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post #1 of 7
12/2/03 at 8:29pm
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Well I've managed to fix a lot of the problems on my machine by simply reinstalling the OS and all of the drivers. It is finally starting to turn into an awesome laptop.

-Wireless works great
-Mouse does not skip
-The newest 7.95 drivers allow you to turn the Gamma down enough and keep the settings

However there is one problem that has carried over and it leads me to believe that it might be bad hardware. I am currious if any of you have had this issue.
When gamming for more than 10mins, even when using the supplied Quake 3 demo, the video will become very snowy, almost like the way a TV behaves when the cable wire is loose on the back. Accompanied by this is a fair of amount of pixelation in various colors. Then, the computer will Blue Screen, and reboot itself. The same thing also occurs during 3dMark01se and 3dMark03. The tests will not even finish. On C&C Generals, it makes it to the options screen and then the computer freezes.
My guess is either an overheat of some kind or some defective hardware. The computer was very well ventilated and in a very cool room for each of these scenarios. The GPU fan seems to be working fine.
Anyone experience this or have any ideas?
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post #2 of 7
12/2/03 at 8:56pm
I'm not sure bout a laptop but I had something like this happen a desktop. Mine was a bad Motherboard. But have you tried checking to make sure if the upgradeable GPU is seated right? I mean anytime you call tech support on a computer they ask you to make sure PCI and AGP cards are secure. I mean it's worth trying. But I can't think of anything other than a hardware problem that would cause something like that.
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post #3 of 7
12/2/03 at 9:19pm
My Nvidia does this if it'c clocked too high, a reboot will clear it up but it starts again after a bit.
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post #4 of 7
12/2/03 at 11:47pm
Same thing happens to me if I play for an hour or so. It looks like the screen loses it's vertical hold. For me the it starts off with the game slowing down and getiing jumpy, then the quality of the picture drops, then the verticle hold gets all wacky finally the screen goes completey white and blanks out, a few seconds later everything goes back to normal and a few minute later it all starts over again. I am sure it's an overheating problem I just don't know how to fix it. I have already replaced the graphics card and still the issue persists. I heard the older version had the same problem perhaps a laptop cooling unit would solve the issue.
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post #5 of 7
12/3/03 at 1:00am

OC'ing or not?

Your box blue's after 1 hour of gaming and you are not OC'ing the vid card? -- I'd say this is a show stopper - what does AW have to say about it?

Note - not an issue wiht my AW's - hours with BF42 - no problems as described.
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post #6 of 7
12/3/03 at 2:07pm
Like I said they sent me a new one and the same thing is happening what res are you running at. I have to admit I am running it at the highest res and all the bells and whisles on

What does OC'ing mean I am not familiar with this abv.
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post #7 of 7
12/3/03 at 2:50pm
OC'ing means Overclocking

BradC
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