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    Asus W3V Video Card Issues

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by orijin, Oct 13, 2005.

  1. orijin

    orijin Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    for the past days since i recieved my w3v i have been recieving video card issues with games after a while into the game the game would sometimes start getting artifacts.

    So then i tried undervolting which lowered the temperature of about 3-5 degrees under max performance. To see whether if it was getting too hot and the same thing happens. I get the usual blue screen of death, artifact crashing and out of nowhere crashing.

    This x600 isnt overclocked either. I had tried using the newest omega drivers and the newest asus drivers on their site. Both drivers are still crashing. Any help?
     
  2. pt9386

    pt9386 Notebook Consultant

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    I would take out the extra RAM and plop the old ones that come with your W3V back in and send it to ASUS. It looks like your video card is dying or about to if you tried the new video drivers and the omega because both have worked fine with mine and I have never gotten artifacts, but I did have some freezing issues, but I think that was due to the LAN driver and me undervolting way too much, but a bump to a higher voltage and the lastest LAN drivers fixed that immediately.
     
  3. orijin

    orijin Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    if i dont undervolt this thing my max temperatures that i get are 80 -81 degrees celcius and thats on a flat hard table surface too. And its running at full load.. do you have any game suggestions i can also test it on maybe its the game im playing.. is there another game that would use the full processor and video performance of the w3v?
     
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    i seemed to have fixed this issue.. guess it was realy the undervolting issue.. thanks for the tip.. everything runs fine now even while playing battlefield 2.