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    Sager 9890

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by ricke9590, Jul 21, 2008.

  1. ricke9590

    ricke9590 Newbie

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    Hey all, new to the forums and I am having a serious problem with my sager I was hoping someone could steer me in the right direction.

    Currently I have a problem with "soft locking", the laptop will lock up at random, but I can still move the mouse. I did find a vid card screw mount broken off the MB, but soldered it back. Also there was a bent pin on the sata cable, fixed that. Here is what I have done

    Swapped/removed all ram
    new harddrive with a fresh install of windows
    resilvered processor and vid card

    I have watched the cpu % just to make sure it isnt a information overload problem, it doesnt seem to be.

    Current stats on the laptop are: 7800GTX, 3.6 pent 4, 3 gigs of ram, 120 gig seagate HD.

    Any help would be much app.

    Also anyone know a good bio flash for this laptop? I would like it to register more than 2.75 gigs of ram. Thanks
     
    ricke9590, Jul 21, 2008
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  2. Levarris

    Levarris Notebook Enthusiast

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    the D900T Motherboard in the 9890 will not show nor allow the use of more than 2.75 gigs of RAM, its based on the limitations of the chipset used that being a Pentium 4 socket 775, and that Windows XP is a 32 bit OS which can not use more than 3 gigs of RAM to begin with, same applies to vista 32 bit.

    Although Vista SP1 will show you 4 gigs of ram if you have that much installed, it will only use 3.

    You could flash the bios as many times as you like, your at your peak potential.

    I got rid of my 9890 two years ago, it was all in all a piece of garbage with a flawed motherboard design.
     
    Levarris, Jul 21, 2008
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  3. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    Also, make sure that your vents are cleaned out to make sure its not overheating.

    Make sure to check for HDD errors (Command Prompt > CHKDSK C: /F)and Memory errors (with MemTest86+)

    A BIOS update might help though.
     
    Gophn, Jul 21, 2008
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