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8790 freezing when playing games

post #1 of 10
2/9/05 at 2:30pm
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Hey,

I have been having issues with my 8790 ever since I received the laptop when I play high performance games such as Tiger Woods 2005, Fifa 2005, NBA Live 2005 etc.... After several minutes or even an hour or two, the games freeze on me.

I have my laptop elevated in the back about 1 1/2 in. and in the front 1 in.

The fans are on full blast.

I even put on mobility meter to see how hot things are getting and 63 is the highest I've noticed it at when I play. Obviously I dont' know what temp it is when the game freezes.

I have the newest omega drivers for the ATI mobility 9700. I just don't understand why the laptop freezes...

Does anyone know of anything? Whether it is heat related or something else?
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post #2 of 10
2/9/05 at 3:42pm
I was getting a blue screen/auto restart once in a while with new omega drivers. Switched back to version 2544 and did not have a problem since.
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post #3 of 10
2/10/05 at 3:07pm
I suggest going back to the m11_804's if your having issues then it will keep doing it or not play video/media correctly for ya.
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post #4 of 10
2/10/05 at 7:26pm
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I had the same issues with the other video drivers....

Could this be a problem other than the video drivers? Like heat? What temps are too high?
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post #5 of 10
2/11/05 at 11:33am
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Originally Posted by dduewel
I had the same issues with the other video drivers....

Could this be a problem other than the video drivers? Like heat? What temps are too high?
Which drivers the m11_804's? Do you have the latest bios? Also have you ever loaded any of teh cat drivers? If so you need to clean out the drivers using driver cleaner 3.3 and re-install. I had the same issue till I did that. I found that the omega and cat drivers really do not function well with mozt laptop setups. Some people get lucky and don't have certain things loaded so they run well for them. I found the M11_804's run just as well and are playable with any game.
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post #6 of 10
2/13/05 at 3:16pm
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I never tried using driver cleaner when changing drivers.... maybe thatis an issue. I'll revert back t othe m11_804s and I hope that it works out well. I do have the lastest bios as well.

Thanks for the help! We'll see how this works out.
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post #7 of 10
2/17/05 at 10:43pm
I found my 8790 doing that when I played LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth and Unreal 2004. I thought at first it was my computer overheating, but I realized that instead I could be running out of free harddrive space for the page file. To test my theory, I filled my main harddrive until I had 1gig free and LOTR froze about 3 minutes into "actual" gameplay. After freeing up the harddrive to about 10gig free, it worked flawlessly for the next several hours. I don't know if this will help, but you might want to make sure you have plenty of free space, especially if you don't have a lot of extra ram installed.

Tyler



specs:
8790, 3.6 Northwood Core, 2 gig ram, 60gig 7200 hd, 80gig 5400 hd.
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post #8 of 10
2/28/05 at 7:32pm
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Well.... I have reverted to the original drivers and still am having the same freezing problems. I have plenty of space free (20 gig) and I have 1 gig of ram.

I am actually going to send it in into sager and see if they can do something. Someone said they had the same problems and sager replaced the motherboard. We'll see how this turns out.
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post #9 of 10
3/13/05 at 8:57pm
I had the same freezing issue from day 1.

I went with the Omega drivers from here http://www.omegadrivers.net/

I have had no issues at all now with everything maxed.

I do not have any bios updates.

I have all win XP updates.

I uninstalled all other video drivers first.

I did not have to do anything else with sound or page files or anything.
It wasn't a heat issue as I can play with it all on its own flat on a table for hours and not 1 freeze yet. If heat was an issue it would still happen after a full day of playing Call of Duty.

I don't now why I got lucky but I guess I have the right combo.
Hope somehow this helps.
Mainly try uninstalling the drivers first.

One thing just in case it matters. I installed the win 9x/me drivers by mistake. then unintalled them and went to the xp drivers.(all Omega)
I can't imagine this makes a difference but who knows.

System
Sager 8790
Win XP SP2 all updates.
P4 3.4G
1G RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 256MB DDR
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post #10 of 10
3/17/05 at 5:07pm
I found something else causing blue screen/restart problem. Mobilemeter is the problem, i will get a blue screen within a few hours of opening mobilemeter. To avoid the problem i need to restart the computer after shutting down mobilemeter(shutting down mobilemeter alone is not enough).
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