Graphics Card = No Bueno

[Sheneman 1st MRB]

SO i guess my wonderful NVIDIA Quadro 3600M graphics card is dying a slow and painful death. I see a LOT of static and random color lines ALL THE TIME. I think my comp will be out of game action till about Friday. Apparently it is a memory issue. Anyone seen this before?

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

Colored lines like this?:

Or this?:

Or this?

Or dead pixels that leave tracks?

It's usually a heating problem, when was the last time you took your computer apart and blew it out with some canned air?

However, once you start seeing the lines, and dead pixels, it might be too late.

[Sheneman 1st MRB]

yeah you got it. Little more crazy than that. I haven't opened a game because I cant really. It crashes. I think I will have to post an LOA. I talked to Dell chat (further about this problem). Turns out I have a memory problem with the card and have to get a new one. Scheduled to get it Friday. Luckily, free of charge . yay for intense warranties

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

Haha, yep. This was all my old laptop. Dell replaced my video card, my RAM, my motherboard and my lcd screen. Finally they just gave up and did a complete system replacement. They gave me the laptop that would be the equivalent to the one we bought originally at the time. The just so happened to be a top of the line XPS laptop.

So agreed, hooray for extreme warranties!

This is what I had:

And this is what they sent me:

[Greco]

lucky you getting a new laptop lol.

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

Heh, yeah it surprised the fuck out of me.

[McKenzie 1st MRB]

I <3 my XPS M1530, with its missing escape key lol.

[Jasko]

i thought the quaddro's were editor and builder's cards...

[Sheneman 1st MRB]

yeah they are meant for that. But they definitely will build a NICE image for games too.