A slightly pointless thread but I'm looking to vent some steam.
A while back my XPS M170 hit the dirt or so I thought. At the time it looked like the graphics card had overheated and it was displaying some horrid blocks and lines on the screen. Some of you may even remember my thread here with the pictures of how bad it looked.
Well about 13 - 14 months later i though id get rid of it. So i browsed ebay to see how much similar faulty ones were going for and noticed one which had the exact same problem i did. He mentioned in the description that when he disabled the Nvidia drivers, the computer would work fine.
So this gave me an idea. I uninstalled the graphics drivers and installed the newest ones. To my surprise, problem solved ! I cant believe that I didn't try this before and i am absolutely kicking myself.
A while back my XPS M170 hit the dirt or so I thought. At the time it looked like the graphics card had overheated and it was displaying some horrid blocks and lines on the screen. Some of you may even remember my thread here with the pictures of how bad it looked.
Well about 13 - 14 months later i though id get rid of it. So i browsed ebay to see how much similar faulty ones were going for and noticed one which had the exact same problem i did. He mentioned in the description that when he disabled the Nvidia drivers, the computer would work fine.
So this gave me an idea. I uninstalled the graphics drivers and installed the newest ones. To my surprise, problem solved ! I cant believe that I didn't try this before and i am absolutely kicking myself.
