Laptop keeps crashing on start up, help please

S0litaire

"Artefacts" is a technical word used to describe unwanted visual items on a display, either caused by compression of the displayed media:
People would see this as blocks of colour in fast moving video, or bursts of colours due to they way the video was compressed.

Or due to physical problems like: damaged cables, video memory problems, GPU/video card overheating. These can cause unwanted blocks of colours or lines across the display.

also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_artifact

Dell is probably using "Clear English"; using non-technical terms in it's documentations...

paul_and_shark

* UPDATE *

Engineer called and repaired the machine on thursday, all working well and will save me the money that i was going to use to replace it. :beer:

T_T_2

Great news, glad to hear it! :T

RussJK

paul_and_shark wrote: »

* UPDATE *
Engineer called and repaired the machine on thursday, all working well and will save me the money that i was going to use to replace it. :beer:

You missed out on the important bit: did he call them artefacts, artifacts, bananaramas, or lines?

(congrats!)

paul_and_shark

RussJK wrote: »

You missed out on the important bit: did he call them artefacts, artifacts, bananaramas, or lines?

(congrats!)

haha, Don't know as i was at work so it was the bread knife who dealt with him, and she hasn't got a scooby doo about computers, so she would of just let him get on with it :j :rotfl: