My notebook is 11 months old. From about the 3 month mark, I'd get a sudden shutdown occasionally. At first, it was a once a month type of thing. Now it happens almost constantly if I try to play any games. It happens from the desktop with a browser open as well, though not as often. Right before it happens, the CAPS LOCK, NUM LOCK, and SCROLL LOCK lights will flash repeatedly. Then the computer just does a hard shut down.
I have cleaned the vent grills for the fans, tested out my memory using Memtest+, and installed the latest drivers for this model from the sagernotebooks.com site. I've been monitoring the CPU temp with Speedfan, so I know my CPU temps have been around 40C or lower when the problems occer. I can't find any utilities to let me monitor the GPU temps. But I do know that neither the exhaust temp, nor the front left corner of the notebook, are hot
Searches on the internet suggest it's a GPU problem, but I'm not really sure what I can do at this point to resolve this at this point.
Here are the specs for my machine:
Item Description Qty Unit Price Price
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124 Sager 9750-C Notebook: 9750-C 1 $2968.00
$2968.00
1518 Display: 17" WSXGA+ LCD (Glossy 1680
X 1050)
1308 Dead Pixel Policy: Standard Dead
Pixel Policy
1521 Processor: AMD A64 X2 4400+
1459 Graphics Card: nVIDIA GeForce Go 7800
GTX w/GDDR3 18sd
1361 RAM: 1024MB 400DDR (1-1024MB)
1476 Primary Hard Drive: 60GB 7200RPM SATA
1495 Secondary Hard Drive: 60GB 7200RPM
SATA
539 Bay 1 Media Drive: 8X DVD/24X10X24
CDRW Combo Drive
1010 Modem: 56K RJ11 Phone Modem
853 Network Card: 10/100/1000 NIC
352 Operating System: Windows XP Home
(+SP2 CD)
846 Raid: Hardware Raid 0 configured with
OS pre-install
1381 Wireless Network: Internal 802.11g
wireless
1314 Office Software: None
356 Warranty: 1 year warranty, lifetime
tech support
1355 Extended Warranty(US only): Please
click the "?" for warranty details
1355 Accidental Warranty(US only): Please
click the "?" for warranty details
I have cleaned the vent grills for the fans, tested out my memory using Memtest+, and installed the latest drivers for this model from the sagernotebooks.com site. I've been monitoring the CPU temp with Speedfan, so I know my CPU temps have been around 40C or lower when the problems occer. I can't find any utilities to let me monitor the GPU temps. But I do know that neither the exhaust temp, nor the front left corner of the notebook, are hot
Searches on the internet suggest it's a GPU problem, but I'm not really sure what I can do at this point to resolve this at this point.
Here are the specs for my machine:
Item Description Qty Unit Price Price
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
124 Sager 9750-C Notebook: 9750-C 1 $2968.00
$2968.00
1518 Display: 17" WSXGA+ LCD (Glossy 1680
X 1050)
1308 Dead Pixel Policy: Standard Dead
Pixel Policy
1521 Processor: AMD A64 X2 4400+
1459 Graphics Card: nVIDIA GeForce Go 7800
GTX w/GDDR3 18sd
1361 RAM: 1024MB 400DDR (1-1024MB)
1476 Primary Hard Drive: 60GB 7200RPM SATA
1495 Secondary Hard Drive: 60GB 7200RPM
SATA
539 Bay 1 Media Drive: 8X DVD/24X10X24
CDRW Combo Drive
1010 Modem: 56K RJ11 Phone Modem
853 Network Card: 10/100/1000 NIC
352 Operating System: Windows XP Home
(+SP2 CD)
846 Raid: Hardware Raid 0 configured with
OS pre-install
1381 Wireless Network: Internal 802.11g
wireless
1314 Office Software: None
356 Warranty: 1 year warranty, lifetime
tech support
1355 Extended Warranty(US only): Please
click the "?" for warranty details
1355 Accidental Warranty(US only): Please
click the "?" for warranty details
