JennyM
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- Jul 13, 2012
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My M15x motherboard was replaced 2 weeks ago under warranty because it was no longer reading one of the memory slots. I 'thought' the tech guy reinstalled windows and drivers, but he was working on my sons laptop at the same time, so I could be mixing them up.
Anyway, since then I've been getting flashing screens and blue stop error screens with messages like 'Attempt to reset the display driver & recover from timeout failed'
I've run a diagnostic from the f12 function, with no problems identified.
I phoned Dell and they said it was a software problem not a hardware problem so its not covered under warranty. They also said the OS hasn't been reinstalled since the motherboard was replaced, & told me to do that. They also said that I shouldn't have installed the latest Nvidia drivers for my Geforce GTX 260M, that I should be using the Dell driver for the graphics card - so I resinstalled the Dell driver last night and my world of warcraft is not even playable using that graphics driver. Massive difference in performance - even when I reduce the settings, its still choppy and really irritating to play.
So, my question is I guess mostly about the graphics, do you guys use the dell drivers for your graphics cards, or is there a way I can use the Nvidia drivers without crashes, and is that even the problem that is causing the crashes??? Please help!
Oh, should I also try reinstalling or doing a repair of windows 7 somehow?
Really want my lovely laptop working properly again
J