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M1730 woes
So after many support calls on my M1730 (multiple hdd failures, gfx failures dead mobos) Dell finally order me a replacement machine and upgrade the GFX to the new 8800's (result)
Get that machine, power on and all i get is a screen show of different colours, so DOA.
Anyone else had similar issues?
They sell maybe hundreds a week of those machine. And maybe one or two has a problem. The others you will probably never hear about because they are trouble free. This is a place to look for solutions to problems you have, not to judge the machine. Just having this place here is a credit to Dell. I like being here to help if I can, or to look for a solution to problems that may or may not happen.
- Setup my 1730 last weekend, happy so far. Only issue was seting up a printer driver that works, minor Vista tweaks.
8200 on 3Dmark06
Vista Ultimate
T9300 2.5GHz processor
4 GB ram
RAID Performance: 400GB (2x200GB) 7200RPM
512MB Dual NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI
2 Inspiron 9300, awhile back(do not remember), 1 dvd drive failure, battery replacement issue for both.
Gen 1 XPS, no issues/failures.
XPS 400 desktop, no issues/failures. tigerwolf7
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Posted March 3rd, 2008 21:00
Whoops, sorry :)
Folding
Sounds like the Macbook Pro can't take it, but I'm hoping the 1730 can handle it. All my systems Fold whenever they're on, and I actually tend to buy more CPU power than I need just for Folding :)tigerwolf7
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Posted March 3rd, 2008 21:00
Well, that's good to hear. Do you Fold on yours, and if so does it stand up to the strain okay?
Well, I never really tried folding my laundry on it, but it might work? :smileyvery-happy: If you mean closing and opening the lid, I must do that several times a day and no problems.
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Well, that's good to hear. Do you Fold on yours, and if so does it stand up to the strain okay?
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Posted March 3rd, 2008 22:00
Oh cool, on the 1730? How's it handling it? Another poster is folding on a little 12" Dell, so I'm guessing the 1730 should be just fine, but still, it's so much money that I like knowing before I buy it :)Message Edited by tigerwolf7 on 03-03-2008 06:59 PMIt seems to be doing fine. But since I don't keep it running long, I haven't finished one in time for the deadline. The first one was for 500,000 I thought it finished, because it started on a new 1,000,000 one. But that one didn't finish before the 3/3/08 deadline. So now it's started another.
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Posted March 3rd, 2008 23:00
Does it get loud or hot or anything? The 2.4Ghz/4MB Macbook Pro's fans go nuts after about 30 seconds of Folding, and I get the impression it's not really designed to handle that (does the same thing with games).
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Posted March 3rd, 2008 14:00