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    Slight problems with my Gateway ID49 model

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by EnergeticGamer, Sep 16, 2010.

  1. EnergeticGamer

    EnergeticGamer Newbie

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    First off this is a really great laptop, I'm not saying it's bad. It's fast and efficient for web browsing etc. It loads up the laptop to the windows desktop in under a minute and loads applications with ease. The internet connection is fine, has not failed me yet and the battery life is super 3+ hours. However when it comes to gaming I've been having an issue.

    The games I mainly play online are the steam games Team Fortress 2 & Counter Strike Source. I play these games with great frame rate, really smooth at a frame rate over 60 at high settings. I'd say as soon as 5 minutes in game play the game would totally freeze for around 2-4 seconds and loop the sound over and over again and would them resume the game at 60+ frames as if nothing has ever happened. This problem would then occur every 2-3 minutes average.
    One thing for sure i can tell it is not an over heating problem. The highest temperature I've seen my GPU go up to is 64c and even if the laptop is being played in an air conditioned environment with a fan with next to my laptop i would still get the freeze. So pretty much this problem has left me stumped.

    Another thing about the ID49 model is that the Hard Drive makes a noise, more of a tick.. took... with a pause after the noise ranging from a couple of seconds to minutes until it would do it again. At first i thought it was a hard drive problem so I exchanged it for another model but nope the other model did the same thing, so i am guessing its normal since my hard drive health is fine from diagnostics programs.

    So in conclusion great laptop, very portable and thin light weight. Shame though about the gaming since it has a decent graphics card combined with the Intel(R) Media Accelerator. If anybody can help me with the fix that would be great thanks.
     
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    Anybody out there with the same Model? Gateway ID49?
     
    EnergeticGamer, Sep 16, 2010
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    I have the same problem. I don't game, but I notice this problem while typing - the keyboard and mouse will hang for about 2-4 seconds every couple of minutes and then resume. It's annoying but perhaps not as annoying as getting a head shot in counterstrike during a hang. I have been looking for a solution but I have not found an answer yet (I did update the motherboard drivers but to no avail). Hopefully someone will post something soon.

    S

    PS - I do like the laptop a lot - a great value, a great keyboard, and it is fast.
     
    cowenowner, Sep 22, 2010
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    cowenowner, Sep 22, 2010
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  5. PeterDLai

    PeterDLai Notebook Consultant

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    Do you have a Western Digital hard drive? If so, it may be that the hard drive is too aggressively parking its heads.

    A remedy for this problem is to download quietHDD and disable APM.
     
    PeterDLai, Sep 25, 2010
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    rbl_posse Notebook Geek

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    My Canadian model ID49C01u, came with a Western Digital Scorpio Blue 5400rpm 8mb cache 640gb drive. I also had the issue the OP described, but since adding an SSD the problem dissapeared. I initially thought the hard drive was just slow as hell, which it is, but parking heads would certainly be a logical explanation rather than just the drive being slow.
     
    rbl_posse, Sep 30, 2010
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