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Hahaha, naa these haven't been properly working since i got the machine, they should be able to handle more volume as the lower ones do ,

Buuuut

My VGA port is broken, most likely broken solder, i could attempt a repair job at that? but i don't know how exposed things are in the machine,

 

Really ? that long ? By the sound of it , warranty claim isn't worth the hassle thanks to DSG Anyway , as long as you can still use external speakers , no need to worry.

Broken solder should be easy to repair , hopefully you don't have a shaky hand

I want to take mine apart , i need confirmation on that invisible pci-e

 

I'm fairly sure its definately there,

Hmm either that or something inside of the vga part has shattered, its the pin/whatever that identifies the monitor/screens edid information.

The speakers are good, but when i wan't full 100% madness they make some strange rattle thing.

 

Time to make good use of those free pci-e's , even for storage purposes if bootable option ain't that easy.

Sometimes when there's a hole or tear in the black thingy it makes that rattling sounds .. On big speakers anyway.

Open it up and see how damaged the ports are , shouldn't be that hard.

 

A hole or a tear? In the black thingy? hahaha, love your understanding of speakers lol, i think laptop ones are slightly different to conventional drives, but i've not actually taken the top pannel off yet.

The VGA is part of the mobo, so i'd need to completely dissasemble it, can't look at it from the door :/

 

I know , that's why i told you to take a pic of the upper mobo coz you will have to disassemble it

 

Haha,i cant, its DSG, they used concrete to secure things in place damit...

 

Earthquake might brought it to its knees

Well that suck .. you still got warranty on yours ? mine went down the drain

 

I think warrenties dead now, although the machine was completely open in the first place, i doubt they'd notice i'd tampered with a unit unless it was a messy job, then thats my fault! haha.

 

I have been having wireless problems recently with my laptop. I never installed the Atheros Wireless Drivers because I thought that was maybe for a different network card since I have the Intel 5100 AGN. Is there any tweaks I can do to stabilize my wireless? I have a super fast internet, but it randomly just stops on the speed test. Like dead stops. It does it periodically and I mainly notice it on Ventrilo when my ping spikes to 10,000 and goes back to normal. I would appreciate help from you computer literate people. Thank you in advance.

P.S. I have been tampering with the settings of the network card in Device Manager so if anyone could give me their settings that work find for Wireless N, that may also help haha

PPS My internet is at 130 MBPS now also, how do I get it to 300, and yes my router is capable of 350 mbps

 

I've the same problem from time to time, let us know if you find the answer out mark! .

 

Well honestly we should all look into it together. We/you all spent so much time with the processor and video card and ram, and never any with our network card! Haha

 

Haha indeed, will start poking around tonight (Y).

 

Well, I will add. More specifically an issue that appears more common than most is, after I wake up and i.e. my computer wakes up, I notice horrible internet stability. Often times fixing this repairs this issue. I did enable throughput enhancement just because it doesn't sound like it would make my internet less stable. Under Ad Hoc Qos Mode, I clicked WMM enabled. It may or may not be better, but it does appear a little bit more stable. Unfortunately I still am only getting 130 MBPS out of 300 MBPS. I notice that our network card has two attenas that can each receive 150 mbps each. I did something that made it 300 mbps but I may have undid it or maybe it was just temporary. I am not very smart in network cards and have little to no idea what these or the other settings do so kinda just using the powers of observation to see if its good or not lol.

PSS: Just figured out how to get 300 MBPS. I switched it off from just using the 20hz frequency to it using either 20 or 40hz. But still some tweaks that would help stability would be appreciated

 

Get a 6300. It can support up to 3 antennas(which we have) and save you the headaches.

EDIT: Am i the only one seeing all the username in red ?

 

No man, we all have admin rights, have you not been to the admin secret lounge yet?

 

Hi Cata


baaaam



Oh yeeaah, the good old GT725.

 

No, I see all red too. I don't really feed the need to upgrade my router or network card for that reason. I am getting 300 MBPS connection now. I also have a 32-33 mbps cable download over wireless, so it's plenty fast. I just wanted tips or some help to optimize/stabilize our current network card that comes in the gt 275

 

now they are gone.... muw ha ha ha...

 

NBR's April fool red , purple , no user name ...

