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    X205-S9349 Busted Graphics Card???

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by MooMetal, Feb 1, 2009.

  1. MooMetal

    MooMetal Notebook Guru

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    I've had my Toshiba Satellite X205-S9349 with a 8700m GT, with 179.28 official drivers from nVidia, for about 10 months now, it's still under warrantly, i have about 1 year and 2 months left.

    I first noticed the problem when i played Mass Effect, a few months ago i could run the game fine but lately it would crash and give me weird artifacts, here is a screenshot of a extreme one, there were also mild ones but i didn't get a screenshot:
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    To fix this i would just quit the game and start the game again and if will be fine for awhile.

    At first i thought it was just Mass Effect so i decided to give GTA IV a shot and after about 10 min the whole screen had a red overlay.

    This happened in XP so i tried Mass Effect in Vista and everything has been fine until last night i got this error while playing Mu Online:
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    These errors seems to go away after i reboot my laptop but will eventually come again.

    So is this a busted graphics card and should i wait for it to get worse before i give it back as i probably can't prove it's the cards problem yet as the problems aren't frequent enough or should i return it as soon as possible?
     
    MooMetal, Feb 1, 2009
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  2. JosePerez

    JosePerez Notebook Evangelist

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    Check temps (HWMonitor or Rivatuner works)... If they are in a normal range (up to 80C max) check with other drivers... If the problem persist, contacting toshiba is the best you could do...
     
    JosePerez, Feb 2, 2009
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  3. MooMetal

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    When i first got this laptop the graphics card would hit around 80C ish and above and over time it's gone up to 90C and the highest is 110C so i undervolted the cpu becuase i think the cpu and gpu are sharing the heat sink and now the graphics card never goes above 75C.

    Maybe it's a driver problem?
    Since nVidia just started making drivers available to all notebooks instead of having to download from the laptop manufacturers and the one out is currently beta. Maybe ... just maybe ... well hoping lol
     
    MooMetal, Feb 2, 2009
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    110C IS TOO HIGH... Did you ever clean your laptopn vents? If no, maybe that's the problem... Buy a can of compressed air and clean those vents... The max it should be going is 95C... There's no need to undervolt to prevent reaching the 100C mark... Maybe the card got damaged due to those high temps...
     
    JosePerez, Feb 3, 2009
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    I've cleaned the vents, but that didn't do much so i undervolted and now it stays around the 70 mark, so maybe the card got damaged when it was around 100degrees months ago?
     
    MooMetal, Feb 3, 2009
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