Last month Dell XPS M1330 has failed me. This time, no amount of technical knowledge can solve the problem–I’ve been hit by the defective NVIDIA GPU issue. my laptop screen started to freeze up and automatically reboot. This happened seven times in five hours . Now my laptop refuses to boot at all–or, more accurately, boots with these beautiful vertical lines (see below). And no, plugging in an external monitor does NOT fix the issue. This is a video card problem, not a monitor problem. I should note that I am extremely reliant on my laptop–it is my primary computer (I’m almost like a Mac person in that way… perhaps I should take the hint and switch to a Mac?). Thus, I have incurred considerable cost in work time trying to remedy this issue stuck without a computer.
An early indication of failure?
The current state of my machine. Unusable.
Some Background on the Issue
In early July, NVIDIA informed stockholders of the problem:
…the company just informed investors that “significant quantities” of previous-generation graphics chips have been failing at “higher than normal rates,” and that it’s lowering its Q2 estimates due to pricing pressure. NVIDIA will be taking a $150M to $250M charge against earnings next quarter to cover the cost of repairing and replacing the affected chips, but didn’t Read the rest of this entry »
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