Sekter

Hey everyone, thanks in advance for any support or suggestions. Ill get right to it....been dealing with this issue since November of 08. When playing games, or doing something that is graphic intensive (more than movies) in intervals of about 5 or so seconds the computer locks up for a split second. Only the video though, not sound. It has rendered playing any game (even browser based Quake Live) unplayable.

It's not a heat issue, and I have tried many drivers, I've completely formatted, reformatted, fresh windows xp and 7 installs, old drivers, new drivers, kept notebook cooler than usual, fans up, cleaned out dust from fan and heatsync, it seems whatever I try...the spike persists. Its not so noticeable in an mmo such as WoW...but any fps or such game is unplayable, every couple of seconds I just lock up.

I have an hp dv8300 cto, 2ghz centrino duo, 2 gigs of ram, 5400 rpm hp harddrive, nvidia geforce go 7600, currently on windows 7 ultimate which runs fine. The problem started back on XP still, so it's not the windows because I've tried both. My only guesses now are that it's a hardware issue...could the onboard gpu just be giving in? Thanks for any support, and let me know if I can answer anything else to help. hope to hear from ya

TriggerFinger

Yes it could be hardware. About your GPU giving in, I really cannot say because I do not know how this model performs when graphics apps or games are run. What is common to almost all laptops is that they do not perform well in these areas. May be those high end entertainment laptops will do a good job but for the others... I really doubt.