Crashing laptop

[Gabriel_Knight]

Last night for some reason, while playing a very graphically unintense game, my laptop froze up and all of these interesting little designs came across my screen. So I figured it was just a crash, although it had never happened before. So, I restarted and it happened again, with all these staticky-looking lines running down my screen. 3 more times, the same thing happened. So, I left it overnight to cool down and I'm on it now with it unplugged and in BatterySaving mode, so it doesn't use the full processor power. Any idea what's going on? I've run this thing on full power with much more graphically intense games and it's gotten much hotter than this before, but has never crashed. If you check my other posts, this thing get into the 90+ degrees Celsius, then again, SpeedFan shows 4 stats, HD0, Temp, Core1, Core 2. Usually, it's Temp that gets to the high temps, but I'm not sure which one matters. Thanks as usual.

[Gabriel_Knight]

SpeedFan Core1 and 2 are at 80+C running Virus Scanner...

[Broni]

If you check my other posts

What other posts?

Please, post some computer info:
- processor type, amount of RAM (hold Windows key, hit Pause/Break key)
- hard drive size/free space (open "My Computer", right click on hard drive letter, click "Properties")

80C is hot. Did you clean all vents? Did you try to elevate laptop?

[Gabriel_Knight]

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System Information
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Time of this report: 11/28/2008, 16:07:06
       Machine name: DRAGOON
   Operating System: Windows Vista™ Ultimate (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080917-1612)
           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
       System Model: G2P                 
               BIOS: Default System BIOS
          Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7200  @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
             Memory: 2046MB RAM
          Page File: 1054MB used, 3281MB available
        Windows Dir: C:\Windows
    DirectX Version: DirectX 10
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
     DxDiag Version: 6.00.6001.18000 32bit Unicode

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Display Devices
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        Card name: ATI Mobility Radeon X1700
     Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
        Chip type: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x71D5)
         DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
       Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_71D5&SUBSYS_12421043&REV_00
   Display Memory: 1278 MB
 Dedicated Memory: 510 MB
    Shared Memory: 767 MB
     Current Mode: 1440 x 900 (32 bit) (60Hz)
          Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
      Driver Name: atiumdag.dll,atiumdva.dat,atitmmxx.dll
   Driver Version: 7.14.0010.0487 (English)
      DDI Version: 9Ex
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
 Driver Date/Size: 3/6/2007 21:42:58, 2762752 bytes
      WHQL Logo'd: Yes
  WHQL Date Stamp:
Device Identifier: {D7B71EE2-3295-11CF-1472-4832A1C2CA35}
        Vendor ID: 0x1002
        Device ID: 0x71D5
        SubSys ID: 0x12421043
      Revision ID: 0x0000
      Revision ID: 0x0000
      Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_C
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     DDraw Status: Enabled
       D3D Status: Enabled
       AGP Status: Enabled

[Broni]

Did you clean all vents? Did you try to elevate laptop?

Laptop still under warranty?

Max. temp for your processor is listed at 100C, but 80C is still hot.

[Gabriel_Knight]

I'm not sure if it's still under warranty. It says 24M on the bottom of the laptop under warranty so I assume that means that it has a two year warranty (duh.) However, I bought this laptop online from a website, so I don't know whether or not it's the website warranty or the manufacturer warranty.

[Broni]

It'd definitely be worth to check, since heat issue on laptop is not easy to deal with.

[Gabriel_Knight]

Was good for a couple of days, was able to play some games with no problems. Again, today I was just surfing the web and it did the same thing. It wouldn't even start up, it would power up, but wouldn't show any graphics. So is my graphics card going? This laptop has had heat problems since I've had it, I just figured, well it's a gaming laptop, it's supposed to get hot. Just that now it seems like the heat is really damaging it.

[Broni]

I can't advice you anything else beside what I already said.

[Gabriel_Knight]

Do I contact the manufacturer or the website that I bought it from? This sucks, two weeks before finals >_<

[Broni]

Yeah, check the website. It may have some warranty info.

This laptop has had heat problems since I've had it

You can't blame anyone else...