Posts by Atticus999

Thanks man, i appreciate the quick response considering im freaking out about this. Im emailing istnc now.

Hey everyone, I have had my laptop for about 2 months. at college its always plugged in for i really have no need to bring it to class. well i went home this weekend and of course i didnt plug it in thinking that i would have to cause...

Haha, no heat and no fan would be perfect. But, im more than sure at this point that i was just being paranoid. The fan speed and sound was probably completely in the normal range. My friend brought his z71v over and we updated his...

I did some reading and found that the cpu runs hotter while on AC power, thus causing the fans to work a little harder. So i tried running the half life 2 stress test on battery power and found that the fans will kick in fast during...

I updated to 80.44 and while the visual performance was good, I still noticed alot of fan noise. The fan speed did slow down alot when i stopped playing however it was still spinning faster than it does right after start-up before i run...

hmm, ill try the 80.44 tonight, hopefully it solve the fan issue while maintaining my visual performance. From what ive heard and read, updating your drivers, especially your video drivers can give you a decent performance boost. ...

Hmm, i updated to 77.72 and while the bf2 plays great on medium i have found that either the fans got louder than when i first got the laptop or like in rob's case my fans are spinning faster and not returning to normal speed after i...

hmm, ok so let me make sure i have this straight before i try again. 1) extract the nvidia files to a directory, in this case C:\NVIDIA\Win2kXP\77.72 and replace the .inf with the new modded .inf file. 2) Uninstall the last NVIDIA...

Hmm, Which driver do you use now? And how well does it run for you on stock settings? cause im not ready to overclock anything, lol. I updated my driver accidently to 76.44, and it ran fairly smooth on medium settings with dynamic...

Thanks for the help SMP, however once I figured it all out and finished installing and rebooted the machine, I checked the driver version, and it said 76.44?? What happened to the 77.72? I downloaded the driver right from the nvidia...