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    Laptop problems

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by milosath, Dec 26, 2008.

  1. milosath

    milosath Newbie

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    Hi to all and merry christmas

    I have 2 questions about my notebook
    i have a 3000 C200 lenovo laptop
    a lot of times the laptop automatically shutdown.
    i had changed the motherboard but the problem appears again after
    few months.
    i think that the problem come from the video
    the memory of the video card is 128MB and is shared with the RAM(1GB).
    do you know anyone how i can i upgrade the video memory.
    the problem appears when the screen is very big and need more memory.

    Thanks a lot and sorry about this long message
     
  2. TabbedOut

    TabbedOut Notebook Evangelist

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    The video memory you can't change out, but are you sure that this is the problem? When you are increasing the demands of your GPU you are also increasing it's heat output. Are you sure that it is not overheating?
     
  3. milosath

    milosath Newbie

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    hi
    thanks for your reply
    i think that is the problem because i cannot feel any warm air from the side
    of the laptop
    can you tell me how can i see if the cpu is overheating?
    thanks again
     
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    TabbedOut Notebook Evangelist

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    There are several temp monitoring programs. I used to use speedfan, but have switched to coretemp sue to it's ability to monitor both cores. Speedfan, I think, has the ability to also monitor GPU temps if your system supports it. That you aren't blowing out any hot air makes me suspicious, but I would download some temp monitoring software and see where you are running.
     
  5. milosath

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    HI again
    Do you know anyone any programm for monitoring the video memory?