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Graphics Problems

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Lets just go ahead and get this through that I have a Sager 8790 Laptop that I've had for about a year now and has worked fine. The graphics card is a Radeon 9700 Mobility 256MB. I also have 1.25Gigs of RAM and 3.0Ghz Pentium 4. Never had any problems until recently, below the problem is explained better. Thanks in advance for your posts! :)

Alright so here we go...I play a game called World of Warcraft and just recently it has started doing some weird crap. After about 20 minutes of playing my screen will start to flicker and lots of weird shapes and lines of all colors fill the screen. It doesn't crash though, it just does it for about a minute and it will go back to normal again.
Here is a picture of what my graphics look like when it gets really bad. It doesn't always look this terrible but very similiar.

Please post some reasons and answers of why my graphics card is doing this if it is even my graphics card? :confused:
 
Could be overheating and then a fan kicks in causing it to cool back down. Does the problem suddenly appear and then suddenly disappear or does it gradually start to happen, get worse and then gradually go away?
 
one of my dual 7800GT's did that, but it was a bad apple so i sent it back to the manufacturer under warranty :p . But if the problem for you is localized in just the game Wow, could be something in the graphics of the game your gpu isn't capable of processing, although that doesn't sound too likely. You should contact the manufacturer for more info.
 
Hey guys thanks for quick replies.
Could be overheating and then a fan kicks in causing it to cool back down. Does the problem suddenly appear and then suddenly disappear or does it gradually start to happen, get worse and then gradually go away?
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Well the answer to that one Bobzdar is it suddenly appears and will suddenly disappear after about a minute or two.
 
it might be a power problem too, the video card is eating to much power out of his PSU and when it takes a little to many volts or amps for the psu to handle it starts to do that. I would say you see stuff like that happening all the time to people wiht bad overclocks but in your case you probobly never oc'ed ur card. :)
 
I have the solution MUAHAHA, atleast in my case that is. I went to my local Computer + Store and they checked out my laptop and told me I'm in need of thermal paste. Now if you aren't sure where to put on the thermal paste, open up your computer and take off your heatsink and under it will be a square, via: processor. Don't buy the cheap thermal paste because it is known to be conductive. Finding it at any local computer store shouldn't be a problem, but anyways. Take the tube/brush and gently spread it around the square and then screw back in your heatsink and everything else. This worked for me and I figured I would just post a solution incase your having a similiar problem. Anyways, thanks for the replies to my early on questions.
 
-_- . . . my friend we need to have a chat. Well at least with your manufacturer, because if they didn't sell you your laptop with thermal paste installed on the processor, well. . . whoever built the system was an F'ing retard. I usually use Arctic Silver, gets the job done decently well.
 
board2death986 said:
-_- . . . my friend we need to have a chat. Well at least with your manufacturer, because if they didn't sell you your laptop with thermal paste installed on the processor, well. . . whoever built the system was an F'ing retard. I usually use Arctic Silver, gets the job done decently well.
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Who the hell wouldn't sell any processor of any sort without thermal paste if it came with a heatsink? what kind of idiot does that? I agree with you, lol. Anyway, sounds like a heating problem. But you gotta tell us more than just askin a question and leavin this forum.
 
board2death986 said:
-_- . . . my friend we need to have a chat. Well at least with your manufacturer, because if they didn't sell you your laptop with thermal paste installed on the processor, well. . . whoever built the system was an F'ing retard. I usually use Arctic Silver, gets the job done decently well.
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Who the hell wouldn't sell any processor of any sort without thermal paste if it came with a heatsink? what kind of idiot does that? I agree with you, lol. Anyway, sounds like a heating problem. But you gotta tell us more than just askin a question with a vague description and not say any more about it
 
Yes that's overheating... I've been having the same problem with almost the same type of graphics card. You might have to replace the fan... that's what I'm going to try lol... sucks doesn't it lol...

StealthyFish said:
Who the hell wouldn't sell any processor of any sort without thermal paste if it came with a heatsink? what kind of idiot does that? I agree with you, lol. Anyway, sounds like a heating problem. But you gotta tell us more than just askin a question with a vague description and not say any more about it
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Yes, umm i had to add some Artic Silver to my laptop because of the same problems this guy is having... it really sux. I'm not at all impressed with the 9700 series mobility cards...

Might wanna try a coolant pad too, I found out that helps circulate air.
 
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