Recently I've been having some problems with my family's 2008 Dell Studio XPS 435mt. Multicolored pixels and lines will sometimes occupy the screen at random times during normal use and will always occur when I try to launch a game, followed by a system crash.
When it attempts to reboot, it gets to the bios screen and the problem appears again as soon as the Dell logo flashes on the screen. The screen then goes black and the computer sometimes attempts to boot again, but most of the time just idles and the screen goes into power save mode.
This problem disappeared for a few days and then reappeared. I'm not sure of the exact system specs, but it's running Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP2 with:
ATI Radeon HD4670
Quad core Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz
6 GB Ram
I learned that the graphics card was replaced under warranty less than two years after we bought the computer when the same problem occurred.
So what's my first course of action? Do I need to replace my graphics card? Thanks in advance.
When it attempts to reboot, it gets to the bios screen and the problem appears again as soon as the Dell logo flashes on the screen. The screen then goes black and the computer sometimes attempts to boot again, but most of the time just idles and the screen goes into power save mode.
This problem disappeared for a few days and then reappeared. I'm not sure of the exact system specs, but it's running Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP2 with:
ATI Radeon HD4670
Quad core Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz
6 GB Ram
I learned that the graphics card was replaced under warranty less than two years after we bought the computer when the same problem occurred.
So what's my first course of action? Do I need to replace my graphics card? Thanks in advance.