The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Powermizer - screen artefacts or fan noise?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by calsan, Dec 21, 2010.

  1. calsan

    calsan Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    14
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I have a m570u with a quadro fx2500m.
    I'm using the nvidia drivers from the clevo website:

    nVIDIA VGA driver for Windows XP (without DirectX files), to support G71GLM-UU VGA card
    8.6.1.4 25020 2006/11/2

    The problem I have is that setting powermizer to performance makes the small noisy fan run non-stop with an annoying high pitch.
    Setting powermizer to balanced or low produces a worm farm full of artefacting and dropped frames. 2cm long wiggly artefacts even appear all over the desktop with no running programs.

    The computer is completely cleaned out and dust free and running on a notebook cooler.

    So I can either have a noisy computer or an unreadable one.
    I imagine that there is a better driver available, but can't find anything on nvidia's site or clevo's site. :confused:
    Any help appreciated!!!
    Thank you
     
    calsan, Dec 21, 2010
    #1