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[Akura]

Turned out the graphics card burned out. According to the guy at the repair shop, the card I had(ATI Radeon 4800s) has a tendency to do that. And then he sold me an nVidia card of roughly the same capabilities for $70.

[Sensei]

Turned out the graphics card burned out. According to the guy at the repair shop, the card I had(ATI Radeon 4800s) has a tendency to do that. And then he sold me an nVidia card of roughly the same capabilities for $70.

Y'know, I had the same thing happen with a similar ATI card, only much more dramatically; I had the screen go totally garbled and colorful.

[Sigulbard]

Wouldn't it be more adequate to post your tech problems to a tech oriented forum? TomsHardware, for example.

[Vespulan]

Wouldn't it be more adequate to post your tech problems to a tech oriented forum? TomsHardware, for example.

Shhh, Bay12 has an awesome tech-base

[Aklyon]

Yes, it could be, but some people like asking questions in places they sorta know better instead of making another forum account to ask a question. And theres plenty of people here who know things about computers.

[MaximumZero]

Wouldn't it be more adequate to post your tech problems to a tech oriented forum? TomsHardware, for example.

I tried that. Posted my problem and basically got, "Sucks to be you," as a reply. *shrugs*

[Akura]

Turned out the graphics card burned out. According to the guy at the repair shop, the card I had(ATI Radeon 4800s) has a tendency to do that. And then he sold me an nVidia card of roughly the same capabilities for $70.

Y'know, I had the same thing happen with a similar ATI card, only much more dramatically; I had the screen go totally garbled and colorful.

Actually, that's how my problem started. It did that, I restarted, then dead card.

[freeformschooler]

Speaking of graphics cards, I now have this issue and want to make sure it is not a hardware issue. I have a laptop (windows 7) with an integrated ATI Radeon 4250 gfx card. After receiving it from SquareTrade and being told it was "fixed" I am having issues. Any time I watch youtube, every few seconds the screen goes black and then comes back on with a notification that the display driver stopped working and has been recovered. No 3d games will run that I've tested. I tried installing new display adapter drivers through windows update and it didn't help after restarting. I tried installing AMD's CCC drivers manually and it didn't help after restarting. What's the next step?

EDIT: It was an obscure firmware issue. Apparently they screwed with the bios at the service depot. I updated it and it recognized the card properly again. All is working.

EDIT2: Or not. 3d games still won't run and youtube is still giving the problem. Looking into this... I detest graphics card problems.

[Tellemurius]

laptop graphic cards are absoluting the worst especially the old ones. Outdated versions were essentially integrated gpus on the motherboard, Nvidia and ATI left all of the driver updates with the OEM manufacts which never bothered really to update the drivers. try completely removing all of drivers then look for unofficial drivers to install. They may not be designed for your graphics card but with the 4250 probably running on catalyst 11 you will see vast improvement to 12

[freeformschooler]

I think you're right about the catalyst thing, actually: I'll try to downgrade to 11 later on. For the time being, removing Catalyst 12 manually then having windows search for drivers itself seems to have fixed the 3d/youtube problem.

[Tellemurius]

I think you're right about the catalyst thing, actually: I'll try to downgrade to 11 later on. For the time being, removing Catalyst 12 manually then having windows search for drivers itself seems to have fixed the 3d/youtube problem.

ok you are running the default drivers for windows, that should be fine but gaming shouldn't be working...

[foil]

Does the laptop have dual graphics chips?  One for low power usage and one for gaming?

Also never use Windows Updates for drivers, they are usually very out of date and missing 2/3 of the features.

[Tellemurius]

Does the laptop have dual graphics chips?  One for low power usage and one for gaming?

Also never use Windows Updates for drivers, they are usually very out of date and missing 2/3 of the features.

a HD4250 ATI chip? very very doubtful :I

[Lightningfalcon]

Can someone give me a ballpark figure for how much a decent gaming computer would cost?  I don't need it to run Crysis on maximum settings, just be able to play modern games at a decent setting, along with being able to be upgraded as time goes on, since Intel laptops suck at that job.  I'm starting to feel like every time I turn my Xbox on that it's going to die, and due to some recent events I've managed to save up almost 400 bucks, along with finally being able to get semi-unlimited internet access, as long as I stay up REALLY late. 

[Tellemurius]

Can someone give me a ballpark figure for how much a decent gaming computer would cost?  I don't need it to run Crysis on maximum settings, just be able to play modern games at a decent setting, along with being able to be upgraded as time goes on, since Intel laptops suck at that job.  I'm starting to feel like every time I turn my Xbox on that it's going to die, and due to some recent events I've managed to save up almost 400 bucks, along with finally being able to get semi-unlimited internet access, as long as I stay up REALLY late. 

i suggest either the AMD HD 7950 or the nividia ti660 can crank the game around medium and high settings fine (Crytek has once again created another engine of deathwork for computers ). Highly recommended to get quad core for this game as crysis 3 utilizes all cores available. Since money is going to be a issue with this build i suggest going for a full AMD build. Yes their processor sucks for singlethreading but their multithreading is a blast and 8 cores for 200 bucks who the hell is complaining. Since my build was around 750 bucks with a HD7770 prepare to go out of your way of 900 dollars for a Crysis box.