When playing games, her screen will blink twice, it gets laggy as balls, and it blinks again, than everything is cool. Whats wrong with it? :v: . . .
It's a Dell Inspiron laptop, and it's pretty crappy.
UPDATE: Problem solved, battery is dead, flashing is gone, it was getting hot.
Specs? What games are you trying to play? You try a virus scan? Asking "whats wrong with it" when you haven't said anything about the laptop or what you are trying to do isn't going to get anywhere.
[QUOTE=Luleychan;20883619] it's pretty crappy.[/QUOTE]
Problem solved.
Next please.
[QUOTE]It's a Dell Inspiron laptop, [B]and it's pretty crappy.[/B] [/QUOTE]
Bolded part wasn't required.
Also, gaming on integrated graphics is like trying to cut something with a screwdriver.
Well, I don't know shit abotu it except that its crappy. But it turns out it isn't as bad as i thought I just took a look at it.
2gb ram, 1.9 amd dual core. Ati 1290x I think, something around there. I was thinking it was getting hot because the flashing happens when it gets hot. World of Warcraft is the game
Download speccy, run it, and post a screenshot of it. You might also want to get hwmonitor so we can tell if it's overheating, which I suspect it is.
Nice, yeah I felt the bottom of the laptop and it almost burned my hand, she has it resting on this blanket on her bed, told her to just put it on a table and point her fan at it until Facepunch figures something out :D
Also, I ran spybot and caught 43 problems, its spamming trying to change her registry, I have her laptop scanning in safe mode with Avast!, don't know if it'll be fixed afterwards, will post update way later.
[QUOTE=Luleychan;20885165]Well, I don't know shit about it except that its crappy. But it turns out it isn't as bad as i thought I just took a look at it.
2gb ram, 1.9 amd dual core. Ati 1290x I think, something around there. I was thinking it was getting hot because the flashing happens when it gets hot. World of Warcraft is the game[/QUOTE]
It's probably changing resolutions when it flashes.
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Misread. It's probably a driver crash, if you alt tab then windows will probably say something like "windows has recovered from a driver crash" or something.
Never ever put your laptop on a bed, couch, other soft crap.
It will overheat, and if it doesnt it will suck up dust and overheat later.
[QUOTE=taipan;20892601]Never ever put your laptop on a bed, couch, other soft crap.
It will overheat, and if it doesnt it will suck up dust and overheat later.[/QUOTE]
That is exactly what I told her. She says she'll put it on a book. Anywho, I got rid of the malware and made a nice little "Twice-A-Month" folder, for her. Her computer is [I]so[/i] much faster. Still flashing though, I'll reinstall her drivers for graphics and see wassa-goin-on.
Also, run ccleaner, and defragment, and disable all startup items.
[QUOTE=Luleychan;20897037]That is exactly what I told her. She says she'll put it on a book. Anywho, I got rid of the malware and made a nice little "Twice-A-Month" folder, for her. Her computer is [I]so[/i] much faster. Still flashing though, I'll reinstall her drivers for graphics and see wassa-goin-on.[/QUOTE]
It's probably the graphics card overheating. My old VAIO used to do that.
[QUOTE=Luleychan;20885165]
2gb ram, 1.9 amd dual core. Ati 1290x[/QUOTE]
it still sucks
Get a cheap laptop cooling pad from walmart :/
Why does she have a computer in the first place if she knows nothing about it?
[QUOTE=Luleychan;20897037]That is exactly what I told her. She says she'll put it on a book. Anywho, I got rid of the malware and made a nice little "Twice-A-Month" folder, for her. Her computer is [I]so[/i] much faster. Still flashing though, I'll reinstall her drivers for graphics and see wassa-goin-on.[/QUOTE]
Add Malware Bytes to that folder as well. If my mother can use it, I'm pretty sure your sister can too.
[QUOTE=alphaspida;20918933]Why does she have a computer in the first place if she knows nothing about it?[/QUOTE]
Facebook. Thats it. Facebook and her online BF. Thats it.
don't game on it problem solved
[QUOTE=Luleychan;20930645]Facebook. Thats it. Facebook and her online BF. Thats it.[/QUOTE]
ah, what a wonderful world
[QUOTE=Eddiesax;20899814]it still sucks[/QUOTE]
hey, my 2.13ghz single core 1gb ram mobility radeon x600 could run TF2 medium, 30-40 fps.
[QUOTE=ashxu;20934035]hey, my 2.13ghz single core 1gb ram mobility radeon x600 could run TF2 medium, 30-40 fps.[/QUOTE]
What?! I'm at like 50-60 frames at normal, and I've have a 2.9 dual core, 4gb of ram, and a hd 4780! You have to be lying.
[QUOTE=Luleychan;20944989]What?! I'm at like 50-60 frames at normal, and I've have a 2.9 dual core, 4gb of ram, and a hd 4780! You have to be lying.[/QUOTE]
Your CPU could be bottlenecking your shit dawg
[QUOTE=Luleychan;20944989]What?! I'm at like 50-60 frames at normal, and I've have a 2.9 dual core, 4gb of ram, and a hd 4780! You have to be lying.[/QUOTE]
screen res of 800x600, no AA, no bloom
but everything else was on medium
It'd not medium unless you have those things. And just get a cooling pad so that she can have it on her bed.
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