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jbob2000
Gallente KIA Corp KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.02 19:05:00 -
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Ok so here's my laptop, it's about 2 months old:
Dell XPS m1710, Vista, core 2 2ghz, 2 gigs ram, 120gb HD, and an Nvidia Geforce Go 7900 GS.
The problem:
Up until about a week ago, I could play all my games at really good FPS. Oblivion, Company of Heroes, Eve, CnC3, etc. Now, whenever I play any of them, they're choppy. I first noticed it while playing trackmania, the game just out of nowhere start to lag. I was on battery at this time. Then my screen went all wonky on me, it began twitching. I closed the game and the twitching stopped. My screen doesn't twitch when I play anything full screen, only windowed 3d games.
At first I figured it might be something with the drivers, so I tried to update but there's no new drivers so meh. Next I figured it was stupid vista downgrading the quality because I was playing on battery, so I restarted. Nope, same deal. Even solitaire is choppy now. The flipping of the cards isn't smooth and its really quite noticeable. I am quite careful with the laptop (don't throw the bag around, etc.) so I don't think I've actually physically damaged the card.
Any Ideas? ________________________________
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Sereifex Daku
Delictum 23216
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Posted - 2007.10.02 19:07:00 -
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I'm no techie but consider the possibility that you have a virus on your comp. Other than that, it could be a pesky proces like cvhost.exe is hoggin all the memory.
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jbob2000
Gallente KIA Corp KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.02 19:10:00 -
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Originally by: Sereifex Daku I'm no techie but consider the possibility that you have a virus on your comp. Other than that, it could be a pesky proces like cvhost.exe is hoggin all the memory.
Could be a virus, im scanning now with avg. Would a process hogging ram cause choppy video though? ________________________________
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aeti
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.10.02 20:03:00 -
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does vista still drop your drives in pio mode when it gets any read errors like xp?
hence after a while xp was bound to just slow down on any hdd access :\
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Sharupak
Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.10.03 03:10:00 -
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Its tough to say, but sounds to me like a loose monitor cable inside your laptop. Adjust the angle of the screen while you are playing your games and see if you get any change. Even go so far as to open the screen to the max.
The other thing it could be is your monitor getting ****ed of at the resolution setting. Change that to see if it makes it worse of better.
The last thing it could be is interference. I have actually seen this happen on rare occasion with flat panel monitors. Most likely though, the interferance is comming from inside the laptop like the dvdrom or hd. But just in case, try playing it in a different location. _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude. |
jbob2000
Gallente KIA Corp KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.03 03:24:00 -
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Originally by: Sharupak Its tough to say, but sounds to me like a loose monitor cable inside your laptop. Adjust the angle of the screen while you are playing your games and see if you get any change. Even go so far as to open the screen to the max.
The other thing it could be is your monitor getting ****ed of at the resolution setting. Change that to see if it makes it worse of better.
The last thing it could be is interference. I have actually seen this happen on rare occasion with flat panel monitors. Most likely though, the interferance is comming from inside the laptop like the dvdrom or hd. But just in case, try playing it in a different location.
Ok did what you suggested:
Angle of screen had no affect. I don't think the resolution has anything to do with it as everything worked perfectly a week or two ago. Tried a different resolution anyways and still had no affect. Turned off HD and removed cd and still got choppy video. I have used it in many different locations as I use it for class (yep, all 17" of it) and still get choppy graphics.
I rolled back the graphics drivers, which had no affect, then reinstalled the latest ones, which had no affect. Defragged the HD, no affect, virus scan came up clean. Is it possible for a laptop video card to come loose from the slot? Would that produce these kinds of effects? ________________________________
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Sharupak
Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.10.03 03:26:00 -
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Originally by: jbob2000
Originally by: Sharupak Its tough to say, but sounds to me like a loose monitor cable inside your laptop. Adjust the angle of the screen while you are playing your games and see if you get any change. Even go so far as to open the screen to the max.
The other thing it could be is your monitor getting ****ed of at the resolution setting. Change that to see if it makes it worse of better.
The last thing it could be is interference. I have actually seen this happen on rare occasion with flat panel monitors. Most likely though, the interferance is comming from inside the laptop like the dvdrom or hd. But just in case, try playing it in a different location.
Ok did what you suggested:
Angle of screen had no affect. I don't think the resolution has anything to do with it as everything worked perfectly a week or two ago. Tried a different resolution anyways and still had no affect. Turned off HD and removed cd and still got choppy video. I have used it in many different locations as I use it for class (yep, all 17" of it) and still get choppy graphics.
I rolled back the graphics drivers, which had no affect, then reinstalled the latest ones, which had no affect. Defragged the HD, no affect, virus scan came up clean. Is it possible for a laptop video card to come loose from the slot? Would that produce these kinds of effects?
I guess it could...something about that says bad connection or bad sync to me but its tough to say without looking at it. _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude. |
Kojirochan
Perkone
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Posted - 2007.10.03 08:37:00 -
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Hmmmm, its possible that one or some cooling fans could either of failed, or not reaching the correct speed to cool GPU/CPU when playing games.
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dellie
Darwin With Attitude oooh Shiny
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Posted - 2007.10.03 08:53:00 -
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Its Dell.. 2 months old?
i would just phone support and ask them wtf is going on... I guess with the xps package it had either 6 months or 1 year pick up and return warranty.. Allthough you would have to miss your laptop for a couple days or more... i would go for it...
