Posts by dk_speedrun

Update. Just after trying everything, I disassembled the lappy, cleaned the card's contact points, put it back, and bingo! The game worked with alternate frame rendering. Although it runs very slow like 10-15 fps when in "alternate...

Ok, the problem seems very strange. I did a complete factory recovery last night, and the game then worked perfectly. I updated the drivers and in the settings I changed SLI rendering mode to "force alternate frame rendering", and thats...

Hello. Recently I installed F1 2011 on my lappy. Everything was running ok though F1 2011 was running very low fps. Then a few days back I cleaned my graphics card fans and the cards as well. I restarted the lappy and just to get a...

My brother was playing Dota-Warcraft the other day and all of a sudden the laptop restarted. After that the laptop would do fine for sometime, then suddenly it would slow down. I checked CPU usage and it showed and average of 90%. I...

But considering the fact that the M17x has a powered eSATA port, it should work without any glitches, right?

Hello everyone. I am going to buy a new external hdd. I am considering the seagate goflex ultra-portable 1TB drive with the eSATA cable upgrade. I would just like to know thought if anyone here has used this drive with the eSATA cable...

The technician arrived today, and as always I had to help him a bit on how to open up the laptop! Replaced the CPU fan, and the Graphics card fan (it was making noise). When I asked why was the mobo and the graphics cards delivered, he...

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn You were (crazily) brave for starting the comp without the fan being connected Yes system does shut itself down when critical heat is present. Good luck with the replacement...

I dug out the graphic card fans, cleaned them, and i was really shocked to see the amout of dust that was clogged in the vents. The graphics cards are runnig at good temps now, around 45. But something went wrong while replacing the CPU...

I cleaned the CPU, but i didnt dig deep to clean the GPU fans. About the thermal paste I am afraid that I might make a mess of it as I havent really done it earlier.