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| According to the Dell site, the laptop has a vga connector. Plug a cable into that and an external monitor. One of the function keys will have a screen icon on it. Press and hold the Fn key, and that function key, to get the video output to go to the external screen.
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| | OMG I just got a new computer last week a new HP Pavilion PC which has windows vista and everytime I restart I get a similar screen and I also did the diagnostics and everything passed even the video card. I can't figure out what it is, and wondering if I should take the computer back? Here is what my screen does when restarting http://aycu38.webshots.com/image/37917/2004330657385662795_rs.jpg |
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| Lol, that would make a nice background  With new computers with problems its best to return it and swap it for a new one, rather than try and fix it yourself.
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| | Hey, well i read somewhere holding down fn + power button will auto run the system dignostics (this was the only way to get anthying but a screen with mulitcolored vertical lines all over it) and after running the test ,of couse found nothing wrong, but i could run the system restore, after restoring the computer ran just as before, so im not thinking its a hardware problem. Ive have done 2 system restores before but the proplem kept comming back, but only after an hour or so of running(now im guessing that is the time it took for the windows update to complete) as soon as the computer came back on this time, i saw windows update was running and i heard other people had proplem after the update so ive stopped the update and my computer has been running fine since. |
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| | Thanks for the background. This is exactly the issue I encountered after installing the latest Nvidia Display driver, i.e. vertical color lines with white patches. The problem also occurs with Ubuntu after a longer period of being logged in. I resolved the problem with the following fix:
1. Loggin using safe mode and deactivate all Nvidia drivers and rollback driver via computer management>Device Manager>Display Adapter>Driver
2. Restart and Login to normal mode and reinstall the original Nvidia Driver that came in your Dell M1330 Drivers and Utilities CD, will go through a deinstall install ,process and reboot PC. Recommend that if you are not comfortable performing this procedure you log a call with the Dell help desk for a technician to fix. Hope this is of help sounds like a common problem with no official fix. |
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| This is NVIDIA graphic card issue. Disable it from device manager and it will work fine. And after that log the complaint and get your motherboard replaced (graphic card chip is integrated on motherboard).
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