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    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Vitor711, Dec 13, 2010.

  1. Vitor711

    Vitor711 Notebook Evangelist

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    So I had a grey screen of death once or twice over the last few weeks, followed by the screen flickering and displaying a gradient of pulsating, thick grey bars earlier today, with the bottom half of the screen blacked out and unable to click on anything.

    Any ideas what's wrong? Laptop is relatively new and I take decent care of it. Have been travelling a lot recently though and have very, very little HDD space left. Pretty sure that can't be the cause though, right?
     
    Vitor711, Dec 13, 2010
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    DboogieC Notebook Deity

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    Ive only heard of these problems on the ATI Radeon HD 5xxx series. and the fix was to make adjustments to the idle clocks.
     
    DboogieC, Dec 14, 2010
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    Try a newer / different driver. Check first on the website of your notebook manufacturerer. Also try the latest from nvidias homepage if it doesn't work with the other one.

    HDD shouldn't cause this issue. I once had a similar problem, screen going black or pink (eek ^^) and it was a driver issue.
     
    svl7, Dec 14, 2010
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  4. Vitor711

    Vitor711 Notebook Evangelist

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    Also now have a window's warning saying that I should consider replacing the battery - without being plugged in, it runs out of juice distressingly quickly and will occasionally just shut off instantly without any power down screens or warning messages.

    Yesterday, it refused to start up and all I saw was a flashing underscore in the top left corner...
     
    Vitor711, Mar 17, 2011
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    Stop errors can be caused by different things: Resolving stop (blue screen) errors in Windows 7

    The most popular solution is to try a system restore. I would try that and see if you're still having the same issues.

    -- Ryan
    Windows Outreach Team
     
    w7pro, Mar 17, 2011
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    sama98b Notebook Evangelist

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    Typical m$ rep forum posts .. worth as much as used toilet paper.

    Ontopic: Buy new battery (check the old ones capacity first), try different versions of video drivers, downclock the gpu/vram,
    if those can't fix it then hardware going bad.dead .. time for warranty repair or buy new one ..
     
    sama98b, Mar 17, 2011
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  7. Vitor711

    Vitor711 Notebook Evangelist

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    I would really hope not - this thing's barely a year old as of March.

    Just tried refreshing to latest drivers for GPU but am now having heat problems - FPS plummets to about a third of what it was randomly and the GPU is at about 80 degrees Celsius, barely went above 60/70 before.

    Need to have my parents send me a new HDD to slot in the second, currently empty, bay and do a fresh install. Ugh, Hope it's not Hardware going bad otherwise I'm going to be pissed.
     
    Vitor711, Mar 19, 2011
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