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post #1 of 6
10/8/05 at 1:13am
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I was playing Unreal Tournament 2004 on it this evening, when the game froze up. The game was being run in 1680x1500; the normal resolution I played in. The game locked up and I had to shutdown the machine via the power button. I booted it back up, and to my horror, a 'rainbow' is on the right side of my screen that will not go away and the bottom two inches of my screen directly reflect whatever I'm doing up top. This 'bar' seems to start with the computer, meaning it's not a Windows problem; it's a severe hardware problem.

The only things I tried doing was to restart UT2004, hope it came back up in fullscreen like normal and shut it down, but UT2004 wouldn't boot correctly and got stuck at the splash screen. I've also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the video care drivers, but to no avail.











I am thinking of RMA'ing it, but I have college software that I need on a weekly basis.

I'm giving it until this weekend before I ****ing snap.
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post #2 of 6
10/8/05 at 1:20am
RMA it
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post #3 of 6
10/8/05 at 11:54am
Yup that shot of it doing the same in the BIOS is the deciding factor for me. As Gary said RMA it.
Bill
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post #4 of 6
10/8/05 at 8:59pm
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Damnest thing....

I started it tonight to work on 2 weeks worth of college homework, and WTF?, it works like nothing happened.

Now I'm totally confused.
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post #5 of 6
10/8/05 at 9:51pm
Sounds like possibly failing hardware, IMO (but hey- I'm not a tech expert). Maybe UT overheated your GPU and knocked it a bit wonky. After cooling down it's better?

Regardless, I'd be contacting Sager immediately and making sure you've got backup plans for when you're going to be sending it in, not if. If it's hardware, how long will it be until it's stressed again to the point of finally giving the heave-ho? Back it all up (don't put yourself in my situation). Like I said, I'm not a tech expert, but I'd think if it's a GPU hardware problem, there's a possibility the whole thing might go and you wouldn't have a display at all. Just trying to throw out possible ideas so you can be prepared for eventualities. Could be fine from here on out, but I wouldn't count on it.
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post #6 of 6
10/10/05 at 12:41am
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opened up UT2004 today and scaled it back to a lower res and in windowed mode.

Oddly enough, it booted much faster also..

I suppose I realized it's limits, so I'll NOT be pushing them anymore.
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