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    Toshiba x205-9359 with 8700GT Nvidia

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by gigadigit, Aug 7, 2008.

  1. gigadigit

    gigadigit Notebook Guru

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    Is the 8700 GPU part of the defective GPUs from NVIDIA?

    My notebook crashes when i take it out from sleep, and
    sometimes when I go to an online streaming video site,
    I get an error message saying graphic card driver failed or something like that.
     
  2. KernalPanic

    KernalPanic White Knight

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    Sounds like a driver issue...

    The "defect" in the G84s is a thermal one meaning it would be overheating.

    Given the x205 series' casing and cooling, I somehow doubt that even if they were the defective run, it would matter as even overclocked by 25-30% over 5+ hours of benchmarking gaming I still don't get above 69 degrees C.

    Note, my 8700m GT is revision A2 which the rebranded 8700s (9600m GS) also have. Odds are if you have this revision, you do not have the flaw as its the one they ship as their rebranded 9xxx series.

    Somehow I don't think streaming video would stress it enough to heat it up at all and wake from sleep is pretty typical issue with an improper driver.

    Grab Rivatuner or any other program that will tell you what revision of the G84 you have.

    Check temps... if they are over 69C, you might want to consider blowing out your fan system.

    Check driver and either use the newest one provided by Toshiba, or use one of the Laptopvideo2go ones with their updated inf.