I have a laptop that was built by a now defunct UK company named Savrow (it's a Blade B75). Its spec is:
Clevo M570A chassis
Pentium M 2GHz cpu
2Gb RAM
NVidia GeForce 7800 GTX Go graphics
Recently the system has started to beep repeatedly when playing games (not immediately but after anything from 10 to 15 minutes) and both the Numlock and Caps lock indicators flash at the same time. The cooling fan(s) speed up and the air from the exhaust at the back right is pretty warm. Exiting the game seems to resolve the problem. In normal usage (surfing etc) the system can run for some time and not exhibit any problem.
My theory is that this is caused by the graphics card overheating.
I'm trying out a Zalman NC1000 notebook cooler to see if that helps although the initial findings are that it doesn't seem to make much difference - need to try it a bit more yet though.
Questions I have are:
can anyone recommend a hardware monitoring program I can use to confirm my hypothesis that it is caused by VGA card overheating? (I have tried a program named HMonitor but it locks the system as soon as I try to run it)
is persisting with the problem likely to cause long term damage to the system?
any other ideas about what could be the problem?
If it is the VGA card I believe it is a PCI-E card so could be replaced...?
Thanks...
Clevo M570A chassis
Pentium M 2GHz cpu
2Gb RAM
NVidia GeForce 7800 GTX Go graphics
Recently the system has started to beep repeatedly when playing games (not immediately but after anything from 10 to 15 minutes) and both the Numlock and Caps lock indicators flash at the same time. The cooling fan(s) speed up and the air from the exhaust at the back right is pretty warm. Exiting the game seems to resolve the problem. In normal usage (surfing etc) the system can run for some time and not exhibit any problem.
My theory is that this is caused by the graphics card overheating.
I'm trying out a Zalman NC1000 notebook cooler to see if that helps although the initial findings are that it doesn't seem to make much difference - need to try it a bit more yet though.
Questions I have are:
can anyone recommend a hardware monitoring program I can use to confirm my hypothesis that it is caused by VGA card overheating? (I have tried a program named HMonitor but it locks the system as soon as I try to run it)
is persisting with the problem likely to cause long term damage to the system?
any other ideas about what could be the problem?
If it is the VGA card I believe it is a PCI-E card so could be replaced...?
Thanks...
