ECS G732 Notebook and some 3d Graphics Issues

[DrHibbert]

My friend has an ECS G37 Notebook with the following (Relevant) specs:
P4 2.6 Ghz
512 MB DDR Ram
ATI Mobile Radeon 9000 (64 MB)
Windows XP Pro
ATI Mobile Driver 6.13.10.6280 (Latest Release from ECS)
Direct X 9.0b

When my friend plays Halo (which may not be 100% designed for a Laptop computer but the system specs more than meet the system requirements for the
game), the game quite often will freeze/lock up the system. Now the laptop does get warm and we cant find a spot in the bios where we can check the
temp but I doubt it is the system temp since it seems to randomly do this, it can freeze during the first minute or it will wait and freeze after 2
hours of game play. Halo is patched and is up to date, the system is all up to date, and the only thing that isn't is the ATI drivers and since the
mobile drivers can't be downloaded directly from ATI and ECS seems to be 6 months behind in their drivers. Does anyone have any ideas on a possible
fix and if it is the ATI drivers, is there another way to get the latest ATI drivers for his laptop?? Thanks

DrHibbert

 

[Somebody]

My friend has an ECS G37 Notebook with the following (Relevant) specs:
P4 2.6 Ghz
512 MB DDR Ram
ATI Mobile Radeon 9000 (64 MB)
Windows XP Pro
ATI Mobile Driver 6.13.10.6280 (Latest Release from ECS)
Direct X 9.0b

When my friend plays Halo (which may not be 100% designed for a Laptop

computer but the system specs more than meet the system requirements for the

game), the game quite often will freeze/lock up the system. Now the

laptop does get warm and we cant find a spot in the bios where we can check
the

temp but I doubt it is the system temp since it seems to randomly do this,

it can freeze during the first minute or it will wait and freeze after 2

hours of game play. Halo is patched and is up to date, the system is all

up to date, and the only thing that isn't is the ATI drivers and since the

mobile drivers can't be downloaded directly from ATI and ECS seems to be 6

months behind in their drivers. Does anyone have any ideas on a possible

fix and if it is the ATI drivers, is there another way to get the latest

ATI drivers for his laptop?? Thanks

I run a mobile Radeon 9800 but it's from Dell, I have updated the drivers
but it worked fine out of the box also.

Counterintuitively, you might want to try a few micro-revisions *older* if
you can't get an up to date one, sometimes you can get past the bug that is
causing the issue. ATI hardware has always been excellent. ATI drivers
have always stunk.

Also spend some time tweaking the performance and compatability settings for
your card, I was able to get some really strange problems to crop up in mine
when I was experimenting with mine in search of FPS, though the defaults
have always been fine.

If you're thinking temperature, enable the power saving features on the
card/bios/windows, and run on battery on a power saving scheme. The low
power mode should also run cooler, allowing you to seei if that makes a
difference or not.

HTH

-Russ.

 

[Asestar]

It's easy! Try the latest Catalyst 4.1 drivers. I know you have m9000 card,
ati drivers won't install. Try this utility called "mobility modder" from
http://www.driverheaven.net/patje/ .

Just pray that your m9000 is not very modified from standard ati radeon 9000
design.
i have also m9000 64mb, in 2,53GHz, 533Mhz fsb, 512Gb ram in Amilo-D8820
laptop from Fujitsu-Siemens, and i use standard Ati cat4.1 drivers. My
friend on a Dell with mobility radeon 7500 can also use ati drivers, but
another with SonyVIAO laptop, mobility 7500 can't! he must use sony stuff,
about 7-8 month old.

My friend has an ECS G37 Notebook with the following (Relevant) specs:
P4 2.6 Ghz
512 MB DDR Ram
ATI Mobile Radeon 9000 (64 MB)
Windows XP Pro
ATI Mobile Driver 6.13.10.6280 (Latest Release from ECS)
Direct X 9.0b

When my friend plays Halo (which may not be 100% designed for a Laptop

computer but the system specs more than meet the system requirements for the

game), the game quite often will freeze/lock up the system. Now the

laptop does get warm and we cant find a spot in the bios where we can check
the

temp but I doubt it is the system temp since it seems to randomly do this,

it can freeze during the first minute or it will wait and freeze after 2

hours of game play. Halo is patched and is up to date, the system is all

up to date, and the only thing that isn't is the ATI drivers and since the

mobile drivers can't be downloaded directly from ATI and ECS seems to be 6

months behind in their drivers. Does anyone have any ideas on a possible

fix and if it is the ATI drivers, is there another way to get the latest

ATI drivers for his laptop?? Thanks

 

[Steve]

It's easy! Try the latest Catalyst 4.1 drivers. I know you have m9000 card,
ati drivers won't install. Try this utility called "mobility modder" from
http://www.driverheaven.net/patje/ .

