Troubles with Video Card

I'm having trouble with my video card in the p-7805u. With HWMonitor as idle I run at 74-78 *C, and with gaming I reach up to about 83-84 *C max. I followed the guide, clean the fans and applied new paste. I used AS5. Still having high temps compared to others that have posted their HWMonitor. I play D3 and LoL. In LoL, I can play for about 30mins to 1 hour then I get the black screen which I have to do a complete restart. Diablo has improved a bit which I can play a little longer but then I goes black as well. I am a newb at this, but I'm trying to absorb at much information that I can. I've seen some other post tried that approach but no good results. I use a cooling pad as well and I only use my laptop on a wood desk. But still get those temps. I've seen Kawa and with 8 hours of gaming on Tera and he his highest gpu was my idle temps. So any help would be awesome. Thanks for your time

 

83-84c is not too bad but the idle is horrible. If you are running 9c.23.00 bios this is why. in version 9c.20.00 and above Gateway initialized nVidia's fix to extend the chips life incase of solder issues with the chips. This is possible on older 9800m chips with the 512K video memory as they were produced before the supposed anounced fix in the GPU.

Now 9c.17.00 does not have this "FIX" from nVidia but also does not have the Windows7 fix for the 1394 drivers. In Windows7 with 9c.17.00 you have to use the legacy 1394 driver. Otherwise all elsee is normal and functions fine.

 

Thanks for the information there. So since I have the 1GB video memory, I should get the 9c.17.00 and this would help me have a normal laptop again?

 

what bios version do you have? if it is 9c.20.00 or above then yes 9c.17.00 should help............

 

Yeah, I got 9c.17.00 big difference. Idle I'm around 48-50*c now. Haven't done any gaming yet, but I'm about to do some. Another question, I do have windows 7, so how do I know that this bios is the legacy 1394 driver?

 

You have to go in windows 7 to device manager. Find the 1394 driver and if it does not say "1394 Legacy" then change it to the legacy driver........

 

Tanware, my Win 7 Device Manage says: 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller.

Is that the legacy driver? There is no other option noted.

 

Use the legacy...........

 

Guess I've got to find that legacy driver somewhere on the net.

 

it is part of the default windows 7 install. You need to search for drivers and select compatible drivers and it will list..............

 

Got it! Much thanks Tanware.

 

Yeah thanks TanWare

 

No problem, hope all works well.............

 

Good temperatures but still problem with gaming. In idle state, I'm rocking 50*C on the gpu and IMV is 47*C and Duo are at 35*C. For a bit I would be able to game for about 30minutes then I would crash. The crash is the display screen going straight black with the frozen sound. Then I'd do a hard reboot and would be able to game then for about 2 hours without any problems. Now I still have the 30min crash but the other crashes range from 5-15 minutes. I'm never really able to see the temps because I usually freeze before I can see it. Does this mean my motherboard is toast? I have ICD7 on my GPU, IMV and CPU. I've cleaned out the fans. I've also perform Andros method for the Video crash. I can surf, watch movies, watch youtube, and listen to music without any problems. I've been playing LoL which I have the crashes the most. My setting are 1900*1200 and I'm using NVIDIA 197.16. Is there a specific nvidia software that I need to be using? I just want to be able to game without having to worry about have to do a reboot each time. Any help would be awesome. Thanks for your time.

 

yeah, you will need to monitor temps, not sure how you wiould do this but best bet is run hardware monitor in the background then after say 20 minutes of game play come out and see where your temps are. If you are gettign them too high usually in that 20 minutes or so it will show on the max temp etc.

 

Here is my temperature after a 35minute game

 

My temp after the crash http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd199/Tommmmmy36/Afteracrash.png

 

If there is an easier way to post these pictures, I will gladly go that route so you can see it better.

 

nope those posts are fine. Looking at the two it does not appear that heat is an issue for you.............

 

Is it possible that my cooling pad is making the crash. I've been playing without it for a bit now. I haven't crashed yet but I don't know. I could crash possibly on the next game.

 

is the cooling pad usb powered and/or a usb doc?

 

It is usb powered

 

Theoretically it could cause issues. The cooler is pulling power from the system, making this power unavailable forinternal resources. The other issue could be the mechanical motors/fans causing electronic noise. This both in the power lines and Rf etc.................