the laptop from hell

[Clearviper]

ive had this laptop (dell inspiron n4110) for about 3 weeks ago and in the time ive had i've had to fix it so many times 

whoever had this laptop before me destroyed it.... it was really cheap and thats why i bought it, when i was testing it out in the parkinglot the screen got all graphic glitchy which is weird

cause this has a intel hd 3000... and the fan wasnt working either (it was upsde down) so i took home and thought hey maybe it was a bug in windows 10. so i reinstalled windows freshly new drivers and up to date

then the next day the gpu glitches come back and alot worse this time around and kept happening everytime i'd leave my cursor in a spot for a minute and move it. it would do it

or randomly sometimes. so i thought maybe it windows 10 it self... so i grabbed a 1tb from my imac and stuck it in here and loaded windows 7 

 

No issues at all and it sucks cause i would use linux but im not sure i can do what i want to on here with linux

 

week 2. it was running great got everything working then BAM

wont turn  on the light flashes for a split second and shuts off, no the battery was dead

so i took the entire motherboard out and reset  and used some compressed air and put it back together

and it turned on again however when i went to go my cursor it wasnt moving so i tried to see the issue and the little tab that holds in the cable that connect those weird flap ports

so im like i dont need one right? 

no i did need one and the trackpads off ebay are crazy so i tried fixing for an hour and then gave up and said well oh no, ig was cheap what did i expect

and gave up and like now approaching the 3rd week or just over

i tried just pulling some cable piece from a partt in this dell i never used and been able to get to work.....

also not to mention the keyboard is even screwed down. neither is the hdd/fans/speakers and loads of case screws are missing

the one this laptop does really good is  the battery for a laptop its really good

 

thats in windows 8/88.1/10/11

and it works fine with no gpu driver. but what doesnt make sense to me is that ive had a hd 3000 machine running perfect but not on this

but yea it was nice little project work on

but i've it so many times crazy

[jaslion]

This thing is fried. As in either the display cable is fucked or most likely the gpu inside the cpu is just dead. The second you saw the screen glitch you should have immediatly STOPPED and walked away. If its the gpu its done no fixing at all ever. Cpu is soldered so no dice.

 

8 minutes ago, Clearviper said:

lso not to mention the keyboard is even screwed down. neither is the hdd/fans/speakers and loads of case screws are missing

the one this laptop does really good is  the battery for a laptop its really good

 

This was someones project laptop and instead of binning it they sold it to someone.

 

Don't spend money on it it's like 50$ for a bussiness class dell latitude from ebay with buyer protection.

 

[Clearviper]

Just now, jaslion said:

This thing is fried. As in either the display cable is fucked or most likely the gpu inside the cpu is just dead. The second you saw the screen glitch you should have immediatly STOPPED and walked away. If its the gpu its done no fixing at all ever. Cpu is soldered so no dice.

 

This was someones project laptop and instead of binning it they sold it to someone.

 

Don't spend money on it it's like 50$ for a bussiness class dell latitude from ebay with buyer protection.

 

if it was the gpu shouldnt it be doing it on 7 aswekk

[jaslion]

3 minutes ago, Clearviper said:

if it was the gpu shouldnt it be doing it on 7 aswekk

It depends on the load sometimes but since it does it in everythng but one this is most definitly a hardware defect

[Clearviper]

Just now, jaslion said:

It depends on the load sometimes but since it does it in everythng but one this is most definitly a hardware defect

i've ran an older version on this and it did fine on windows 7 and 10 the glitchs are sometimes random on 10. i've seen none since going to 7

[jaslion]

37 minutes ago, Clearviper said:

i've ran an older version on this and it did fine on windows 7 and 10 the glitchs are sometimes random on 10. i've seen none since going to 7

Either way it is having an issue and what it could also be is a memory defect since 7 by default uses less it can be that that is triggering it. The hd3000 is also going to run at lower clock speeds on 7 due to it being much lighter when it has to run at higher speeds on 8/10/11 due to constant hardware accelerated interfaces wheras 7 is lighter in that way. Most likely it's a consistant load issue so you can try to run a benchmark like unigene heaven for an hour or so and see if it pops up. If it does it's just a longer high usage defect.

 

either way this shows a hardware defect of some kind sftware wise would be very very very strange

[Clearviper]

6 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Either way it is having an issue and what it could also be is a memory defect since 7 by default uses less it can be that that is triggering it. The hd3000 is also going to run at lower clock speeds on 7 due to it being much lighter when it has to run at higher speeds on 8/10/11 due to constant hardware accelerated interfaces wheras 7 is lighter in that way. Most likely it's a consistant load issue so you can try to run a benchmark like unigene heaven for an hour or so and see if it pops up. If it does it's just a longer high usage defect.

 

either way this shows a hardware defect of some kind sftware wise would be very very very strange

i already did try the memory with memtest and also changing different slots

and i to agree it is very strange....... well i mean it runs decently on 7 and did pay much for it so not too mad about it

ive already fixed a bunch of stuff in here... the guy who sold the laptop before left a dying hard drive in it aswell

other then those things it functions okay ish. it has it''s moments and what not but for now it gets the job needs to get done.

[spacepickle]

what did you pay for it?

[Clearviper]

45 minutes ago, spacepickle said:

what did you pay for it?

20 cad i just needed sonething cheap and if it the cpu it really expensive to get replaced it  alot of good and no so good quaility

[spacepickle]

2 hours ago, Clearviper said:

20 cad i just needed sonething cheap and if it the cpu it really expensive to get replaced it  alot of good and no so good quaility

Eh 20 cad ain’t bad, it it works it works and if it doesn’t you’re not in that bad of shape.