Just pray that your m9000 is not very modified from standard ati radeon 9000
design.
i have also m9000 64mb, in 2,53GHz, 533Mhz fsb, 512Gb ram in Amilo-D8820
laptop from Fujitsu-Siemens, and i use standard Ati cat4.1 drivers. My
friend on a Dell with mobility radeon 7500 can also use ati drivers, but
another with SonyVIAO laptop, mobility 7500 can't! he must use sony stuff,
about 7-8 month old.

You can also try the omega drivers, they are based the Catalyst drivers but
don't need to be modified for your m9000. I have the n3010 from fujitsu and
have had great success with both catalyst and omega divers. good luck!
http://www.omegacorner.com/

 

[float]

same here!!

but I found the freeze is mission based, my G732 always freeze on that
mission where u have a sniper rifle from the start.

I also found if you run it in safemode it won't freeze.

IMO, the G732 has a very poor build, and it would discourage anyone and
everyone from getting one.

- It runs too hot
- The fan is too loud
- The exhaust gets too must dust cuz it's facing up
- The legs snaps off so easily
- The silver rubs off
- PCMCIA eject button gets stuck so easily
- If you run something, say media player, and close the lid, the notebook
switches off after awhile even though you have 'never switch
off/hibernate/standby' in power management.
- If you put the notebook into Standby mode, then unplug the notebook's
power source, the notebook will NEVER go into hibernation, and will
eventually run out of battery.

etc, etc.

Got my notebook replaced twice, still the same problems

My friend has an ECS G37 Notebook with the following (Relevant) specs:
P4 2.6 Ghz
512 MB DDR Ram
ATI Mobile Radeon 9000 (64 MB)
Windows XP Pro
ATI Mobile Driver 6.13.10.6280 (Latest Release from ECS)
Direct X 9.0b

When my friend plays Halo (which may not be 100% designed for a Laptop

computer but the system specs more than meet the system requirements for the

game), the game quite often will freeze/lock up the system. Now the

laptop does get warm and we cant find a spot in the bios where we can check
the

temp but I doubt it is the system temp since it seems to randomly do this,

it can freeze during the first minute or it will wait and freeze after 2

hours of game play. Halo is patched and is up to date, the system is all

up to date, and the only thing that isn't is the ATI drivers and since the

mobile drivers can't be downloaded directly from ATI and ECS seems to be 6

months behind in their drivers. Does anyone have any ideas on a possible

fix and if it is the ATI drivers, is there another way to get the latest

ATI drivers for his laptop?? Thanks

 

[Darthy]

My friend has an ECS G37 Notebook with the following (Relevant) specs:
P4 2.6 Ghz
512 MB DDR Ram
ATI Mobile Radeon 9000 (64 MB)
Windows XP Pro
ATI Mobile Driver 6.13.10.6280 (Latest Release from ECS)
Direct X 9.0b

When my friend plays Halo (which may not be 100% designed for a Laptop computer but the system specs more than meet the system requirements for the
game), the game quite often will freeze/lock up the system. Now the laptop does get warm and we cant find a spot in the bios where we can check the
temp but I doubt it is the system temp since it seems to randomly do this, it can freeze during the first minute or it will wait and freeze after 2
hours of game play. Halo is patched and is up to date, the system is all up to date, and the only thing that isn't is the ATI drivers and since the
mobile drivers can't be downloaded directly from ATI and ECS seems to be 6 months behind in their drivers. Does anyone have any ideas on a possible
fix and if it is the ATI drivers, is there another way to get the latest ATI drivers for his laptop?? Thanks

AIDA32 - from www.aida32.hu - maybe able to tell you your temp and
everything about your computer. Its free. Look under
computer/sensors/CPU

 

[Asestar]

My friend has an ECS G37 Notebook with the following (Relevant) specs:laptop does get warm and we cant find a spot in the bios where we can check
thethis, it can freeze during the first minute or it will wait and freeze after
2ATI drivers for his laptop?? Thanks


Try the newest cat4.xx drivers from Omega! They install nicely on laptops.
Also a program called "CPU Eat n Cool" it cools your cpu while running (you
can select how much it cools).