Okay before I ask this question, I will say that I have posted on both the dell tech support forum and a computer gaming enthusiast forum I go to and havent really gotten any responses so far, so I figured I may as well try here. The ****ing dell support forum is about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.
Laptop Specs:
1.83 ghz Intel Core Duo
1 gig ram
100gb 5200 rpm hdd
Geforce fx7900GS GO 256mb
XP media center edition 2005
Now for the problem:
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I bought an e1705 last summer, and it's been a relatively good laptop except for one thing... the video card. about 4 months ago it started giving me blue screens and errors, and i figured out that it was a bad video card, and needed to be sent in for replacement, which I had planned on doing. Well, they quoted me 1.5 weeks at the least for the total time the laptop would be gone... and i was in college at the time so thats a no can do for me. I couldn't ever find a couple weeks where I didn't need the laptop.
Also now, sometimes when I restart, the windows loading screen with the moving bar will not come up, and I have to turn the computer off and back on again. Sometimes it will do it repeatedly in a row, sometimes it won't. Also, I get random colored pixels that occur in random areas of my screen sometimes as well. On startup, at the windows loading screen there will be about 30 dots randomly plotted. On my desktop, maybe 3-5 at certain times, other times none.
Anyways, now that i'm out for summer, it is no longer under warranty, so I guess I have to buy a video card myself, not really a big deal since its my fault I couldnt get the laptop out I guess. I was just wondering what is the biggest video card that can fit in the E1705s. Will it be able to hold a GO 7950 GTX or some other newer video card?
I currently have a 7900gs and would like to upgrade if possible.
I got this code from the Dell Scan accessed from the Bios, and other scans reported similar results just no error code.
Error Code: 5300:0119
(which is a Video Memory Error)
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- Laptop is out of warranty
- Video card has been going bad for a few months
- Want to get it replaced ASAP because its been getting slightly worse over time, so hopefully it wont crap out on me.
- I want to know the biggest card that can fit in a Dell E1705. The 7900gs that is in my laptop has only a single heat pipe i'm pretty sure, so I assume that it can not fit any card that has 2, but im just assuming here because im not as familiar with laptops as i am with desktops. The reason for this is if I only have to spend an extra $50 or so bucks, I would most likely want to upgrade if possible, as I don't want to buy a brand new 7900gs that will be obsolete in 3 months. So anyone who is very familiar with laptop graphics cards, I could use some help. Thanks.
