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Screnn flashes with horisontal lines

  • 08-10-2009 09:56AM
    #1
    marinchik
    Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    Hope to get some advice. I was experiencing recently some problems with my Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop. The horisontal lines would appear on a screen and then 5 min later ti would start to flash and then blue screen appears with error message saying that the file: nv4_disp is causing the trouble. So i did some searching on the net and gor advice that this is nvidia video card and I should remove the drive and download it again from Nvidia site, I did so, and my laptop was working great for the next 30min and then screen would have same horisontal lines and start flashing but the error screen would not appear this time.

    So any advise what might causing it? Any advise appreciated. Thanks a mill


Comments

  • #2
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    Your graphics card could be on the way out.

    What is it? Nvidia 7900? High-end graphics cards from that era seem to have a very high failure rate after a few years. Ive heard of a lot of 7900 and 7950s die in laptops.


  • #3
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Sounds like heating problems tbh. Are you experiencing uncomfortably hot temps on the laptop?

    Nvidia cards - im calling it - Id never buy one again. Failure rates are too high.


  • #4
    marinchik
    Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭marinchik


    Thanks a mill for your replies.

    I think my Nvidia card is 7300, not too sure though. It was installed by manufacturer. I have this laptop for 4 years now.

    Now when you mentioned the heating, i cam eto think It does actually get very hot on one side. it started when i was keeping my laptop on my bed while working with it untill advised to always have some firm base under so the ventilation would work properly... Can i do something about it?

    Best Regards


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