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    Do I need to send out my P-6860fx for repairs?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by pttyboy92, Jul 13, 2010.

  1. pttyboy92

    pttyboy92 Notebook Enthusiast

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    For over two years I loved my p-6860fx, but I always seemed to have this problem. Anytime I play an "intensive" 3d game (ex CS, HL2, BF2, and any other retail games) the screen would turn black and the sound would loop. I kind of "fixed" the problem by going to rivatuner and changing the profile to constantly use "performance 3d" at 500/800/1250 (default). It all seems well until the game either freezes for a couple seconds/blinks to black and back/simply goes to desktop, all while having the nvlddmkm error, usually occuring multiple times. So instead of the black screen, I get the other issues above. Now this whole time I thought it was temperature and dust, but today I decided to use gpu-z to measure the temperature, which at full load is 62 degrees. That, my friends is not a high temp at all. So, I've tried everything and think this is just a defect caused by god knows what, and am going to send out for repair. Now of course theres more issues. Do I still have warranty? (which says "not available" online), how much is it to repair? (as I spent $200 for cpu upgrade and $55 for a hard drive), and do I really have to go through the hell of not using my laptop, which I did when my hard drive died a couple weeks ago (lovley, isnt it?)
    So, should I send out my laptop for repairs, or just save up money for a desktop
     
    pttyboy92, Jul 13, 2010
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    pttyboy92 Notebook Enthusiast

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    holy crap i'm starting to wonder, I looked at gpu-z and it is telling me i'm running at 0.85 volts (never messed with it), is the voltage too low?
     
    pttyboy92, Jul 13, 2010
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    .85v at full load is low. It should be at 1.0v under load. What drivers are you using?
     
    xxERIKxx, Jul 14, 2010
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    i am currently using 257.21, but all the drivers do the same thing though, anyway how can i up the voltage to 1.00?
     
    pttyboy92, Jul 14, 2010
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    okay well i'm trying to use nibitor to change the voltage but it wont read the bios for some reason, also i'm trying to back up my current bios with nvflash and it wont work at all :(
     
    pttyboy92, Jul 14, 2010
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    wow, gpuz can read the voltages on your 6860fx, on my 6831fx it didnt read anything. maybe when i get my laptop back from the repair shop i will look around for the voltage readings.
     
    yotano211, Jul 15, 2010
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