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    8710w problems

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Pumper, Jan 4, 2009.

  1. Pumper

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    Hello everyone,

    I bought 8710w (KE191EA) and have some questions and issues:

    - CPU and HDD don't get very high, when gaming, but the GPU and mobo get up to 80C and more. I understand that to GPU this is normal, but what about the motherboard?

    - while playing games (L4D, COD4 - especially L4D) my laptop constantly locks up for several seconds (still image with looping sound). This problem is not that noticeable while playing UT3, TDU and other games. I never had these problems on my old Asus S96J.

    - something is wrong with the HDD, because I can't make a new partition on it. Now it has the system partition (C) and HP recovery (E). When I try to make a partition using PartitionMagic8, I get error 1517 after reboot. CHKDSK should fix this, but it doesn't. Gparted also can't do it, because it shows ! icon besides C: and I can't resize the disk. The reason I want to do this is that I would like to have XP32bit and Vista64bit dual boot (laptop came with XP preinstalled).

    Thank you for your help,
    Pumper
     
    Pumper, Jan 4, 2009
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  2. Xirurg

    Xirurg ORLY???

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    temp is normal I guess!also,try updating GPU divers!
     
    Xirurg, Jan 4, 2009
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    I have the latest drivers from HP.com.
    nVidia does not support FX cards and the latest drivers from laptopvideo2go just made the GPU crash several times.
     
    Pumper, Jan 4, 2009
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    One more thing.
    I'm working with 3dsmax and have some performance issues. The FX card should be optimized for openGL, but it works a lot faster when using dx9 drivers, although it doesn't seem to be that better than on my old asus with x1600 vga.
     
    Pumper, Jan 6, 2009
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