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need help with Nvidia GeForce 9300m G
I recently picked up a second hand notebook a few days ago. I purchased it from a second hand notebook store and they clean installed windows 7 onto it.
The guy at the store said he wasn't sure if he installed the right graphic card drivers and considering the fact it rebooted itself and switched into 16 colour mode the first time I used it; I'd presume he was right.
As far as I can tell the problem is purely around the Nvidia Geforce 9300m G... I tried a few different drivers for it from the Nvidia website, but they all did the same thing. I then tried looking up drivers more specifically for the ASUS brand F6S Model notebook, but unfortunately the only specifically made drivers I could find were Vista drivers.
What happens exactly is:
Every time I run any 3d excelerated software where things are detailed (my old openGL tests work fine), it goes from being completely smooth to freezing the computer... the fan (the fan on the graphics card; I presume) then speeds up alot... It either stays frozen until reset or it reboots itself...
I then have to use the "repair windows" option on startup so it doesn't go back into 16 colour mode.
I really have no clue what to do... I don't know if it's drivers, incorrect bios configuration, if it was accidently overclocked in store (directX 11 claims it has approx. 1521mbs of total memory when it's only a 512mb card )
If anyone could help me, I'd be very thankful... this is really stressing me out.
Some specs:
ASUS model F6S notebook
3 gig ram
2.50 ghz processor
Nvidia Geforce 9300m G graphics card