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Old 04-11-2009, 12:34 PM
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Well, my 3yr old laptop sucks, but it is also my gaming console. Recently, I gotten Left4Dead and TeamFotress 2. Ocassionally they would crash my PC and I have to restart. Yesterday was the worse. It crashed like 5 times. I got mad, got my lazy butt online to search for a new video driver. The Video Driver not only made my Graphics better, IT also didn't crash any of my games. I don't know if this is associated but, the malware I had isn't as serious as before, no more random pop-ups. IF YOUR GAMES KEEP CRASHING, YOUR VIDEO DRIVER MAY BE OUTDATED If you can't find any official video drivers like I did, I just went and searched up a user-made video driver, it worked exeptional. (remember to check if it's compatible first)
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Old 04-11-2009, 02:53 PM
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It might not be a video driver, maybe a simple processor problem (which really isnt simple). I have the same problem, rarely, but it does happen, and guess what this is basicly a new computer. Since you have a laptop, more likely it will cost alot of money to get it replaced. Just make sure you have alot of room on your hard drive before you go out and spend more than $100. on a all new stuff like a processor or video driver, and graphics card.
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Nothing wrong with processor. no crashes or lag anymore.
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That's just sloboi talking about thin air and contradicting himself.
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That's just sloboi talking about thin air and contradicting himself.
sorry tex i do not know if i have a right to say this but okay, Is this really neccesary. this argument? all i know is it is unneccesary in the forums if i were you two i would take it to pms. Just to keep xms clean ya know.
but like i said what do i know i have only been on since dec.
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Totally, he's going to come in with a post, responding to something he knows very little about, spout off something, then totally contradict that statement, and then rant on some more useless jazz.
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My 2 cents: edit your startup items to kill off everything that you don't need off-the-bat. I'll second driver updates if you're using new software that requires such. Partition your HD such that Windows has its own 15-20 gig section and never install ANYTHING in there but windows updates and other related items. Lastly, get Comodo firewall w/ Avira anti-virus, both free, because they actually do something. Lastly, get plenty of ram unless you have it already.
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And be sure to get the latest patches for the games as well. Sometimes the first edition of a video game has a few bugs that cause it to crash... or worse.
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Yea, that happened with my new game, GTA San Andreas, it happened to be the second edition, and I couldnt do anything to it, and it was kinda slow. As soon as I downloaded the downgrade patch for it, it ran kinda better, and it didnt freeze as much as it did before. Good info AJ, I forgot all about it.
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Since you have a laptop, more likely it will cost alot of money to get it replaced
It's extremely easy to replace a laptop processor, by the way.
For both of my laptops, it's a matter of 2 screws.
One holding the plastic cover that goes on the bottom of the laptop, and one physically holding the processor in.

It wouldn't take a lot of money to physically replace it, but processors themselves can cost anywhere from ~$35 to ~$150 (for a notebook. PC's can be more expensive, because PC's can handle more powerful processors, such as the Quad processor...)

But, anyway, I'm not trying to start an argument or anything, I'm just saying, the fact that it is a laptop has nothing to do it costing more the replace.
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Well, it all depeneds on the model and if its one of the newer ones, because all the newer ones are so compact. I've never opened a newer one, because I was affraid of breaking a part on a brand new computer, thats kinda why I worked mostly with the older computers from like 2005. I can tell you one thing, it will cost more to replace something wrong with a new laptop than a new desktop computer, because desktop computers have way more space than the new tiny compact ones. Go to a computer store, and ask the manager if it would cost more to repalce something in a new laptop thn a new desktop (like 2008 or 2009 computers).

I havent worked at a computer store for prolly more than a year, but I still hold most of the knowledge for the future, so I dont pay somebody to do a small job like replace the hard drive, RAM, stuff like that.
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Well, it all depeneds on the model and if its one of the newer ones, because all the newer ones are so compact. I've never opened a newer one, because I was affraid of breaking a part on a brand new computer, thats kinda why I worked mostly with the older computers from like 2005. I can tell you one thing, it will cost more to replace something wrong with a new laptop than a new desktop computer, because desktop computers have way more space than the new tiny compact ones. Go to a computer store, and ask the manager if it would cost more to repalce something in a new laptop thn a new desktop (like 2008 or 2009 computers).

I havent worked at a computer store for prolly more than a year, but I still hold most of the knowledge for the future, so I dont pay somebody to do a small job like replace the hard drive, RAM, stuff like that.
Naw, really? (I had to, that was pretty funny).

And who said the computer store managers know a **** or two about anything they sell? LOL coughbestbuy&circuitcitycough
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