Re: "snow" on a Thinkpad T42 display & external monitor

On 9/12/07, Jones, John (US) <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

1. Nope.
2. Reloading or upgrading the video driver may fix it if the problem is
that the video driver has been corrupted somehow.
3. Most BIOS updaters are Windows apps nowadays; there's little danger
in performing an update & it usually takes longer to find the update on
the vendor's site than it does to install (not counting the post-install
reboot). Dell advises only applying updates when the system is on AC
power which seems like a good precaution.

Upgrading the video driver did not resolve the situation. This makes sense
since the "snow" occurs from the instant the laptop is powered on, long
before Windows starts up.

I'm guessing the video adapter is integrated on the mobo, and I'm wondering
if taking out and reseating the RAM might be worth a shot. I take the
laptop home every night, so it gets normal jostling. They did a memory
upgrade on this laptop a while ago (replaced two 512MBs with two 1GBs), and
I am certain that the "snow" problems didn't start until after that upgrade
(although how soon after, I can't recall).

It is *really* starting to annoy now, and it is a bit draining to have to do
my work with this.

- Dan