Dell Latitude Laptop D630 with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M Graphics Card.
Its summer time and temperature above 40degrees C. Laptop started freezing after running for a while, ranging from 10 minutes to 30 minutes. You could see that nothing else works, no keys nothing.
Thought might be some software problem. However, figured out its the problem with the graphics cards themselves. Unfortunate to have got this problem after 1 year of warranty expiration due to very low laptop usage.
Links that talk about this problem:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1028703/all-nvidia-g84-g86s-bad
http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2008/08/18/nvidia-gpu-update-dell-to-offer-warranty-enhancement-to-all-affected-customers-worldwide.aspx
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3519/t/19286119.aspx
Dell should have been more proactive about providing this information to customers. I am going to try to contact them to get it fixed. However, if they don't help out, then there is no other alternative. But that shows that what these laptop vendors can do to customers.
Its summer time and temperature above 40degrees C. Laptop started freezing after running for a while, ranging from 10 minutes to 30 minutes. You could see that nothing else works, no keys nothing.
Thought might be some software problem. However, figured out its the problem with the graphics cards themselves. Unfortunate to have got this problem after 1 year of warranty expiration due to very low laptop usage.
Links that talk about this problem:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1028703/all-nvidia-g84-g86s-bad
http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2008/08/18/nvidia-gpu-update-dell-to-offer-warranty-enhancement-to-all-affected-customers-worldwide.aspx
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3519/t/19286119.aspx
Dell should have been more proactive about providing this information to customers. I am going to try to contact them to get it fixed. However, if they don't help out, then there is no other alternative. But that shows that what these laptop vendors can do to customers.
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