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On Saturday 09 August 2008 21:03:37 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > see the links above. In short, you are screwed. There is no real remedy |
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> > > until Nvidia fixes their broken drivers. Some stuff might help a bit - |
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> > > but most of the time one thing gets slightly better and another one a |
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> > > lot worse. The only good news: there is nothing wrong with your system. |
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> > Well that's good to know at least. The bummer is that I speced this |
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> > laptop based on what I knew about nvidia's stuff. Nothing wrong in that, |
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> > I was just 18 months out of date! |
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> so you don't know about the 'nvidia mobile gpus dying like flies' problem? |
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You nasty horrible terrible man you. Did you have to remind me of that? :-) |
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Notebook was delivered 10 days ago on a Friday. That night I read the post |
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about it on slashdot. I'm so pissed about this card that I'm tending to ignore |
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it and hope the problems will go away (which they won't...) |
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/31/hp-pays-half-nvidia- |
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> problems |
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> just read the links in the text and below. Maybe you can still get a |
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> different one...? |
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It's a mobo :-( That means a motherboard replacement and I don't know what |
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Dell SA's position is on this. I'll have to check with the company account |
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manager, but I think my only recourse is going to be a "Keep the customer |
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happy!" internal POV. That and the fact that we buy truckloads of their |
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servers, and a standard 40% discount across the board on all Dell products. |
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Wish me luck |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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