a while back i switched from 64-bit to 32-bit due to one thing: over-heating!
when i had 64-bit, my laptop overheated and kept on shutting its self down, even after watching a 10-minute Internet video.
i searched everywhere to figure out wtf is wrong with my laptop. first i thought i had faulty hardware, installed windows 7 32-bit on another volume and it never overheated, not even after playing gta iv for 3 hours (dident even get hot) but in 64-bit it takes less than 5 minutes for gta iv to over-heat my computer, wtf is up with that?
then i thought it was drivers - went on amds site and downloaded every driver: graphics card, cpu exc.
no luck!
so i finally switched to 32-bit..but see, gta iv runs even worse.
64-bit: 30-35 fps
32-bit: around 20-25fps
my specs:
amd athlon 64 x2 dual-core processor @ 2.0ghz
ati radeon 3100 hd 256mb dedicated/ 1.2gb shared
3gb sdram @ 800mhz (but in bios i took off 1gb shared ram so then i had 4gb of ram on windows 7 as 526mb is enough!!!)
320gb hard drive
also, i bought a cooling pad thinking that would help. still overheated, but got an extra few minutes watching Internet.
I'm getting since upgrading my laptop from Vista to 7. Laptop has allways been faultless before the OS upgrade (clean install). After the upgrade yes it runs quicker but it overheats and shuts down. -The laptop is getting hotter than usual and depending on CPU demand will just shut down, the only warning being the fan speed increasing just before it dies. I have tried the following;
1. Cleaned out the fan and air dusted all under the cover. -even tried freezer spray to the bottom cover!
2. restored all the drivers I had backed up before the instal.
3. checked the latency on the system (the computer is mainly used for Music) APCI.sys sits high on the demand list and its latency increases as CPU heats. -Not sure if this is the problem, can find no reliable info as to if I can stop it running (not listed in the services
4. removed battery and ran the laptop. -still shuts down and runs red hot!
5. checked the Acer website for driver. It only has drivers listed for Vista and XP (not tried these as yet).
Was thinking of updating all drivers to latest using a driver update program, had allready done the CPU update but to be honest I have had problems before with the updated drivers causing more problems than they solve on other PC's.
Seems to be a lot about Win 7 causing overheat problems
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I am looking at buying a Re-furbed IBM T42 lappy with P4m 1.7, 1 gig of ram and 40 gb (I know...its small) hdd to generally play around with and to run some Powerpoint Presentations for customer when I need to.
It comes with XP SP3 but I am so hooked on Win 7 that would be my preference....
It should install without too many dramas but I was hoping someone out there might have some experience with similar spec machines regarding drivers etc.
I was going to go for a 10 inch netbook but at A$280 for the IBM and I know where they came from initially it is hard to justify A$650 plus for a smaller rig.
I currently have integrated graphics in my laptop, is there anyway to improve this? Possibly by adding a proper graphics card, does my laptop have a spare PCI- (E) slot or not??? My laptop is a Packard Bell Easynote LJ71, the 1TB HDD version.
I let microsoft windows 7 update my MSI lpatopn last night and now today I cannot get it to boot up past the "MSI" logo screen. I received "Error Code: C0000022 applying update operation 595 of 71143 (bfsvc.exe).
My dell studio laptop is not working. When i switch it on it is booting properly then it asks for the password when i enter the password it accepts dat also.. but then it shows me a black screen with a cursor on it... my task manager is working even command prompt is working properly.. the thing i noticed was for the last time when i turned my laptop off... its cpu usage (processing) was 100 % i don't know how that happend so i turned my lappy off for 2 hours and it is not working..
I am using a Laptop with a dead screen by running an external monitor from vga port. I am trying to duplicate this monitor on Sony HD tv using an USB adapter to HDMI. On the first go around I got my desktop ...minus any task bars or icons. on the Sony plus sound but could not get the complete desktop to display. (I am thinking now this might have been resolution trouble and my icons were just out sight) Videos play fine on vga monitor but see just windows logo on Sony.
When I go to display settings I see "1/2 multimonitors" and it shows the Sony as 3. That is when I get lost. If I click on identify it shows a giant " 1" and "2" on my vga monitor. at the same time. Then my choices are duplicate, extend, and show desktop. Which should I use.? I am not sure if my vga monitor is 1 or 2.
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It seems to work great on safe mode.. but when I boot it up normally, it works great for the first 4 minutes and then after that it just completely freezes, no mouse movement or anything. Things Ive tried: Virus scan - clean chkdsk c: /f - didint help solve problem Closed some start up programs - didnt work either
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i m having problem with my lapy since last 4-5 days.. i am unable to shut down my lapy..when i shut it down it takes too long to shut down & it shows shutting down screen....
When I turn on my computer I get the black screen and all it says is A disk read error occurred Press CTRL+Alt+Del to restart It just constantly will loop thro this sequence, what do I do to fix this (really I just want to backup my primary partition so I do not loose any data)?
EDIT --- I just tried to run a Linux Live CD and mount my Windows partition but Linux is unable to mount the Windows partition, it errors everytime.
EDIT # 2 ---Used a Win 7 install cd and chose the repair option...problems with this route is 1) The partition isn't even recognized this way, I also went into the command prompt and tried to run chkdsk (no errors reported), and fix MBR and after this still unable to boot the PC.
