Hi Zylitar,
I'm glad everything worked out for you in the end.
Thanks for reporting back to the group.
--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
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Zylitar Wrote:
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| Hi Jimmy.
|
| I updated my drivers and put the laptop on it's box to no avail. I have
| fixed it though. I re-formatted it with the factory settings disk and it
| worked fine for a few hours before it started cutting out again. So... I got
| a free program called gamegain which boost's the performance of your
| games/video card. You would think that this would make it even hotter maybe
| it does, maybe it wasn't the temperature at all. Either way I'm sorted with
| gamegain running. After selecting your desired speed with gamegain (free)
| fast or (must buy the software) fastest you hit go and it (I think)
| reconfigures lots of things which is initiated like an installation. After
| that you don't need to run it again.
|
| Thank you for your aid.
|
| Windows XP fast learner (>me<)
).
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Zylitar,
||
|| The first thing I would do in your situation is visit the website
|| of the laptop's manufacturer, and update all system drivers,
|| in particular the drivers for Chipset, Sound, and Video.
||
|| Driver installation instructions should be provided at the web
|| site, or start from Step 2 of my desktop video driver install
|| instructions:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/Video.html#drivers
||
|| Plug in your laptop for the best results when gaming.
||
|| OVERHEATING is the #1 cause of various laptop problems!
|| Be certain that you're not blocking the laptop's air vents,
|| and that they are free of dust. Look for signs of overheating
|| by running your hand along the sides and bottom of the laptop.
||
|| If you notice your laptop is running hot, and the fans are all
|| working properly, one trick that I've used with my old laptop
|| was to sit it on a clean flat box (similar to a medium pizza box),
|| in which I kept several cooler ice packs from the freezer. ;-)
|| Of course, you could order a professional cooling mat instead.
||
|| If you feel that your laptop is overheating way too much, you
|| should contact the manufacturer to see what they suggest. In
|| some cases they may need to replace the CPU heating fan, or
|| recommend the ideal Power Settings to use while gaming.
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
|| Zylitar Wrote:
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||| Hi
|||
||| After running NHL06 for about 30 minutes my laptop switches off but this
||| hasn't always been the case. I'm assuming that the reason it switches off is
||| because it's over-heating. I may be wrong. Why is it doing this now when it
||| previously did not and what steps can I take to remedy it as I'm quite upset
||| about this. My laptop runs on a pentium M using an ATI Radeon Mobility X300
||| video card if that will help you to give me any suggestions.
|||
||| Thank you yara diamond
).
