty.htm
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Posts in this Thread:
- WOT and long: Anyone have a Dell XPS m1330?, B Millar
, Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:43:02- Re: WOT and long: Anyone have a Dell XPS m1330?, nypb, Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:39:42 <-- Viewing This Message
- Just sent one out for a motherboard yesterday..., bazil burns, Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:59:04
- I have a 1530 and it's WICKED hot, NateinAA, Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:48:01
- Re: WOT and long: Anyone have a Dell XPS m1330?, Dean, Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:20:11
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