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 I was just 18 months out of date!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