Graphics issues on laptop.

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ziggyL

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Small black pixels appear when going through windows aero, screen flashes often when watching video and I have been getting the "ati radeon family driver stopped responding and has recovered" message alot on my laptop lately. The laptop is a Toshiba L500 with the HD5145 graphics card. Just bought it a month ago.

I've noticed that setting the video card settings in power options to "maximize battery life" seem to fix the problem. But thats just a temporary solution. I don't think it's overheating, because it happens as soon as the PC is turned on, if it's in 'max performance' mode.

Anyone got a solution for this?

Cheers,
ZiggyL
 
This happens on my dad's old sony vaio laptop with an nvidia card... you running from battery by any chance?

I'd say it's faulty.
 
I'm starting to think it's a windows problem. Because I can still play games while in maximum battery life mode... I don't think there's actually a difference in performance.
 
I don't know. Any heat-monitoring software I've tried shows only the CPU temp. which doesnt go much over 40c. Can't feel anything really hot if i put my hand under it while playing something though.

But there are no problems after playing games, it's as soon as I set ATI Powerplay to maximum performance it starts crashing.
 
ziggyL said:
I don't know. Any heat-monitoring software I've tried shows only the CPU temp. which doesnt go much over 40c. Can't feel anything really hot if i put my hand under it while playing something though.

But there are no problems after playing games, it's as soon as I set ATI Powerplay to maximum performance it starts crashing.
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try GPU-Z, it gives GPU temperatures...and about that problem---try a BIOS update...
 
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heres a picture of GPU-Z readings. noticed-the core clocks go way up when artifacts appear... seems like maximum battery life mode limits it to 300mhz. thats why it doesn't crash that way.

updated BIOS.-doesn't make a difference.
 
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In the power saving settings, it underclocks the card, hence the stability. When your card is being used to its full potential, it produces artifacts right? This is what I've got from it so far. This unfortunately means your card is bad, as it is no longer stable at its stock clock settings. The only other option could be that when run at full clocks it heats up real fast, causing the instability. The best suggestion I can offer at this point is probably get it fixed under warranty. If its only a month old that should be a relatively hassle free process.
 
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