Solved Display Settings Changing

[Patonb]

Nope.. If you don't play games thats fine... No need to load out the video card if you don't do it.. It'll just show how hot it gets when maxed out. But you aren't doing this.

The program i posted will, test your video card for errors. It was made to check how the card performs math, which relates to how it displays things on screen. Errors there mean errors displaying.

If it is heat damaged, its a gonner, 90% of laptops you can't replace the video card as its solder on the board. If you can fix it and live with the daily fixing, leave it alone.

The damage is caused by bad soldering and as it heats and cools, the joints break.

Hope I'm wrong and it smartens up with a driver issue, but it is a possibility its damaged hardware.

 

[tufa4311]

so I ran memtestg80 but after I input the two speeds it asked for the prompt just disappeared. Does it produce a test result doc or something?

 

[Patonb]

Did you run it from a cmd window?

Sorry forgot to tell you that it needs to get run from the old msdos type window.

winkey + r then type cmd then go and run the program...

 

[tufa4311]

OK, it gave me: "Unable to allocate 128 MiB of GPU memory to test, bailing!"

Task Manager stats before running memtestg80:
Memory: using 1.16GB of 2GB
Physical Memory:
total: 2045
Cached: 1010
free: 20

Kernal Memory:
total: 203
paged: 125
nonpaged: 77

Do you see any reason why it wouldn't be able to get the memory it needs to run?

 

[Patonb]

Yup, its broken... The memory on the video card is dying. Thats the memory its testing not the ram in your computer. Think of a video card as a computer itself, with your main computer cpu and memory as the person thats typing the keys to give it information.

But try running memtestg80 a few times to ensure it wasn't a fluke.

 

[tufa4311]

Ran it again today, same failed result. Video cards have memory eh, news to me....so, how does memory "die"? Isn't memory just memory in meg's or gig's and is just always there (used or unsused, but still there?).

Next, if indeed this is the issue, what's the solution? New video card and viola, everythings fixed? (:

 

[Patonb]

Yha all video cards have memory... and it will go bad as all elecgronics does. Even the memory in your computer can go bad, but due to the video card being hotter, it happens faster.

Sadly, you have a laptop, and the only way to change it is by getting a new motherboard.... So its not that easy.

You're probably out of warrentee eh? There's not much you can do, so as I said earlier.... if you can manually fix it each time... that might be your best option.

Sorry.

 

[tufa4311]

Alrighty then..

Patonb / Richc46 - both your help was appreciated.

 

[tufa4311]

OK, so was having the issue of colors changing to 8 bit from 32 bit on start up. Finally today I found out why that was still happening: Windows Live Messenger, which runs on start up, had its properties on the Compatibility tab set to "Run in 256 colors", which I believe means 8-bit. After un-checking this setting and rebooting it no longer changes changes color to 8-bit on start up...I think ultimately there was a number of issues that were updated/corrected as noted in my previous posts in this thread.

 

[Patonb]

Thanks for the update, glad youre sorted out.