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Howdy, first time posting here. If this is the wrong forum for this, I'm sorry.
I have an older model laptop...the Inspiron 9100. Embarassing I know. It has worked wonderfully these last few years, bought it in august 3 years ago. It's done great for me at school my first year, although being a bit bulky and having loud fans made it slightly embarassing in class. I have played every game ive tried to run on it, even bf2142 and WH: MoC, although at low settings.
Yesterday, however, as i was playing DAoC, a game I've been playing for years with no trouble, the graphics exploded. That's the only way i can explain it. Was in the middle of a skirmish when the colors fractured. The only other time I've seen this is when the screen broke in storage on an airplane years ago, so naturally i was worried.
When I turned the laptop back on, there didn't appear to be anything wrong, but I decided to let the laptop rest for a night. So I played today, and was playing for a good 2 hours when the same thing happened. This time however, when i turned the laptop back on, even windows is graphically challenged and experiencing a haze. Pixels are scattered. This only happens, however, after a few seconds.
At first i thought it was overheating, but when i allowed the notebook to cool down and booted it back up, the same thing happened after about a minute. This may point to heating, but not sure and have never had problems with overheating before.
I did notice that my battery is not charging past 85% for some reason. Perhaps the card isn't getting enough power?
Just wondering if anyone could help me out...and hopefully tell me that I don't need a new graphics card.
The irony in all this is that the last few weeks i have been reading these forums and researching laptops, though in the end i decided to wait til winter and the 8800 to do so.
Help with older notebook
Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Triloq, Jul 28, 2007.
