u are so mean

yeah, evilhomura89!! you’re so evil!!

vincent, your friend Inspiron 1520 8600M GT is only DDR2 and as you know 1520 is build like a tank.
their heat sink is bigger that’s why the temp is cooler than our M1530.
last time, i'm also quite surprised to know their max temp are significatly lower.

Lolz...sorry if I have offended you and others
It's just the way how spy008 talk in the forum gets me fired up...
At least talk nicely ma...where is the forum etiquette in here?
I respect the others who ask and talk nicely in here...but not those who uses foul languages just because they couldn't get what they want or express their unsatisfied feelings in here



This post has been edited by evilhomura89: Sep 8 2008, 11:55 AM

i tried removing it through the device manager, but when I restart my comp, vista installs back the sigmatel drivers again. how did you do it?

wow, just back in from college! well, everyone chill, haha,

i have a qustion to ask, anyone of u had install a protector for ur xps sccreen and cover?

coz i saw my friends mac book, they give her a rubber case to protect her cover and the frame of the lcd, anyone heard of that b4?

Huh?

Strange,i manage to remove it last time.The lag is still there but much less.

Now,after my last HDD failure,i didnt install it anymore.The driver got a lot of problems.

lol why apologize to me.. wahhh did u offend me???

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Added on September 8, 2008, 5:41 pm
didn't hear rubber CASE before.. all i know about rubber protector is "invisibleShield" which is about rm140 for XPS M1530... Only protect the cover side and wristrest......... wrist rest is a common problem for all laptop where the color will come off or changes after some time of usage due to the friction from our wrist when typing...

This post has been edited by vincentlaw: Sep 8 2008, 05:41 PM

just got back my m1530!!! and hey, after looking at my bright new lcd, i've checked the hardware ids and tadaaaa!!!!:




isit LG? coz last time the cs said will try if got stock.....so...is this lg?

its something like this, but its for laptop! feel like wanna get it coz the invisible shield kinda pricy ><

nope didnt see b4... anyway this is ugly... for me, i wont be using it...

This post has been edited by vincentlaw: Sep 8 2008, 06:13 PM

see my signature

although LG screen is bright (hmm too bright!!) and zero-grains,
i found that the contrast is lower than samsung.
samsung black is black while lg black is just dark area.

i need to tweak my LG a bit when watching DVD/video.
if not video will look so grainy with a lot of artifacts

Nvidia gives OEMs $200 per bad mobile GPU
Monday, 08 September 2008 11:21

Nvidia announced that it will set aside 200 million to deal with the notebook issue. The big news that is usually forgotten is that Nvidia GPUs are mostly having an issue with throttling and they actually don’t die, at least not in most of the cases.

Nvidia made a deal with big OEMs, such as Dell and HP that they will get $200 per affected notebook and we are hearing that OEMs are quite happy about it. It turns out that this is more than generous and that this covers the cost of a new chip, the repair cost and all the other cost related to this issue.

Some end users on various forums have reported that the software released by HP sometimes sets the fan speed to maximum making their machines really noisy, which gets frustrating, while the other users didn’t report such a change. It turns out that the software / bios update will change the fan speed only on certain models but we couldn’t really find a pattern. Some designs are affected and some are not, but obviously, you will see more of this throttling issue with the notebooks that have a very hot environment.

End users are upset with Nvidia as there is very limited information about the issue, but Nvidia cannot talk on behalf of its OEM partners and it’s up to HP, Dell and other big OEMs to tell their customers what is wrong or what might go wrong with their machines. It’s a real mess as OEMs don’t really want to give much details and end users are the one who are affected the most.

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Nvidia mobile issue is not as bad
So far there are no recalls
Monday, 08 September 2008 10:46

We spent some time to figure out what is actually going on with Nvidia's notebook chip issue. We were told by multiple sources that the issues has been simply blown out of proportion and that the situation is definitely much better than most of the people believe.

We were told by industry sources that so far neither Dell or HP have recalled a single notebook using Nvidia GPUs. You might be aware that mostly notebooks with Geforce 7 and Geforce 8 mobile chips are affected and so far there are no any reports that Geforce 9 mobile series are having the same issue. The issue is related to a mobile chip packaging and obviously, someone used a wrong combination of materials that is leading to this issue.

Dell and HP have announced preventative software updates and extended warranty programs for affected models but they and other OEMs haven't issued full widespread GPU recalls. Dell and HP are probably the most affected simply as they are selling much more SKUs compared to anyone else. This should indicate that the mobile GPU problem is not a widespread epidemic.

We will keep our eyes open, but so far there has not been any big recalls of notebooks with Nvidia’s GPU and this is a significant detail that was not properly communicated with the market but this is up to OEM’s while Nvidia has to keep its mouth shut due to the contracts it has with big OEMs.

We were also told that the issue affects a small number of notebooks and it occurs mostly in some notebooks where the GPU and the rest of the machine is pushed to its limits, and even then it doesn’t happen every time. There will be more about this issue as it really caught our attention.

Compared to Sony's recent recall of 440,000 VAIO notebooks, the Nvidia issue really doesn't seem to be a significant one, as it has not forced a single vendor to recall a single unit.

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i was hoping they recall and replace equivalent 9 series GPU for us..

This post has been edited by vincentlaw: Sep 8 2008, 06:53 PM

really? hem2... so mine is LG rite? but i can see it clearly the huge difference between my previous samsung....its brighter and sharper...and watching movie no prob at all, and ive read all over internet, LG is the best for m1530, perhaps u just unlucky....call them and ask for swap!! and i just read in the policy again, actually, we can only change the lcd if got dead pixel of 6 and above (correct me) and bright pixel of 1 and above, and i've got one dead pixel! haha! its just pure luck.......happy...happy...happy...

at last official words for Nvidia. i want 9600M GT!!

but the problem with M1530 design, the graphic card is integrated on the mobo.
to change the GPU to Geforce 9 series, Dell need to redesign the mobo again and definitely it will cost more $$$$
are Dell willing to do that?

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Added on September 8, 2008, 7:09 pm
well, depends on videos and movies, especially that have a lot dark scenes.
if you look carefully, you can see more artifacts.

or maybe the screen is just too bright that i can see all the unwanted thingy.
i'm a bit cerewet regarding screen quality

although not 100% perfect, overall LG is very nice screen

This post has been edited by hrd: Sep 8 2008, 07:10 PM

congratz on getting yr new LCD
another same user like me...manage to get LG LCD aft the 1st replacement ^^

9600M GT...nah... way too impossible to be done....

9500M GS or 9600M GS shud be good enuf for 9600M GT equivalent...

or maybe 8700gt ot 8800gt!!! good news, hope dell will do something bout it!

Looks like a PDA's condom to me.

I wont put it on my laptop.



Lol,dont think dell will do that.

Dell already got it in XPS M1710 ma.Bulky..

then later can boast like 17 user...ahyahhahah!