Laptop diagnostic help.

Mikeyman64 · Post by **Mikeyman64** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:27 pm

I've been having trouble with my laptop ever since I have become the owner, (about...7 months?) and it's been the same problem.
The problem is just a bunch of graphics glitches/artifacts while playing a game or watching a video. It's got a ATi Mobility 9700 and an AMD Athlon 64 3400+. Up until today I thought the problem was in the GPU, but I have noticed that, if I leave the lappy on for a lengthy period of time, it will start glitching when the processor is under moderate use (30-50%) or higher. So is this a GPU problem or a CPU problem?

Dark Savant0 · Post by **Dark Savant0** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:08 am

Return the laptop if you can for another. It seems like an overheating issue. Does it do this when you have just turned the pc on?

Mikeyman64 · Post by **Mikeyman64** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:00 am

It was givin to me by someone and I'm pretty sure the warrenty has expired.

It will freak out (graphically speaking) whenever a 3D process is started, regardless of it's "on-time". It just doesn't nead help (by way of 3D) if it's been on for a while.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:34 am

immediately or after like 20 seconds of 3d?

sounds kinda like heat issues to me too, like maybe it got dropped and the heatsink isnt sitting right or something...

or it got dropped and the GPU cracked

or Directx is messed up? i dunno. run dxdiag and its tests and see what it says.