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    Strange white screen...help !

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by aSmileForYou, Jun 19, 2009.

  1. aSmileForYou

    aSmileForYou Newbie

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    I really need your help on this one guys.
    I have a MSI GX710 gaming :p notebook that I've bought a year ago. Everything goes just fine, the notebook works ok with a single problem: sometimes the screen freezes with horizontal white lines and it tends to 'fill' in white...I believe this is due to an overheating of my gpu but the problem occurs randomly (not only when I play a game, but also when running different apps which use less resources). To solve the problem, I close the lid of my nb and then resume it, and everything is ok...
     
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  2. GamingACU

    GamingACU Notebook Deity

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    Sounds like artifacting due to a fried gpu. What video card do you have, if it's an 8600m they're pretty much all defective so that could be the problem. Also if you overheated your gpu too much at one time it could have permanently damaged it.
     
    GamingACU, Jun 19, 2009
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  3. aSmileForYou

    aSmileForYou Newbie

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    I have an mobility hd2600 with 512mb ddr2. I've OC once and flashed an bios with raised gpu/memory speeds (+50-100MHz each), but as I stated that my video card can't take that, I reverted to original gpu bios (I made backup before). Now I haven't experienced the problem for a week or so, but it should appear again. I don't want to open the nb as it's still under warranty.
     
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  4. Signal2Noise

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    False.

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    Signal2Noise, Jun 19, 2009
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