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Im crossposting this from the hardware forums on SA, regarding my girlfriend's (nymph's) computer.
My girlfriend has a Dell Inspiron 8100 with a Radeon 7500 Mobility chipset in it. Lately, at what appears to be random intervals, it has been crashing with a "ati2dvag.dll has encountered a serious error blah blah..", and the resolution on her laptop goes all the way down and she has to restart.
I thought maybe it was a corrupted driver problem, so after running driver cleaner, and reinstalling dell's drivers off the original CD and the updated ones off the website, it's still happening.
She is running SP2 on XP. It's an older laptop, and it also has a problem with what appears to be a short from the base unit to the screen, in which there is artifacting if you start to wiggle or move the LCD from the base. Any ideas? She's out of warranty
Im out of idea's here, the only thing that I can think of is doing a repair install of winXP. Halp meh.
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Posted 29 October 2004 - 10:18 AM
dud, sounds like you're SOL when it comes to the artifacting when wiggling the screen. go inside(hahah right?) and make sure the lcd is in good connecting terms with the mobo. (as i said, poo, SOL)
reformats cure all. go to best buy and get it checked out. hahahahahah!!!one
reformats cure all. go to best buy and get it checked out. hahahahahah!!!one
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Posted 29 October 2004 - 10:27 AM
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dud, sounds like you're SOL when it comes to the artifacting when wiggling the screen. go inside(hahah right?) and make sure the lcd is in good connecting terms with the mobo. (as i said, poo, SOL)
reformats cure all. go to best buy and get it checked out. hahahahahah!!!one
reformats cure all. go to best buy and get it checked out. hahahahahah!!!one
That really is an unrelated problem, this problem seems to be software based, whereas the other seems to just be a short in the connection. And no to Best Buy.
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Posted 29 October 2004 - 10:30 AM
sounds like some connectors are fuxored...if u can get inside and possible repair ...best of luck to ya...otherwise you may be SOL...
try a reformat tho...it may work
try a reformat tho...it may work
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Posted 29 October 2004 - 12:31 PM
My g/f has the inspiron 5100 with the 7500 mobility chipset, and has no problems with xpSP2, which could have been a driver error with the new pack, but i've had no problems with hers, did u try installing new drivers for it? the updates? Otherwise yea prolly is a loose connection
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