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Inspiron 6400 Dell
Has been unused for some time. Fired it up, all settings appear
complete and OK, however several screens - even Software Manager do not display completely. Neither Firefox or Internet Explorer are displaying web pages completely, they come though as if they are in a primitive basic mode, buttons have lines through them, areas are not coloured that normally are, etc etc. I have spent several hours trying to trouble shoot, make changes, screen resolution, number of colours, looking for drivers/updates etc, nothing I have done has made the slightest difference. Some of my regular web sites have been rendered unusable! Can anyone help??? |
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 17:39:31 -0800 (PST), David
wrote: Has been unused for some time. Fired it up, all settings appear complete and OK, however several screens - even Software Manager do not display completely. Neither Firefox or Internet Explorer are displaying web pages completely, they come though as if they are in a primitive basic mode, buttons have lines through them, areas are not coloured that normally are, etc etc. I have spent several hours trying to trouble shoot, make changes, screen resolution, number of colours, looking for drivers/updates etc, nothing I have done has made the slightest difference. Some of my regular web sites have been rendered unusable! Can anyone help??? According to Google, that laptop uses: Graphics: - Integrated Intel® Media Accelerator 950 Graphics but Dell's driver download page shows that it could also have ATI integrated graphics. You said you "looked" for drivers, but did you install/reinstall any? I would try reinstalling the graphics driver. Since you haven't used it in a while, maybe you could save off anything (pictures, etc.) you want to keep and then restore the factory image. Most laptops have the original factory image on a hidden partition of the drive, and usually have a utility (often found on the CD) to restore it. |
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"Foke" wrote in message ... On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 17:39:31 -0800 (PST), David wrote: Has been unused for some time. Fired it up, all settings appear complete and OK, however several screens - even Software Manager do not display completely. Neither Firefox or Internet Explorer are displaying web pages completely, they come though as if they are in a primitive basic mode, buttons have lines through them, areas are not coloured that normally are, etc etc. I have spent several hours trying to trouble shoot, make changes, screen resolution, number of colours, looking for drivers/updates etc, nothing I have done has made the slightest difference. Some of my regular web sites have been rendered unusable! Can anyone help??? According to Google, that laptop uses: Graphics: - Integrated Intel® Media Accelerator 950 Graphics but Dell's driver download page shows that it could also have ATI integrated graphics. You said you "looked" for drivers, but did you install/reinstall any? I would try reinstalling the graphics driver. Since you haven't used it in a while, maybe you could save off anything (pictures, etc.) you want to keep and then restore the factory image. Most laptops have the original factory image on a hidden partition of the drive, and usually have a utility (often found on the CD) to restore it. or by holding F12 at start up. |
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