ati x1400

skizofrenic

sorry in advance for my english.

and i know, it's my fault. i bought a notebook.

my amilo pi 1536 has an ati x1400 ( 512 mb 128 onboard).
everything ok since two week ago.
no program or other driver installed. and that's what i see durin games (in this case during benchmark 2006, and only with this video).
http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/8412/immaginehm4.jpg
on other forum they say that this video test vertex shader.....

i tryed all omega video and with them i have less problem, (v 2.6.75a and .net framework 1.1 installed).
but the problem is:
is this a software problem or hardware?
tnx man

Dyre Straits

Greetings and welcome to Driverheaven.

There is no need to apologize for your English. I understood you just fine.

The problem you see often happens when the card is overheating due to overclocking or other heat creating settings -- like overclocking and lack of airflow.

Try this: Place your notebook onto a raised area so that the air can easily flow beneath it. It needs to be raised about as high as the thickness of a DVD case. If you have handy a cooling rack on which bakery is placed to cool after baking, use one of those...or something similar.

Try the benchmark again and see if the same thing happens. If not, then it's definitely a heat issue and you need to work on better airflow/cooling for you notebook. Don't place it on a solid surface with a table cloth or other soft material beneath it. This is something to do even if the problem still occurs.

Let's see if the heat issue can be eliminated and how it affects the problem before we try other steps.

Good luck. Post back soon.

PS There's a good guide on video related problems and their causes here:

http://www.playtool.com/pages/artifacts/artifacts.html

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skizofrenic

tnx man. tonight i 'll try that but just to be honest i use under my notebook one of that "notebook coler" made by coolermaster...... btw i 'll try it for sure.
hey if i have to play in a freezer ther's no problem.
i just wanna play

btw, man tnx!!!! great guide.
i posted on italian forum for week and no interesting suggestion.
italian do it better......not true

skizofrenic

ok. probably i found the problem.
tested ram, everything is ok.
installed atitool and downcloked the gpu.
hey i played 25 minutes without any error (ok, i have to test something, letters on screen are not perfect and sometimes have smooth effect) but now i can play
the problem was that the original setting of ati x1400 are for 2D use, but hey i don' t wanna work tnx man for your help . c ya soon

Dyre Straits

Let us know if things continue to work well.

Good luck!

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skizofrenic

well, this weekend i will try max core and memory frequency i can use, and which diver version is better (at least to play with lineage2)