My XPS broke down after a presumable video card failure a few days ago. Now the graph problem occurs each time I want to startup the machine and I can only startup and work in a very-low-resolution and by not using the nVidia video drivers.

 

Please have a look at the photos made with the mobile to understand what i am referring to:
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/414/bootscreenlg1.jpg
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/3797/textmodezo3.jpg

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/6201/windowsxpdesktopqf7.jpg
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/6517/diagnostic1cz1.jpg
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/2566/diagnostic2lf3.jpg

 

I have already contacted Dell XPS Support to ask for a video card replacement so let's hope this issue gets fixed quickly.

 

I was wondering if other customers have also experienced this issue and had to have their video card replaced.

 

Kind regards,
R.
Dell Notebook XPS M170 MXG051 - Bought Jan2006.
Intel Pentium M processor 2.26Ghz. 791Mhz, 1GB RAM.
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra.
Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Media Center Edition.