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RADEON 9000 ERRORS ON INSPIRON 600M
I have been reinstalling windows on a 600m, and have encountered errors when installing the ati radeon 9000 driver for the 64mb ATI radeon Mobility. Upon restarting the computer I get various distortions of the screen, and then blackness. Now if I hook the laptop to an external monitor I can see the screen.
The following message appears: "VPU Recover has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphics driver commands" "VPU RECOVER was unable to fully recover from a hardware deadlock, and has switched to software rendering, to restore hardware rendering you must restart your computer."
I will continually recieve this message regardless of which driver version I use. I ran a diagnostic test on the card, and recieve no errors. I have tried a variety of driver versions, with the same results, any suggestions.
600M
1.3 centrino 1MB L2 Cache
64 mb ATI RAdeon 9000
20 GB HD
512 MB RAM
WINXP SP2
DVD+RW drive
Sigmate19750 Audio
mark7tenor
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Posted December 27th, 2005 11:00
I've got the same thing as both of you. At first I had the distortions and completely locked up. Eventually I had to shut it down the hard way. I think it actually got better when I flashed with the newest bios (A17). Now it just goes black after the startup screen and I can tell Windows is going through its startup programs. When I hit Fn-F8 it goes back to (relative) normal. Unfortunately, the card has stopped responding to the drivers and therefore ALL of the acceleration is being done by the CPU. Needless to say, it now runs very slow. Even though Dell's overseas support is totally clueless, maybe I'll give them another shot now that I have more info. I'm sure they'll just tell me the card is bad and I have to buy a new one. Good luck!
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I just remembered...There are absolutely no issues if I don't install the chipset drivers. Something is screwy with how the 2 work together.Message Edited by mark7tenor on 12-27-2005 08:12 AM
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Posted March 15th, 2006 14:00
Update:
If you can get in under VGA mode or safe mode, turn off all acceleration. It stinks to not be able to use the hardware acceleration, but at least the computer can be used.
From what I've read online, Dell did a very bad job with cooling of the 600m. One quote even said that the person had to buy a laptop cooler to keep the memory from melting. This all looks right to me, because every label on the bottom of the laptop has melted off.
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I have since reformatted, yet again, and I have the actual, latest video driver installed, but not the chip driver. I am using full hardware acceleration. As soon as the chipset driver is installed, it's down for the count. What do 2 and 2 get you?Message Edited by mark7tenor on 03-18-2006 06:52 PM
mark7tenor
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Posted March 10th, 2008 10:00
Your RAM shouldn't produce any noticeable heat. However, from what I've seen in all my research, the Inspirons are pretty bad when it comes to heat dissipation. It seems as though this video problem is just that the video card has gone bad. Unfortunately, replacing the video card means replacing the motherboard. In that case you're better off buying a new laptop. If you turn off hardware acceleration it should work fine, but you won't have the added glitz of hardware accel. No more gaming!
Jonathan Hall
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Tony9200
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Posted December 21st, 2005 15:00
Don't feel bad, I have a 9200 that once the Radeon drivers are installed, the screen doesn't come up. I have to go into safe mode to uninstall the drivers. On top of that, it has been sent into Dell depot 3 times and still isn't fixed. I think the LCD is going bad and can't display the higher resolution.