I always asked myself when this particular notebook will fail. Almost everybody I know who got this notebook got his mainboard replaced in the last year. Now it seems that it’s time for my Latitude to get a new set of chips.
It crashed while I was using it and since that it only boots up like this:
Oh I looked up which graphic chip that actually is. It’s a NVidia NVS135 chip – not like I thought the NVS160 which is embedded in my current generation latitude. Thank god I got 3 year repair and replacement….
have the same problem on my Dell D630 laptop. Is motherboard replacement really necessary?
well depends… they tried the cooler-replacement which did not work, so they replaced the mainboard… which did the trick.
trying to find mainbord replacement. Do you know is motherboard for Dell Latitude D630 Part# R872J compatible with Part# PN302. Both have Nvidia GPU.
thanks for the answer.
i had the same problem with d630 in dock with to monitors,
and the system board was replaced,
now my coworker has already second mobo but still the same problem.
i found from google, that dell gives extra 12months warranty to gpu issue
http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2008/08/18/nvidia-gpu-update-dell-to-offer-warranty-enhancement-to-all-affected-customers-worldwide.aspx
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