Help me!! Blue boxes of death! (Inspiron 5100)

Question

Ok, now that I've gotten all of my upgraded stuff, like my video card (ATI Radeon M9), my new RAM (1024MB), and a pretty good cooling system (My super cool fan :)), I thought that I'd be able to play fine. But now, when I play for about 10 minutes, my screen becomes covered in thousands of tiny blue flashing boxes. And the graphics start warping. For example, when playing Unreal Tournament 2004, I was winning, but then the boxes appear. Furthermore, all of the 3D rendered characters developed large 'tumors' of graphics just sticking out. It looks like all of the people are covered in spider webs! Can anyone please help me with this!?!? The only wierd part is that it will only start while playing Unreal Tournament 2004, yet, it stays even after I close the game, untill I shut down. Again, Can anyone please help me with this!?!?

H3lpMePlease · Answer

Oh great, now its just happening when I start Windows.

H3lpMePlease · Answer

Oh HELP ME!! Now its happening everytime I start an application that uses full screen!!

RRules · Answer

Its possible the M9 card is defective. Im not an expert on putting the M9 in the 5100 but i have heard of a lot of defective M9 cards. Call dell and see if they will send you a replacement.

H3lpMePlease · Answer

Well, thanx, I'll do that, but I have another problem. The card I bought was 64 MB, and when I put it in, it always used to say 64 MB, but now my computer is telling me that its only 32 MB. Can anyone explain this?

RRules · Answer

Yep thats a common sign of a defective card. Its definetly bad, call dell and get a replacement.

Laptops General - Locked Topics

Help me!! Blue boxes of death! (Inspiron 5100)