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Just buy a new graphics card - they sell on on ebay for around 70$ - then the issue will be solved once and for all

Quote from: deluxe on July 22, 2006, 08:41:24 PM

Right now I'm using "PowerStrip" to tweak the monitor settings so that I have a proper 1280x800 display on my x1000.  PowerStrip has the ability to write the correct monitor settings to the registry, but I haven't had any luck getting it to write the correct settings yet, so my display is still slightly garbled until PowerStrip loads up itself makes the proper settings for my built-in LCD.

I've submitted a report to Microsoft about the problem, and expect them to lean heavily on ATI to address the issue.  The monitor support was there before, and it can be there again, it's just going to take Microsoft calling up ATI and saying, "get your act together.  Vista needs to ship with ATI drivers that recognize all of your crappy mislabeled hardware".

Would Powerstrip also work with a wuxga display? - that might make me try for it again.

I'm really angry with ATI for not supporting their older products. I mean - I bought the damn thing not more than a year ago and now they don't support it any more. That is really annoying. As far as i can tell the oldest version of Mobility Radeon that they support with Vista is the 9550. I'll try to report the problem to MS as well - the more people that do this the higher the posibility of them calling up ATI and telling them to do something about the problem.

Ok so my solution with changing the thermal pad didn't work. In stead I tried out the solution that alanward presents in this thread and it seems to be working - Actually it was'nt too hard - I took about an hours work or so.

I also installed the Omega Drivers, but it seems that I'm unable to underclock it to anymore than 200 mhz. I am using the feature called "overclocking settings" in the "hardware" tab in ATI tray tools - it was the only place i could find, but if there is another way to do it I would like to hear about it.

Cheers

Quote from: romeon on June 12, 2006, 03:40:21 PM
Remember, most of the time the black screen appears, the laptop was just powered on and therefore cold. .
-> Maybe they had to fix the newer cards, because the chips on the older ones got "loose" after months/years of transport and using the laptop.
-> Maybe the contact between gpu and card module is fixed again (temporarily) after pressing 6,7,Y

I compeletely agree and I have also tested it - when I push the GPU back in it's socket, my laptop will work just fine until the GPU grows hot and warps out of it's socket. Now the thing needed is to keep the processor in place - a new processor is probably fixed properly in the socket, but this worsens with age, so to keep it in place I will try to mount some new thermalpads that I bought off ebay for cheap. They should arrive in a week or so and then I'll retur with a progress update - I'll also take pictures during the install - If it proves successful I'll post them here at this Forum so that others might benefit for this (low cost) solution.

I used som WD40 to good effect - the important thing is to cover the rest of the laptop with tissue or paper and then carefully applying a small ammount.

QuoteAs for $100 for a video card that might not even fix the problem...

I kindda agree - I think that the real problem is that the Thermalpad that is supposed to conduct heat between the gpu and the heatsink melts/goes bad after around two years. This would mean that the gpu will go hotter and the pressure applied by the thermalpad to keep the gpu in place is also lessened.

So perhaps the real solution is to replace the heatsink and thermalpad. This is a way cheaper solution - I saw such a set on Ebay for 5$ - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6882324202&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

I don't know if it will work, but i think that i'm gonna try it out - for the moment my x1000 will only work with the keybord unmounted or the gpu will grow too hot!

That sounds good - I've already been "under the hood" earlier on just to have a look. so I think that the upgrade should be pretty easy.
Thanks for theh ansver

I'll second that! - I was devastated when i found out that the original x1000 forums were hacked - The forums were actually one of the main reasons that i bought an x1000 since there was so much knowledge and support readily at hand.

So I'm really happy that the new forums are up and running, since it really is the best place on the web to get good info on your beloved lappy

I'm thinking about upgrading my memory from the current 2*256 Mb to 2*1Gb - I don't really know if this is possible, so my question is if the motherboard supports the 1Gb sticks?

Also - the reson why i'm thinking about it is that I have gotten a great offer on 2Gb's of ram - The ram sticks are called  1GB Kingston PC3200 200pin - will this work with my X1015?

Thanks

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