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    BIOS caching/shadowing?! VGA BIOS?!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by soltarian, Jul 17, 2007.

  1. soltarian

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    Hi everyone,

    I recently came across the following screen while playing a game (Virtual Skipper 5):
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    I have an Acer TravelMate 6000 with the following:
    Intel Pentium M 1.6Ghz
    Intel 855GME chipset (graphic card – 64Mb)
    1.21Gb of RAM
    FUJITSU MHV2080AH 75Gb hard drive
    Windows XP Pro

    And while the minimum requirement for the game is:
    Pentium 4 1.6Ghz
    256 RAM
    32Mb graphic card

    I still have that damn blue screen after I play for a bit. Because I can play but generally not more than 10-15minutes …
    I upgrade my BIOS to the last known update but couldn’t find any caching/shadowing option to configure …
    I updated my graphic card to the last known driver and still have that blue screen …

    Also, although it says my graphic card has 64Mb, I can only put 8, 16 or 32Mb into the BIOS?

    So I’m basically clueless on the whole matter since my laptop is working perfectly in any other situation and I really want to play that game!!!!!


    Cheers
     
    soltarian, Jul 17, 2007
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    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Greg, Jul 17, 2007
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    I don't think your GPU can handle?
     
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    GPU?! did u mean CPU or not? if not can u please explain:s
     
    soltarian, Jul 17, 2007
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    ooops, forgot to thanks Greg!!! I'm checkin it out now - thnx!
     
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    Greg, your link suggests me to roll back my Realtek driver, is this what I should do?

    And sorry fot the triple posting...
     
    soltarian, Jul 17, 2007
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    Just to say that I partially solved the problem. All I had to do was to disable the sound into the properties of the game! I'm currently downloading the realtek ac'97 audio coded&driver but because of my connection (56k) I need to wait a bit before installing it!

    Anyway, thanks for directing me in the right direction ;)!
    I'll post again to say if the update solved the problem or not (once I installed it)!

    Cheers
     
    soltarian, Jul 17, 2007
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