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zibelthurdos
Archron Dusyfe Industries Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2007.10.03 11:34:00 -
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did you try running dxdiag? ----------------------------------------------- I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum" |
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Transit Man
Amarr Icarus' Wings Daedalus Hegemony
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Posted - 2007.10.03 13:58:00 -
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Originally by: jbob2000 Ok so here's my laptop, it's about 2 months old:
Dell XPS m1710, Vista, core 2 2ghz, 2 gigs ram, 120gb HD, and an Nvidia Geforce Go 7900 GS.
Think I know what it is, you have bloatware installed called MS Vista....
No seriously, have you had any auto updates to the OS? Has Vista SP1 mysteriously installed itself? Trace the last software you installed (if you can remember) since it last worked correctly. Simple things, try downloading CCleaner, run the cleaner, then run the issues tab section. Check your task manager for high CPU activity, both with your net connected and disconnected. Do you have Norton installed? Remove it, it sux and is a resource hog. Install Avast Antivirus (it's free). Could just be a faulty laptop component tho, so see if Dell will replace.
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jbob2000
Gallente KIA Corp KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.03 17:12:00 -
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Originally by: zibelthurdos did you try running dxdiag?
did that, nothing out of the norm. If its something with the drivers, I dunno what it could be so heres the stuff about my card from dxdiag:
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS Manufacturer: NVIDIA Chip type: GeForce Go 7900 GS DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0298&SUBSYS_019B1028&REV_A1 Display Memory: 520 MB Dedicated Memory: 248 MB Shared Memory: 271 MB Current Mode: 1920 x 1200 (32 bit) (60Hz) Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll Driver Version: 7.15.0010.9746 (English) DDI Version: 9Ex Driver Attributes: Final Retail Driver Date/Size: 12/13/2006 19:16:38, 3055616 bytes ________________________________
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Zeeke
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.10.03 23:31:00 -
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Edited by: Zeeke on 03/10/2007 23:31:04 whoops ____________________________________ BOO! |
jbob2000
Gallente KIA Corp KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.03 23:31:00 -
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ok **** the video card for a moment, my internet is being wonky. I've been getting a 503 service unavailable message for every site I go to with some "Packeteer PacketShaper" **** at the bottom of the message. The internet still works though; i can access my email through outlook, sign on to msn, acces my university web site. When the internet does work, it goes the speed of dial up. UGH!!! ________________________________
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Sharupak
Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.10.04 01:04:00 -
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Edited by: Sharupak on 04/10/2007 01:06:28 Edited by: Sharupak on 04/10/2007 01:04:39
Originally by: jbob2000 ok **** the video card for a moment, my internet is being wonky. I've been getting a 503 service unavailable message for every site I go to with some "Packeteer PacketShaper" **** at the bottom of the message. The internet still works though; i can access my email through outlook, sign on to msn, acces my university web site. When the internet does work, it goes the speed of dial up. UGH!!!
For that go
start>run>type cmd>
Black dos window
Type netsh type int ip reset all type int reset all type winsock reset all
reboot
However, many times that kinda screwup usually means virus/spyware. However, this symptom...I cant figure out how it is related to your original problem.
I am not sure if it works on vista (it should) but download this to your desktop. Linkage run it and post the log here.
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Sharupak
Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.10.04 01:18:00 -
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Another thing,
Go into your bios and dialback cpu gpu settings. If there is some sort of default overclocking or something, see if you can get rid of it. (Something I saw once) Disable C4 stepping if possile.( You may only be allowed to do this with hp laptops, Havent worked on many dells lately) _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude. |
Kata Dakini
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Posted - 2007.10.04 02:47:00 -
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Originally by: dellie Its Dell.. 2 months old?
i would just phone support and ask them wtf is going on... I guess with the xps package it had either 6 months or 1 year pick up and return warranty.. Allthough you would have to miss your laptop for a couple days or more... i would go for it...
You're crazy. Dell just replaces stuff with used crap that has the same hardware issues. Never...ever...again.
Seriously. At this point, I, myself, me, would demand a refund and eat it. Get a computer you can rely on.
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Brechan Skene
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Posted - 2007.10.04 07:25:00 -
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Edited by: Brechan Skene on 04/10/2007 07:30:05 Edited by: Brechan Skene on 04/10/2007 07:29:16 Have you got any anti-spy ware software? Have you done a HDD defrag?
This might help with your 503 error Cause The 503 Service Unavailable error is an HTTP status code that means the web site's server is simply not available at the moment. This is usually due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. Resolution The 503 Service Unavailable error is a "server-side" error, meaning the problem is not with your PC or Internet connection but instead is a problem with the web site's server. Even though the issue is not yours to troubleshoot or resolve, there are a few things you can do:
1. Retry the web page by clicking the refresh/reload button or trying the URL from the address bar again. Even though the 503 Service Unavailable error is reporting an error on the web site's servers and not your computer, the server error is usually only temporary. Trying the page again will often be successful.
Note: If the 503 Service Unavailable error message appears during the checkout process at an online merchant, be aware that duplicate attempts to checkout may end up creating multiple orders - and multiple charges! Most merchants have automatic protections from these kinds of actions but it's still something to keep in mind.
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jbob2000
Gallente KIA Corp KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.04 15:36:00 -
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I am not a ******... I am not going crazy...
Ok when I booted up my computer this morning, everything was fine. Internet worked, video was back to normal. WTF IS GOING ON?!?!!? ________________________________
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