I've had my Sager for a little over a year now.
Symptoms:
-Video card fan does not activate, even with fn+ f2 feature
-Snowy screen in variety of different patterns. (checkerdish, lines vertical and horizontal)
-Screen turns off after logging in, sometimes before that.
If I start my computer cold I can get pass the log in screen, after that I believe the video card gets too hot and starts displaying distorted pattern images, eventually the computer shuts the screen off. The fn + f2 button kicks the other fans on except for the video card fan, so I tested the video card fan separatly and it works. Other posts say that when it starts displaying snowy patterns it is damaged permanently and must be replaced. However, whenever I start it cold the snowy pattern is gone and If I do replace the graphics card it will only overheat again because the fan still does not kcik on. Is there an advance BIOS setting I can access that gives me more settings to play around with. I think the key here is to get that fan or maybe the fan sensor to work.
-How do I get the video card fan to work?
-Is it BIOS related? If it is the BIOS, it only allows me to set the fan to contious or automatics.
-How do I access the advance BIOS feature?
-Can someone please point me in a direction here or a post, my searches have turned up nothing except for to replace my card, and sticking an external fan to my video card.
Symptoms:
-Video card fan does not activate, even with fn+ f2 feature
-Snowy screen in variety of different patterns. (checkerdish, lines vertical and horizontal)
-Screen turns off after logging in, sometimes before that.
If I start my computer cold I can get pass the log in screen, after that I believe the video card gets too hot and starts displaying distorted pattern images, eventually the computer shuts the screen off. The fn + f2 button kicks the other fans on except for the video card fan, so I tested the video card fan separatly and it works. Other posts say that when it starts displaying snowy patterns it is damaged permanently and must be replaced. However, whenever I start it cold the snowy pattern is gone and If I do replace the graphics card it will only overheat again because the fan still does not kcik on. Is there an advance BIOS setting I can access that gives me more settings to play around with. I think the key here is to get that fan or maybe the fan sensor to work.
-How do I get the video card fan to work?
-Is it BIOS related? If it is the BIOS, it only allows me to set the fan to contious or automatics.
-How do I access the advance BIOS feature?
-Can someone please point me in a direction here or a post, my searches have turned up nothing except for to replace my card, and sticking an external fan to my video card.
