Video Crash, crazy pattern, (usually with Visual Studio)

therealdrag0

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This summer I am an intern at a company and because they are so busy with their projects they opened up their code to me to try and do stuff on the project I work with.
But I have been getting the following screen fairly often. At least every other day, sometimes twice a day. It most commonly occurs when working with Visual Studio 08 but it is not exclusive, I have had it happen when at home just doing random stuff..
I think it's a graphics card thing. Because my music still plays. Also the top 5-10 pixels I can tell are a distorted clip of my normal screen and when I push lots of keys, or ever try intelligently to do something with the keyboard I can see the colors up there changing, sometime the whole color pattern changes.

Any Ideas?

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9700 NVIDIA 7900 GS WITH 256MB SLI
Caption: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS
Adapter RAM: 256MB
DriverVersion: 6.14.10.8474
 
Well, you aren't suffering from a defective 8400m/8600m, but it does look to me like a video card issue. Now would be the time to call up Alienware and see about getting your laptop fixed, assuming your warranty is still good.
 
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