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O.P. Dodgy laptop
I have 2 problems with my laptop, so here goes.

1.  My wireless is being weird. I have to disable or exit my firewall for my wireless to connect properly. The main annoyance though, is that the wireless speed keeps dropping to 1.0Mbps every few minutes. It doesn't disconnect (i.e. show the big red X icon in the system tray) but it renders online games, downloading and general internet surfing useless for a few seconds. It's really a problem when playing online games and downloading via bit torrent as I will disconnect from trackers/servers.
What is going on?

2.  My graphics card is fucked. If I don't have the external power supply plugged into my laptop, the VPU will crash every so often leaving me with a crappy laptop display. Only way to reset the display is to restart the laptop. The other important problem is that this will happen when I run a MS Office app (Word, Powerpoint, etc.) I have tried different versions of Office but it still happens
I have changed my graphics drivers but it made no difference. Whats going on?
12-26-2006 01:26 AM
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Dodgy laptop - by Reaper on 12-26-2006 at 01:26 AM
RE: Dodgy laptop - by Kenji on 12-30-2006 at 12:18 AM
RE: Dodgy laptop - by Dr4g0n on 12-30-2006 at 12:25 AM
RE: Dodgy laptop - by _Humphreys on 12-30-2006 at 12:38 AM
RE: Dodgy laptop - by Reaper on 12-30-2006 at 01:38 AM
RE: Dodgy laptop - by nod32 on 12-30-2006 at 03:20 PM
RE: Dodgy laptop - by _Humphreys on 12-30-2006 at 03:48 PM


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