I'm having a problem with my laptop, it keeps freezing at random times, but only when browsing the web, watching a video, working with an app like photoshop & listening to music on itunes. Those are the only situations that it has chosen to freeze in.
It used to give me bsod's about pci.sys. But they stopped and now when it locks up I get either;
a dark red screen with black bits, a flashing red screen, a flashing blue screen, a pink screen & a bright red screen.
I red that the 8800m gtx can fail, so yesterday I baked it in the oven like the info on the web says, btw it still worked before the bake and still worked after (I just thought it might of been worth a try) I ran EFLC after I had put it all back together and it ran fine, no nosie, over heating or artifacts. (because for some reason, playing games doesn't make the machine freeze) Just like before.
Then I went and did some browsing, I saw some video on gamespot that I was interested in and clicked play and then the screen with blue and started flashing....
other things to mention are the cpu and wireless card in my laptop are both engineering samples, something which the chap who sold it to me forgot to mention. Anyway I've had it 8 months and it only started acting up around 1 month ago. I also noticed a small black area on the screen after testing the video card, which wasn't there before. Doesn't look like dead pixels, any idea what it could be?
I'm just at a loss on why it keeps freezing, I've ran out of ideas for now. I have put fresh thermal paste on both the cpu & gpu.
Oh and the first freeze after I put the machine back together happened when I tried loading everest, the 2nd attempt (after a reboot worked).
It used to give me bsod's about pci.sys. But they stopped and now when it locks up I get either;
a dark red screen with black bits, a flashing red screen, a flashing blue screen, a pink screen & a bright red screen.
I red that the 8800m gtx can fail, so yesterday I baked it in the oven like the info on the web says, btw it still worked before the bake and still worked after (I just thought it might of been worth a try) I ran EFLC after I had put it all back together and it ran fine, no nosie, over heating or artifacts. (because for some reason, playing games doesn't make the machine freeze) Just like before.
Then I went and did some browsing, I saw some video on gamespot that I was interested in and clicked play and then the screen with blue and started flashing....
other things to mention are the cpu and wireless card in my laptop are both engineering samples, something which the chap who sold it to me forgot to mention. Anyway I've had it 8 months and it only started acting up around 1 month ago. I also noticed a small black area on the screen after testing the video card, which wasn't there before. Doesn't look like dead pixels, any idea what it could be?
I'm just at a loss on why it keeps freezing, I've ran out of ideas for now. I have put fresh thermal paste on both the cpu & gpu.
Oh and the first freeze after I put the machine back together happened when I tried loading everest, the 2nd attempt (after a reboot worked).