tschartz
03-08-2012 11:35 PM (1 day ago)
model: dv7-3079wm
My computer has recently adopted a tendency to freeze within about 10 minutes of playing any computer game. I believe the problem lies in the graphics card as when it freezes columns of pixels tend to shift left and right blurring the image on the screen. However if I give my laptop a hard shut off, whether it was frozen or not I have to wait 15 minutes before it will boot up. Before it actually turns all the way on it will turn on for a couple seconds then just shut off. I know it is not overheating as I have a good cooling pad, and I have monitored the temps as I am playing and it will crash at around 175 degrees (fahrenheit of course). The games I am playing I have been playing for quite a while on this laptop and they do not push it anywhere close to its limit. They have always ran at 60 frames, and it still runs at 60 frames until the freeze. While I am playing a game the ram used is about 2.4gb, which is again no where close to the limit. I redownloaded the drivers for the Graphics card, and I lowered the performance level of the card, but it hasnt helped. I hope I have been detailed enough and someone knows what makes something like this happen.
tschartz
03-08-2012 11:45 PM (1 day ago)
also the graphics card is an ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB DDR3 dedicated
and the Processor is an AMD turion II ultra dual core 2.4 ghz