and i dont think its the starter or transmission. i think this is a firmware problem because it happens while playing some games and also on a fresh, cool start when i hit fn+f10, you know the story...... fans go to full and then automatic shutdown within a minute or something.
i know that some people are describing this problem happening with way more frequency than my current problem. i first noticed it while playing halflife2 and then with mechcommander2. so far these are the only games i have played since this began.
now i will be traveling to antarctica next sunday to start my next winter contract, so you can be assured that i will get to the bottom of this wnderful new quirk i have been fortunate enough to experience and have already begun the process with sager tech support. so after a qeury from sager asking me to describe in detail the problem, a techie sent me an email with three files and instructed me to copy them to cd and boot my laptop with it. first of all my hotmail account denied these files from being downloaded because of security reasons. second, i am wary of downloading any type of "flash" update without further explanation and clarification of these updates........ is this a real fix or a real new pain in the ass? my experience so far hasnt been all that bad, only a few shutdowns and sometimes no problem whatsoever.... not so bad really. and this problem has only occured at high altitude while traveling in montana at 7,000 feet. i have been unable to test my machine properly since getting back to home base, except for a couple nights in hotels in north dakota and minnesota, no problems there.
i always prop the beast from behind with a good book, preferably tolkien, card or feist and pay special attention to the temps which are, according to mobilemeter........47 to 52 degrees celcius at idle and up to 68 max while gaming, seemingly with any game,( halflife2, mechcommander2, moh pacific assault, starwars battlefront, cnc generals, x-plane8, simcity4, sims2, etc.).
so send me your downtrodden, your suggestions,( i cant rma for nine months), questions, dirty pictures or anything you think might help all of us resolve this one issue until the next one surfaces and i will do my best to figure this out for all those users whos machines have been rendered useless by this.
i know that some people are describing this problem happening with way more frequency than my current problem. i first noticed it while playing halflife2 and then with mechcommander2. so far these are the only games i have played since this began.
now i will be traveling to antarctica next sunday to start my next winter contract, so you can be assured that i will get to the bottom of this wnderful new quirk i have been fortunate enough to experience and have already begun the process with sager tech support. so after a qeury from sager asking me to describe in detail the problem, a techie sent me an email with three files and instructed me to copy them to cd and boot my laptop with it. first of all my hotmail account denied these files from being downloaded because of security reasons. second, i am wary of downloading any type of "flash" update without further explanation and clarification of these updates........ is this a real fix or a real new pain in the ass? my experience so far hasnt been all that bad, only a few shutdowns and sometimes no problem whatsoever.... not so bad really. and this problem has only occured at high altitude while traveling in montana at 7,000 feet. i have been unable to test my machine properly since getting back to home base, except for a couple nights in hotels in north dakota and minnesota, no problems there.
i always prop the beast from behind with a good book, preferably tolkien, card or feist and pay special attention to the temps which are, according to mobilemeter........47 to 52 degrees celcius at idle and up to 68 max while gaming, seemingly with any game,( halflife2, mechcommander2, moh pacific assault, starwars battlefront, cnc generals, x-plane8, simcity4, sims2, etc.).
so send me your downtrodden, your suggestions,( i cant rma for nine months), questions, dirty pictures or anything you think might help all of us resolve this one issue until the next one surfaces and i will do my best to figure this out for all those users whos machines have been rendered useless by this.
