Posts by Disillusion

This is very strange. Do you have experience with opening up your laptop and working on the parts inside? If so, I'd try reverting everything back to original. Original BIOS and video card. See if your problems go away. Since your...

The video playback problems are not likely related to the video card. At least, they shouldn't be. The CPU takes care of encoding videos and playing them. Here's my guess for your "no bootable devices found" problem. First...

Quote: Originally Posted by fishmando2 Disillusion, YOU ARE THE MAN! Today is my birthday and I having been sitting in bed, sick with mono. And I was all pissed about my laptop not working right. I don't know how but...

Go into the BIOS settings and make sure that SpeedStep is enabled. If you haven't been messing with BIOS settings, it shouldn't have gotten turned off, but who knows. Also make sure you are using the newest A05 BIOS. What are you...

Those temps should be just fine. Nothing to worry about. Myself and a friend of mine both have 2 GB (he's had his over a year now), both run similar temps and neither of us have had a problem. He has G.Skill and I have Kingston.

The foam makes up for large gap between the heatsink the die on the chip. Unless you replace it with a piece of copper or something, I wouldn't take it off. If you want to lower northbridge temps, try a laptop cooler. I have a custom...

50 is about what mine can get up to at idle, specially if it's not propped up or anything and sitting flat on my desk. Is yours sitting flat? What are your temps after a few minutes of gaming? Under a load, when mine isn't sitting on...

Glad I could help. Good luck with your OCing.

Quote: Originally Posted by rogue_blade why does everyone say they want a better video card when the main problem with laptops is CPU bottlenecking???? Because this is a gaming laptop and the best CPUs in...

Yeah, nvidia control panel will work just fine. But, if you have the newest version of ATI tool, I believe it will work just as well, plus you get artifact testing with it.