Tbh , i haven't used mine properly till now .. mostly wired connection. But we do have a 3rd antenna even though the one we got don't support 3.

 

Hey gang! Got a little problem... How the heck do you remove the dvd drive? I can't find a holding screw or release latch. What am I missing?

 

I think you need to remove the whole bottom to be able to get to it.

 

Are you running Win7 or Vista? I've got the same card and had constant drops with Vista, upgraded to Win7 and the problems stopped.That being said, awhile back I upgrarded the driver and started having problems, so I rolled it back (12.4.3.9) and it's been rock solid.

I don't have Wireless N, so I dunno if my settings would help.

 

I have Win 7 x64,but experienced similar problems on Win Vista x86. I use wireless N but any information/advice helps.

 

That's no Turbo & setfsb doesn't work with MSI bios .. modded one right ?

 

Ahaha! Chris, you bust the limit right open! knocked it on the head (Y).

Hmm Dead, Chris also knows of another ICS i think for our mobo so that allowed him to go slightly further.

Ram timings, how did you change CAS? Tis locked off for me,

Found some PC2-6400 2GB 800Mhz qimonda memory going for £20 local, might grab it for oc purpose, i think qimonda are reliable memory manufacturer.

With that rated fsb the q9000 would be on fire right now , howd you do it then? haha, or do i have to stalk you on the other forum!

Is that the barebone bios we originally used? Or have you a tool that bypass the limits (Like we have with the GPU.)

 

hello everyone
its been a while since i last posted here but nice to see this fourm in still going.

can you guys save me searching and please give me link to lastest software which can read temp for msigt725 thanks

i been having some problem with my graphic card i had a feeling its overheating but just want to double check and also if someone is using a nice cooler for it let me know so i can buy one thanks

Reagrds
FH

 

Hello stranger Last time they changed it right ?
http://www.hwinfo.com/download32.html
http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php

NZXT cryo lx seems like the best option out there.

 

lol u rememberd lol yes they had once in the past. i m not sure whats the problem i been playing bfbc2 a lot i mean 3 to 4 hours at a time after a couple of hours the screen start going black so i think its heating up but not sure yet so i ll moniter the temp just to see if its heating up

will update u guys as always
Thanks for the links
Regards
FH

 

Wow this is odd, faisal and chris on the same day good times haha.

GPU-z is also handy for specific GPU monitoring,

Hmm black screen sounds familiar, but i can't think what it was lol.

 

Yeah Might be time to re-paste the whole thing. Only in BC2 or other games as well ?

No prob man

 

Hmmm pastteeee, i'm probably going to do that too! maybe even strap some ram heatsinks to the foow!

I wan't to buy another gt725 underside so i can do what you did to yours... mass drill it haha.

 

If you found one let me know It's good to have one as spares. I bought some thermaltake BGA1 last week and it's too high to stick on the heatsink .. Need some very low profile ones.

Ordered some slim ones just in case , but have to wait 10000 yrs to get it (HongKong)

Gonna mod the crap out of it I need a spare heatsink too

Yeah the holes are doing great job , not that suitable for people who travels a lot though

 

well its still in warranty so i m not gonna re paste myself i ll just send it away and will give them some grief on the phone to get it fix lol

at the moment i m only playing bfbc2 i do play dfx2 but u cant compare these two as bfbc2 got much better graphics

i just took screen shot of normal temp i m gonna play for next few hours and once its gone black i ll take screen shot agin and will post them here

rest up to you guys to tell me how bad it is lol

later
Regards
FH

 

Haha, i do travel, and i drop the book alot, massive holes would probably shatter the bottom ,

I also plan on going quite crazy with mods, although i'd need some adhesive paste of the sort, i may actually try and bridge the heatsink slightly to the bottom lid to dissapate, can't remember if the underside door is just plastic or metal/plastic hybrid.

Might attempt to some how broaden all the heatsinks slightly at different positions, but don't wan't to suffocate the airflow, thats one thing that seems to be decent on the machine,

Could also try find some small fans and power them off USB internally, or perhaps even the mini pci slot?

Faisal, you could just go ahead and leave hw monitor open in the background, it shows min and max temps which is handy, so you won't need to screenshot every two minutes hehe.

Good luck tracking the problem (Y).

