Rob_Impreza99

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I`m not sure if someone has posted a link to this story before so i appologise if its already been discussed, its not good if you have one of these certain types of Nvidia graphics cards as it sounds like they are a ticking time bomb waiting to fail. I have a sony with the 8600GT Graphics card

A whole thread on it including the models of graphics cards affected, it seems mainly to affect Dell, HP and Sony equipment.

Defective Nvidia chipsets in your current Vaio? - Notebook Forums and Laptop Discussion

One of the stories about it

All Nvidia G84 and G86s are bad - The INQUIRER

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I'm glad I paid for an extended warranty on my Dell, and on top of that Dell appear to be adding an extra 12 months on for this specific issue, I'm covered until early 2012, thank goodness

Sonic'

Im currently trying to extend the warranty on my Dell Vostro too, as I chose the Nvidia version, wish I hadnt now

Kieran_Burns

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Looks like my decision to push the boat out and get the 8800GTX was a good idea!

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Their not saying it will fail, just that they've had a higher than usual failure rate. Mind you, as they don't probably say what the usual rate is and how much higher it is, it's possible they're all sh1te, but I doubt it. My prvious experiences of these sorts of situations has been a particular model of hard disk, which ended up with about a 90% failure rate in the first year, and cd drives where the tray wouldn't open if it wasn't used enough, and that was well over 50% as well. It sucks, I just hope it's at the lower end of the scale of failure rates.

Rob_Impreza99

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I can imagine how hard it was to get any sense out of Dell india ltd, my only dealings with them was to try and buy a D-Link wireless mini USB adapter which is the one below.

Dell : DLink Systems D-Link DWA-140 Wireless N USB Mini Adapter : Computer Components : Home & Home Office

Very easy you would think, it must have took about 5 attempts to try and get someone to understand what i wanted, i even gave them the D-Link part number which is on their own web page but it was still very hard work because they have foriegn speaking call centres ansd this one was indian.

staffs Mike

My 8400gs already failed on me due to this.

You'll know it when it comes:

1st stage: Windows Crash, might recover itself with a VGA driver error.
It did this 4 times to me over 1 day.

*call dell after the 2nd crash and sort out getting it changed as it's about to get a lot worse*

2nd Stage:
Graphic corruption in windows leading to crash.

3rd Stage:Graphic corruption buring boot up, crash.

4th Stage: Lines everywhere no boot up.

This happened over about 2 days for me.

I have 4 Years warranty anyway + the extra 12 months graphics cover though so all is well

As it's dell it was sorted next day no fuss

If you don't play games or push the graphics very hard (external monitors etc..) it might never happen..