Hey all, I bought a fairly decent laptop recently (2 months~)
and because i recently finished school i started using it for recreation like playing games and watching movies etc. The problem is that whenever i do any of these the laptop will freeze completely after 5 or so minutes playing. This happens when i watch movies or TV series from a DVD or play any game (this even occurred when i play Chess which came with Vista)
I wasn't sure where to post this so sorry if its in the wrong forum.
Specs for this laptop are:
Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00Ghz
2GB DDR2 Memory (Im assuming)
Video card is an nVidia, not sure if its in built but it runs Fable pretty well so i dont think its crappy.
Sylenas 0 Newbie Poster
Rik_ 111 Nearly a Posting Maven
Graphics can only be built in on a majority of laptops.
Run dxdiag on it.
Click on the Start orb and type "dxdiag" in Start Search. Hit return and
off you go.
Have a look for any problems.
Sylenas 0 Newbie Poster
Wow i totally forgot about dxdiag *fail*
Yeah my GPU is
GeForce8200M G
Approx. Total Memory is 883 MB
Rik_ 111 Nearly a Posting Maven
Run all the graphical tests and report any errors here.
Sylenas 0 Newbie Poster
Hey, what do you mean by graphical test, is it a website or something on vista?
Rik_ 111 Nearly a Posting Maven
http://media.photobucket.com/image/dxdiag%20in%20vista/pwtechsupport/dxdiag.jpg
The button that says "Test Direct 3D".
Sylenas 0 Newbie Poster
I hate Vista so, so much. If i had a spare copy of XP lying around i would say goodbye forever. There is no Test button on any of the pages of the Diagnostic tool basically
reganstar 0 Junior Poster in Training
I had have same problem some time ago...Reinstall windows.
Sylenas 0 Newbie Poster
I would but.. it kinda came preinstalled with vista and they didnt give me a disk.
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