testing out my THIRD 7811fx

First one froze during all games.

Second one had heavy "ghosting" screen.

Third one, well, has a tiny bit of ghosting but nothing too bad. IT BETTER NOT FREEZE DURING GAMES OR OVERHEAD ETC ETC...we will see we will see

 

Is the screen supposed to have any ghosting, especially anything visible? I think that there is something heavily wrong with the quality assurance and product testing on this notebook. I mean, the specs it has for $1450. There has to be some cuts somewhere.................but where?

 

i'm pretty sure Gateway did cut some much needed quality assurance with this product line to get it down to 1450 (or 1250) bucks. I mean getting two defective units in a row is just unacceptable. But I guess I'm a sucker for trying out this third one. Hell IF IT DOES WORK its a great great laptop. I just don't want a defective one again.

and what I meant when I said ghosting was that if you view the screen turned on with a black color (i.e. a solid black desktop blackground) from either the left or the right side at an angle, you will notice a big white-gray blob start to appear in the middle or somewhere on the LCD screen.

Seriously Gateway, ***...

 

Somebody had posted a whole new list of updated drivers for the 7811fx, on this forum, I forgot where, that "might " help you out.

 

Are you serious? That really sucks.

 

No amount of "ghosting" should be acceptable. You didn't get the laptop for free. You paid good money.

 

Ok..lemme ask, what background are you using that is allowing you to determine it is ghosting? Cause Ive found some backgrounds appear to ghost, when it is the background itself.

For example.. the black "Gateway" background with the two ****e curved streaks across the bottom..that one tends to show more contrast, and also there are 2 versions of that same background. One appears to ghost, the other not so much. I've also found that this background never appears ghosted.



But hey, whatever makes ya happy..

 

i think us who got it on the first time should really thank our stars

 

its on a totally solid black background...i apologize if i used the wrong term. i think "image burn" "or "imprint" is better suited. like if I move around a white image on top of a black background, there are faint light imprints of the image. its weird. if you move the white mouse cursor around certain areas of the screen, there's like light "imprint" that stays behind. and if you wipe it with your finger it will kind of go away.

oh well i'm gonna keep testing games on this little baby as long as i don't get game crashes like with my first one i'm ok with something that's barely even noticeable 95% of the time...just as long as it doesn't get worse and worse.

and yes you people who got perfect 7811's the first time are either extremely lucky or you're just not noticing the faults heh

 

kevin, this is number 6. Im just very picky. And 3 of them were intentionally returned cause I wanted to. Not necessairly cause they had major problems. But overall the 7811FX is a solid rig. And I could have probably stuck with the first and never been more satisfied. The black backgrounds will look like crap on any computer. Dontcha know? LCD and black dont make good friends. Maybe ya should upgrade to a plasma screen

 

hey if this unit doesn't freeze up on games or have any MAJOR issues, i can live with some tiny LCD "defect" that barely gets noticed and doesn't really bother me all that much....so far my games been ok, but still testing.

also anyone know a good GPU/CPU system stress test program (vista 64 compatible) to run for a couple hours to really test this thing?



Happy (frustrating as ****) Testing!

 

Gateway pays the same as everyone else for the components (except Dell and HP who would get them even cheaper). Everyone else is just putting in more profit margin. QA will be exactly the same.

 

Good luck. I wouldn't mind ghosting too much if it's only visible from an angle I won't be looking at the laptop from anyway. It's true that LCD flaws are very common. Unless they're really huge, the only one that bothers me is dead or stuck pixels.

Try Prime95 for a stress test.

 

Yeah, Prime95 25.6 off their website. It works good. Also download Nvidia Geoforms, gets my GPU hotter than playing games. But, I'm lucky man, my GPU overclocked tops at 152 farenheit.