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I have a dell c810 laptop that when running on batteries is fine.
When i plug the power cord in, about 1/3 of the screen turns dark after about 10-15 min. I unplug it and the screen returns to normal. I have used a different power cord (supply) also. I was wondering if it could be the power board assembly that was bad?
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I have one of these babies too (but only for a week so far). Hate to check the obvious, but have you gone into Control Panel - Power Management and/or the Dell-supplied QuickSet program? It might be that you are inadvertently configured to be in 'Maximum Battery' mode even when your AC plug is in; I think that program shuts down the brightness of the screen after a while.
Sorry - scratch that thought. This laptop is a D810 not a C810 so the software config could be different. Must be the end of the work day or something :-)
Patrick,
C810's and the entire c8xxx series have issues w/video cards, since they do a little bit of the power duty, along with the power board itself. However, first things first; does it exhibit the same behavouir on the ext. monitor? The next step if it does NOT would be to swap the video card.
the external monitor does not fade out but the lap top still does.
any advise on where to buy a video card for this laptop ?
thanks
patrick
Well, find out the dell part #, (c8xx video cards aren't always interchangable, www.bay-wolf.com has info on this, it depends on different screens and inverters)
Post the part # and i can give you a list of vendors who have it.
Off the top of my head, impactcomputers.com, but there are a lot of dell parters (people who junk out broken laptops) on ebay.
dell part #'s are 5 digits, it should be like this;
d p/n then usually the next 5 digits.
Will look for your reply.
DP/N TW-01G544-69700-17P-1326
i found it for around $150 to $200.
hope you can do better
thanks
patrick
Geez,
I used to stock them here for a lot less than that. Don't have any in stock. I checked brokerbin.com, impactcomputers.com has them for $129.99. Affordablecomputers.com has a comparable part, a 32mb geforce 4 go card for the c840 for $79.99. Either would work. Both have a generous return policy, all that means is you got more than 1 day to test it out. 7 -day return no questions asked, 30-day warranty on both. That's all i can find dude.
:) Hey replaced the same video card in laptop and its been on for about 8 hrs now and no dark screen :rolleyes: .
reseating the card seems to have fixed the problem for now :thumbs2:
thanks for all your help
patrick
No sweat man - enjoy