laptop issues - help!

[splintitan]

for some reason (just recently) any game i play in full screen has a big black border as if i want to play in a small screen mode. i tried changing the rez but it seems to be a deeper problem. im using xp pro.
this is driving me nuts and any help would be great.

 

[splintitan]

the boot screen now does the same thing... this is weirding me out. if i put some games in the native rez of the screen it works fine but 1440x900 is too much for some games.

 

[lobbyone]

List your laptop specs. It will give some helpful insights

 

[splintitan]

dell inspiron e1405. upgraded screen, 1.73 dual core, gig ram. everything else pretty standard. i have also been getting a blue screen error with tcpip.sys + 0x0000007A. has somethnig to do with memory allocation (dont see the connection).

thanks

 

[splintitan]

seems like i get the blue screen every few hours no matter what i am doing even in dos the display is small untill i get into windows (after ther boot screen). the onyl program i think i installed and uninstalled at the time was undelete by executive software - http://www.undelete.com/products/undelete.asp
here a pic of the last error: http://img219.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cimg0431ta7.png

hope this helps

 

[lobbyone]

Originally posted by: splintitan
dell inspiron e1405. upgraded screen, 1.73 dual core, gig ram. everything else pretty standard. i have also been getting a blue screen error with tcpip.sys + 0x0000007A. has somethnig to do with memory allocation (dont see the connection).

thanks

IIRC the e1405 has the GMA950 for video, and it takes away memory from your system. So if you have 1024MB of system memory, your integrated graphics will suck up between 64-256MB, don't know the fixed amount but somewhere in that range. What game are you trying to play with that laptop?

 

[splintitan]

rune, and other low graphic games... but the error comes up when i am not playing any games.
how can this be causing the problem?

 

[splintitan]

it doesnt seem to happen as often now but are there any ideas?

 

[ProfessorT]

looks like a bsod, reinstall windows or like the rest of us pray it doesnt happen again.

 

[splintitan]

whats bsod? its has been a long while since i have gotten the error but i also found out that when i reinstalled the graphics driver (it was giving me problems) the did something to the aspec ration which i restored.

praying hard.

 

[Rottie]

Originally posted by: splintitan
whats bsod? its has been a long while since i have gotten the error but i also found out that when i reinstalled the graphics driver (it was giving me problems) the did something to the aspec ration which i restored.

praying hard.

BSOD = Blue Screen Of DEATH often you seen full blue screen with errors.

 

[splintitan]

o, i didnt know the shortened version of it. in that case ProfessorT, of course its an BSOD!

these guys know how to sneek up on you...

 

[splintitan]

could still use some help. only after i have been getting the blue screen blade of darkness plays at realy low frame rates which makes it play real fast and choppy. when i quit i get a bMEM_BAD_POINTER error... any suggestions?

 

[jlshaw]

hmm...I don't now much, but I have had a similar problem on my desktop, the BSOD. It turned out to be a memory problem, and I RMA'd the stick of ram back to Newegg. They replaced it, and everything is going fine.

How new/old is your laptop? I'm running a similar config on my E1505, except I have the upgraded video card. No prob's running anything on my laptop. Hope this gets resolved soon!

 

[splintitan]

i guess it could be the mem, but replacing it will be a pain for a 'maybe'.

 

[splintitan]

bump

 

[splintitan]

seems like the memory is overheating sometimes. i get the blue screen at different instances like normal laptop use and shutting down. should i just replace the memory?

 

[splintitan]

would a shop know what to do?

 

[marulee]

Did you re-install the graphic driver? Using any tweak?

 

[tommytran]

Your BIOS should have an option to enable expand view when you run it under lower than default resolution. Once you change the option, things should get back to full screen.

 

[splintitan]

the resolution isnt the problem anymore, its the blue screen. which is apparantly a memory issue.

 

[Freejack2]

If you think it's the memory try running Memtest86 for several hours on it. You can get it at http://www.memtest86.com/

Your screenshot says tcpip.sys was the cause of that crash, is it always tcpip.sys?

 

[splintitan]

rarely when shutting down i will get a diff blue screen. otherwise its the same.

i think i need a disket drive to test with this...

 

[splintitan]

i used memtest (overnight) and found no errors.
any other ideas?

 

[ineedaname]

Have you checked your temps and maybe try an orthos overnight test?

Just look up orthos or sp2004 in google u'll find a the dl.

like some1 said earlier maybe try reinstalling windows.

Also even though your memory is ok it's possible that some program has a memory leak causing u 2 do a memory dump for the blue screen.

Maybe try using ctrl+alt+del and in the processes tab check it ever 5 min or so to see if there's a program that's slowly eating away all your memory.