 

True , use it as long as you still have it. Alright man see you later & good luck

Sounds nice , don't forget to keep me posted

And stop reading my minds i was looking at usb fans aswell , i found the thermaltake mobile fan II , that thing is sweet but way too pricey ! will have to go into mcgyver mode myself

 

Haha, i actually have some cheap fans, although i'm not 100% sure they'l fit, and ofc with usb there not nearly as powerful as say, full power units, personally, we should strip as ps3 down, take that whop off fan and stick it in the 725 (Its actually massive lol.)

Off to watch some die hard, back in two or three hours haha.

 

DC powered fan Alright Mcgyver see you later , enjoy the movie

I'll have a look at that ps3 thingy in the meantime

EDIT : http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=472596 ....................................

 

Wow, you know, why didn't we get the mxm 3.0 option :/

It'd be nice to try and get everything going,

Hows the user already getting these cards to sell though, thats my biggest concern?

 

Don't mention it .... if only we didn't have that primitive 2.1 crap.

Inside man may be

 

Makarov.....
Haha,

Atleast the alienware 4850s work incase ours break lol.

More memory, slightly slower clocked but can be overclocked harder i think.

 

Hopefully we can get one IF needed. With the bullet holes and cooler , everything is possible

When will you start modding ? I'm will try some copper shim before i start cutting stuff off

By the way , does your catalyst version states 10.3 ?

 

Hmm, i'l probably spend a week or so of research, measuring and well general planning of modification hah,

Catalyst showing as 10.1, interesting...

I need some 10.3 love? lol

 

Yeah better planned this one out as spare parts are not that widely available for our 2.1

Mine does not say anything
10.3b been around , have you tried it ? got some BC2 fixes

Here's the link http://sites.amd.com/us/underground/tips/Pages/catalyst-10-3-preview.aspx

 

Lol, anything is better then being on 4850 wddrm ^^.

Hmm, might be worth trying it, BC2 runs good, still stuck with 50-60% core usage though, it refuses to fix, will try a fresh install soon enough though, i am enjoying single player atm .

 

Might pick it up soon if the single player is worth it , not really into multi.

 

I should think that if you delete it, then let Windows re-install it on restart, it should load factory defaults.

 

Dead/Cat

I picked up one from ebay a while back and currently have been dremeling the hell outa it trying to work on buffing the cooling, and for the most part ive gotten load to stay closer to a crispy 81c as apposed to 90c, impressive, however i have discovered that there is more to the cooling plan than expected.

msi hasnt designed the heatsink to the the ONLY way to cool the machine down, and i think why darths idea of putting ramsinks on top of the cooler is so effective, simply put, most of the airflow enters from the two largest grids on the laptop and is pulled across the components doing most of the cooling there, ensuring each componnent is stable, the idea is ingenious because the more sensitive components are cooled first, ie the ram and chipset, and then secondary cooling is applied to the powerhouses, the proc and most importantly the gpu.

I am currently having trouble locating them, but i need to get some of those little coolers that individually are placed on top of the ram chips, worst comes to worst ill just dremel my own. Though the main important thing is finding tape that actually keeps things stuck together, the tape ive gotten from hong kong isnt designed to keep things on top, and i dont want electrically conductive stuff bouncing around in my machine.

 

Hey all, what are the best known new drivers for our 4850? Im using driver packaging 8.712 and 9.7 Catalyst. Didnt know if I was using outdated or the best drivers. Thanks

 

Try http://www.chilledpc.co.uk/shop/
<Or more specifically>
http://www.chilledpc.co.uk/shop/index.php?cPath=117&osCsid=d5db763ad40cfa6ea8796ec7c2bb7f08

If I remember right I bought a load of little ramsinks off them when I was playing around with the cooling on my M17. Akasa also do some more basic little heatsinks which I think a few of the larger shops sell.

Most of these will come with thermally conductive tape already fitted, as they're usually applied direct to RAM chips, and its the exact size of the heatsink base, so unless you have to file it to make it thinner, shouldnt cause many issues.

Still got a load put away in one of my parts drawers, along with some jelly thermal pads etc (I couldn't use the better Enzo ones as they were slightly too tall, and I never got round to filing them down to fit with the level of clearance I had before the machine died ).

The Zalman ones they stock might be better in your case though because of how the fins are designed to bend. The Enzos theoretically should cool better, but may require more work to fit.