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    Vaio VPCZ11 getting out of full-screen during fan startup

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by kvnchg, Nov 8, 2010.

  1. kvnchg

    kvnchg Notebook Guru

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    Have this happened to anyone else? Sometime when I open a game such as Starcraft 2(SC2), after like 20 seconds the fans will startup and I would be brought out of SC2 and back to windows. I would usually quickly alt-tab back to SC2 and sometime it would kick me out again after a few seconds, but it would be fine after that.

    This have also happened to me with some video files, ranging from mkv, wmv, and MP4. It just happened to me when I was streaming a flash video. This doesn't happen very often, and usually only during the first time I hear the fans startup after starting windows.

    Anyone have any idea what is going on and if there is a fix?
     
    kvnchg, Nov 8, 2010
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  2. ttran88

    ttran88 Notebook Consultant

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    This has happened to me playing D2 but its not due to the fan. I fixed it by exiting SmartWi Connection Utility. Are you currently using it? You can check by looking at the icons at the bottom near the clock.
     
    ttran88, Nov 8, 2010
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    sometime, windows auto minimize the sc2 windows, and said that the memory is low, then suggest me kill sc2 app. i'm click cancel and the continue to play.
    i have no idea what wrong with windows.
     
    trieudoahong, Nov 9, 2010
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    Yeah, I think I was using it, but it was call VAIO Smart Network. All it does is show this stupid window showing whether my wifi and bluetooth is on. I have exited out of it. Hopefully I won't get kicked out of full-screen again. Thanks for the tip.
     
    kvnchg, Nov 9, 2010
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