Display Artifacts

this is happening to me as well, did you ever figure out how to fix this ?

You need to print these screens and send the laptop back to your manufacturers. It could be drivers, it could be heat, but I reckon sometimes the video card doesnt function properly and these errors happen and they gradually happen in some games, but then get worse and happen in all games aswell as in windows. So send it back and get it replaced now before it gets any worse.

Hi,

I have a Sager NP 5670 (P4 2.4 GHz, 512 DDR, ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 with ATI drivers (ver 6.14.10.6351 5/15/2003) and am experiencing similar display artifacts. I am able to sometimes resolve the problem by going into the troubleshoot tab and reducing the hardware acceleration one setting left of full acceleration.

If you do determine what is what is going on, please let me know by emailing me at: private_1000@hotmail.com.

Thanks,


Private

My 5670 does the same thing...
Its done it a few times when under warranty. Both times Sager had put a new motherboard into it. Now, it is out of warranty and I hardly feel it is worth putting a third motherboard into this thing.

Sometimes for me though, the system will not even POST after the screen does that. It'll usually lock up.

Ive taken this thing completely apart and let me say it was a whole mess of parts. It has long since been out of warranty, and I do not play on dealing with Sager to fix it. The fix would be a new motherboard and I can't justify the costs over getting a new non-clevo based notebook later this year.

I am suspecting though, that it is a flaw in the casing design - It started again for me when I was laughing and hitting the table about 6" away from it. The screen went crazy, it locked up and has done it ever since. There is a piece of plastic that sticks down like a pin over the heat plate that rests over the video chip. I am thinking that the bumping made that plastic hit the plate which caused the video chip to become... well... fubar. When I no longer rely on this notebook for entertainment at work (or it becomes fully dead, where it will never POST again), ill take pictures of exactly where this pin is to explain what I mean.

Sometimes when it does it, I can unplug the LCD from the motherboard. It is a rectangle shaped deal under the keyboard sort of near the upper left. If I plug it back in or apply pressure to it, the screen will return to normal, but the machine will still be locked up...

All of this may or may not be the same problem... but my screen when it flakes out looks exactly like the screen shots you posted.