Hey Gang,
Sorry I’ve taken so long to get back with the scores but there is a reason. My system has had a major melt down.
Here’s the lowdown. While running F.E.A.R. Benchie I notice a couple areas during the test where “Artifacting” showed up. It was real brief so I didn’t think anything of it. After installing the new turion driver I was running 3dmark05 and I notice more artifacting during the first test right where they show all the soldiers lining up getting ready to fire. In that scene the camera pans to the left. When the camera is all the way to the left then BAM! That’s when the artifacting kicks in. Triangles all over the screen not just the top half or bottom half but all over. It looks like shards of broken glass everywhere. I took some pics of it and I will post them below.
So during the test where all the soldiers are firing and the big tank tips over is where all the artifacting happens. When you go to the next test, the firefly more artifacting happens but not as much as in the first test. The artifacts in the firefly scene consist of Long sticks all over the screen.
Then the next test the one with the flying blimp ship, runs flawlessly. 35 to 50fps looks beautiful. Then the remainder of the tests are uneventful I think those are the cpu tests cause they run at 1 to 2 fps real slow but no artifacting.
So of course I’ve put in my many hours with aw tech support. It’s a good thing I had my external dvd usb drive with me, remember my optical drive is screwed up. So we tried respawn by making my external dvd drive the primary boot drive and respawn failed. We tried to run it in my internal dvd drive because it sometimes works with different disks. Some work and some don’t like fear does not run in the onboard dvd but I can run it fine with my external. But it also failed. So then we formatted the HD and ran the windows xp setup and loaded all the drivers manually. That did nothing. Same problem. They then had me go to nvidia website and download latest drivers and try to install them but that didn’t work cause you get the error msg that it can’t find any compatible hardware. I told him about the stuff I read about on notebook forums that you have to go to laptop video to go and download the nvidia drivers with the moded inf files, but he was clueless. So they gave me an RMA number and I have to send it back to Miami. This will be hard for me since I am currently on the road and won’t be home until the 31st. I will be traveling to a city on Monday that is a 2hour drive from my home. So I will rent a car and drive home, box it up take it to FedEx then drive back to the airport drop the car off and resume my trip. I know it’s a *itch but with the long wait times for repairs and shipping I need to get the ball rolling as fast as I can. I hope I can talk AW into a free upgrade or something because this is going to cost me some cash not to mention being a royal pain the ass. It’s a good thing I bought that HP 17inch backup lappy, just didn’t think I would have to fall back on it so fast.
I am suspecting overheating of the video cards or just something failing in the cards themselves. I asked if they use artic silver compound when they assembled it and they checked and said no. They just use the thermal pads unless it gets shipped back like mine and then they will apply the gel. Don’t know why they can’t just smear the stuff on in the first place since they can do it on a repair job and not void any warranties.
I went back later laptopvideotogo and downloaded various 80 series drivers with the moded inf files and loaded the successfully. However it didn't change anything.
Guess I have to hold out on the REVIEW since I do not have a working lappy yet.
So to sum things up my brand new mALX came with a broke dvd optical drive, bad respawn disks, and screwed up video cards.
This Sucks.
this is what FAR CRY looks like
Sorry I’ve taken so long to get back with the scores but there is a reason. My system has had a major melt down.
Here’s the lowdown. While running F.E.A.R. Benchie I notice a couple areas during the test where “Artifacting” showed up. It was real brief so I didn’t think anything of it. After installing the new turion driver I was running 3dmark05 and I notice more artifacting during the first test right where they show all the soldiers lining up getting ready to fire. In that scene the camera pans to the left. When the camera is all the way to the left then BAM! That’s when the artifacting kicks in. Triangles all over the screen not just the top half or bottom half but all over. It looks like shards of broken glass everywhere. I took some pics of it and I will post them below.
So during the test where all the soldiers are firing and the big tank tips over is where all the artifacting happens. When you go to the next test, the firefly more artifacting happens but not as much as in the first test. The artifacts in the firefly scene consist of Long sticks all over the screen.
Then the next test the one with the flying blimp ship, runs flawlessly. 35 to 50fps looks beautiful. Then the remainder of the tests are uneventful I think those are the cpu tests cause they run at 1 to 2 fps real slow but no artifacting.
So of course I’ve put in my many hours with aw tech support. It’s a good thing I had my external dvd usb drive with me, remember my optical drive is screwed up. So we tried respawn by making my external dvd drive the primary boot drive and respawn failed. We tried to run it in my internal dvd drive because it sometimes works with different disks. Some work and some don’t like fear does not run in the onboard dvd but I can run it fine with my external. But it also failed. So then we formatted the HD and ran the windows xp setup and loaded all the drivers manually. That did nothing. Same problem. They then had me go to nvidia website and download latest drivers and try to install them but that didn’t work cause you get the error msg that it can’t find any compatible hardware. I told him about the stuff I read about on notebook forums that you have to go to laptop video to go and download the nvidia drivers with the moded inf files, but he was clueless. So they gave me an RMA number and I have to send it back to Miami. This will be hard for me since I am currently on the road and won’t be home until the 31st. I will be traveling to a city on Monday that is a 2hour drive from my home. So I will rent a car and drive home, box it up take it to FedEx then drive back to the airport drop the car off and resume my trip. I know it’s a *itch but with the long wait times for repairs and shipping I need to get the ball rolling as fast as I can. I hope I can talk AW into a free upgrade or something because this is going to cost me some cash not to mention being a royal pain the ass. It’s a good thing I bought that HP 17inch backup lappy, just didn’t think I would have to fall back on it so fast.
I am suspecting overheating of the video cards or just something failing in the cards themselves. I asked if they use artic silver compound when they assembled it and they checked and said no. They just use the thermal pads unless it gets shipped back like mine and then they will apply the gel. Don’t know why they can’t just smear the stuff on in the first place since they can do it on a repair job and not void any warranties.
I went back later laptopvideotogo and downloaded various 80 series drivers with the moded inf files and loaded the successfully. However it didn't change anything.
Guess I have to hold out on the REVIEW since I do not have a working lappy yet.
So to sum things up my brand new mALX came with a broke dvd optical drive, bad respawn disks, and screwed up video cards.
This Sucks.
this is what FAR CRY looks like
i hope that wasnt the reason.
