I think the Omegas tweaked my video GPU

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Matt

So I've had this laptop for about 2 years. Problem is that the newest driver
for it on Fujitsu's website is dated 3-2003. So as you can imagine its way
behind. Ive tried to update the Mobility 9000 driver with the Cats from ATI but
I always get this "inf not found" error during the install. To my surprise the
Omega's installed without a hitch, that was three days ago. Last night while
gaming the screen tweaked. I rebooted and the problem was still there. Shut it
off for 10 minutes and it was fine. Thinking nothing about it I went back into
the game. Played for about 30 minutes and BAM, the tweak is back! So I just
shut it off and went to bed...

This morning, problem still there and now I notice some artifacts in the
computers BIOS POST screen....

I'm not pointing fingers, just wanted to share my experience with the group. I
can take a screenshot for those that want to see what its doing...


Matt

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6661 Stanford Ranch Road
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You are only suposed to use the manufacturers drivers for a lap top due to
resolution/refresh rate issues.

-Kent
 
You are only suposed to use the manufacturers drivers for a lap top due to
resolution/refresh rate issues.
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Yeah, thats kinda what I figured after the screen started to freak out. Well, I
guess Im screwed. Too bad.

I do remember seeing that the Omega's are for the Mobility GPU's as well as the
others during the install though. Maybe they work with some Mb's and not with
others.


Matt

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Follow up..

I just read somewhere that the Notebook I have will do this while playing a CPU
intensive game. It will actually fry the GPU so it turns out it had nothing to
do with the Omega's. Several people have had this problem so I know Im not by
myself.




Matt

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M and M Electronics
6661 Stanford Ranch Road
Suite F, PMB 105
Rocklin Ca 95677
916-275-5871
 
Follow up..

I just read somewhere that the Notebook I have will do this while playing a CPU
intensive game. It will actually fry the GPU so it turns out it had nothing to
do with the Omega's. Several people have had this problem so I know Im not by
myself.
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The idea of Omegas being at fault seemed to me (as a layman) to be
wrong. They are slightly modified drivers, not Area 51 alien
technology.
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Julian Richards
computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk

XP Home
L7S7A2 motherboard
Powercolor 9800 SE 8 pipelines 438/364 with Omega drivers
1 GB RAM
10 GB + 80 GB HDs
CD+DVD/CDRW drives
 
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Follow up..

I just read somewhere that the Notebook I have will do this while playing a CPU
intensive game. It will actually fry the GPU so it turns out it had nothing to
do with the Omega's. Several people have had this problem so I know Im not by
myself.
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Erk, which lappy do you have?

Where did you hear about this problem being common?

(the missus has a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D with Mobility 9000)


Mal
 
The idea of Omegas being at fault seemed to me (as a layman) to be
wrong. They are slightly modified drivers, not Area 51 alien
technology.
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The only reason I thought it was them was becasue I just installed the Omega's
a few days ago. Up until then I've been able to game away. I now know it wasnt
them.


Matt

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M and M Electronics
6661 Stanford Ranch Road
Suite F, PMB 105
Rocklin Ca 95677
916-275-5871
 
Erk, which lappy do you have?
Where did you hear about this problem being common?

(the missus has a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D with Mobility 9000)
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Its a Fujitsu N3010. I did some looking around the good ole' Internet and came
across a few others that the same thing happend to. In all cases that I found
it happened during gameplay.

I thnk it has everything to do with the crappy heatsink that Fujitsu put on the
GPU. The CPU heatsink and fan is more then enough but the GPU only has a piece
of 1/16" aluminum thats about 3 inches long with no fan AND it also makes
contact with the MoBo chipset so Im sure it gets hot. Oh, no fan on the GPU.

I have a call tag into Fujitsu. Needless to say. I will never use this machine
again for game playing.... :-(


Matt

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M and M Electronics
6661 Stanford Ranch Road
Suite F, PMB 105
Rocklin Ca 95677
916-275-5871
 
This morning, problem still there and now I notice some artifacts in the
computers BIOS POST screen..
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If it was heat related at first and now its doing it at bios post then it
sounds as though the heat damaged something.
You mentioned that your games were running fine with the original drivers so
what was your reason for trying the omegas?
 
You mentioned that your games were running fine with the original drivers so
what was your reason for trying the omegas?
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When the hard drive took a dump I thought I'd give the newer Omega's a shot
instead of the 3/2003 Fujitsu drivers. While I was able to play games some of
the newer ones, Vampire 2 Bloodlines, was totally unplayable. After I wiped the
drive and installed Windows I loaded the Omega's and the gameplay was fine so I
didnt think anything of it.

Turns out that Fujitsu's idea of a heat sink consist of a piece of aluminium
thats about a 16th of an inch thick and no fan....

Its going to run me about $500.00 to have the thing fixed. After I do I wont be
playing games on it anymore... I guess I have to go and buy an Alienware or
something.

BTW, the real ATI drivers wouldnt install on the computer even after I reloaded
windows. So my options were only the alomst 2 year old Fujitsu drivers or the
Omega's.


Matt

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M and M Electronics
6661 Stanford Ranch Road
Suite F, PMB 105
Rocklin Ca 95677
916-275-5871
 
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