Gateway FX Crashe Problems

My laptop crashes about 5 minutes into playing WoW on battery power. I have my battery set to high performance settings when unplugged. It just freezes and won't come back so I have to restart the computer. Its a Gateway FX with 4GB ram, 2.3 GHz processor, and nVidia 9800m GTS with 1GB of RAM. It's happened 4 times now, all but once I had to restart it. That one time all I had to do was Control+alt+dlt and it went to task manager and I could go back in and play and it didn't happen again that time, so i don't know whats wrong. Some people said it was the battery supply so i turned it up and the same thing happened. Some others said it was the RAM, but this thing has 4 GB of RAM, and and whole GB for the video card, so I might be wrong but I don't think that's it...help?

Update:
1. I played for a while plugged in upstairs, and it worked fine, before I went downstairs with the battery.
2. I updated the drivers from Gateway, then nVidia and played on battery. It crashed again after about 45 minutes of playing.
3. HELP please...I'm getting rather annoyed. I don't want to send it back because it would be another week before it got in so I'd like to fix this one if at all possible.

 

take this to the gateway forum... lots of help over there... and these things are very finicky on battery power trying to play a game. sometimes i'm simply writing a paper on battery and it will freeze...also check the settings you are running on battery, like the hard drive, sometimes it turns off when not plugged in so change the time on it maybe, its under the advanced power settings

 

It's on the gateway forums and only one person helped.

I checked the power and adv. power options and everything looks ok, but then again I don't really know what to look for.

 

go to control panel> power options, then under high performance click "change plan settings" then you want to click on "change advanced power settings". when you do it will bring up another window for advanced settings, in there you will see a setting for the hard drive, click that and it goes to "turn off hard disk after", click that and then you can change the settings for the amount of time before it turns off your hard drive, you can do it for battery and plugged in, make sure you apply it and hit ok, it might then change the name of the plan form high performance to My Custom Plan 1, just make sure that is the plan you use when gaming. Hopefully that will help your problem.

 

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