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Rari

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March 15th, 2006 17:00

2 part Q about E1705 display...

I ordered an E1705 w/ the nVidia 7800 card and am loving it. But I've noticed two things that are starting to make me anxious. One, when I close the lid it goes into hibernation yet when I open it, it may or may not require me to close and reopen it for screen to come up. This may be due to the OS or something since I did swap out the HDD (5400rpm? no thanks... plus I have a spare now), but I'm not sure. Either way, I know the screen should becoming up every time I open it and it currently is not behaving that way.

The second thing I noticed is probably the bigger issue of the two. After swapping the HDD and installing everything fresh (OS, dirvers, etc.) I've seen the screen flash black for a split second. It's like a refresh rate problem. But I can't adjust the refresh rate in the video properties. The black screen flash seems to occur more often, though not very frequent (about once every hour to hour and a half), while playing video games like SW: Battle Front or FFXI. What should I check before calling Dell's tech support for both of my questions? ...will I need to send it back? ;_; Thank you for your time.

Current specs:
E1705
1.8Ghz/667fsb
nVidia 7800 w/ 256mb
80gig SATA @ 7200rpm
512mb DDR2 PC4200 (2gig DDR2 PC5300 on the way)

leomuqiu

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March 16th, 2006 08:00

Oh yes!  I have the very same problem like yours!!!
 
Even our laptop specifications are similar, the only difference is I have got a 2gb memory.
 
Also, I formatted the disk and reinstalled the system and updated the most recent drivers provided by DELL. Then when I play computer games, like World of Warcraft, the screen flashes sometimes, although not very frequently, it is annoying!!!
 
Then, I tried to update my video card driver to the most up to date one provided by nvidia itself. However I found the official driver does not recognize my hardware!
 
Luckily, some told me that I can go to laptopvideo2go.com, and I went there, and successfully installed the newest driver: 84.20. After that, I went back to the game, and played for a whole afternoon, it seem like the problem was resovled.
 
Will you also have a try and tell me your condition. OK?
 
haha.
 

Rari

7 Posts

March 16th, 2006 12:00

hehe got the memory last night. Its nice but doesn't seem to be a big difference in the benchmark tests...

...any way, I updated to the same driver as you and it freaked me out at first by flashing several times after logging in. No flashes yet. I'll post a follow up later. Thank you. :)

leomuqiu

2 Posts

March 16th, 2006 14:00

Ok, you are welcome:)  and let me know the progress:)

By the way, how much is your new memory? where did you buy it?

 

 

Rari

7 Posts

March 16th, 2006 19:00

I haven't played any game long enough to give it a chance to flash black/blank yet.... but! did notice the blank screen problem after closing it/putting it into hibernation seems have been resolved! :D ty!

I bought generic memory from 4allmemory.com Originally placed two seperate orders of 1 gig ddr2 pc5300. Of course, they couldn't be paired. Called them, told them what I wanted and what I got. They were friendly about it. Fast service.

Need to shop around for a 9cell battery now...

mikers85

243 Posts

March 18th, 2006 17:00

Had same problem with stock drivers.  If you are working on something important and it happens don't freak.  If you attach a second monitor and hit the keyboard shortcut for monitor, you can use the second monitor to save your work.  I didn't try closing and re-opening the lid like the above post mentioned so you could try that too.

Rari

7 Posts

March 18th, 2006 22:00

actually since updating the dirvers from the site above, I haven't had any troubles w/ the screen. :) So, no "freak"ing here ;)

dbasse

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September 29th, 2006 06:00

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