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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Optimus II very high CPU temp + shutdown

    I've had this laptop for 2 years now and recently (past few weeks) while playing games it shuts down by itself unexpectedly. I have started monitoring the temperatures, and when playing games, the CPU temperature stays in between 85-95 degrees. GPU temperature is around 70C. When idle, CPU temp...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Planning to upgrade an Optimus II

    Hello there! I have had this laptop for almost 2 years now and It's starting to show its age in gaming and speed in general. I know that I cannot upgrade the GPU, but I can add 4GB more ram and an SSD. Now here's a few things I am unsure about. RAM - I ran the crucial scanner and it told me...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Very hot AC cable! HELP!

    Hello! I haven't had any problems with my Optimus II 17.3" for over a year now, however recently I have noticed that the AC cable gets extremely hot and I can smell it burning slightly when I take it out of the laptop. The problem is with the end of the cable going in the laptop itself. The...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Laptop touchpad stopped working :(

    I have an Optimus II 17.3" for around 5 months now and it works just fine. Stupid me, today, I accidentally spilled a drink on my laptop's touchpad. I quickly cleaned it off, and the touchpad seemed to be sort of working. I could only move right or left normally, but up and down only moved a...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Connecting Optimus II to a TV.

    Tried today for the first time to connect my Optimus II 17.3" (GT 555M) to a 43" Pioneer 436SXE TV. When I connected the HDMI cable, the laptop screen was automatically displayed on the TV in 1080p. There are two problems. One is that the text is difficult to read - it looks like the image is...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST System freeze and GPU crashing

    My laptop specs: Core i7 2630qm (2.00GHz) GeForce 555M - 2GB 4GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY 500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK I just got Adobe After Effects CS5.5. After using it for about 10 minutes I my system completely froze and I couldn't even move the mouse, so had to hold the power button...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Slow Motion

    Have you done any slow motion editing or recording? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGnnAyYU-oI No, you don't need a super fast PC with a £500 GPU to do this...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST i7 2630QM Temperature...

    Hey! I have a 17.3" Optimus II with a Geforce 555m and an i7 26030QM. When playing a game, the 555m reaches temperatures about 65C and the processor about 70C. Now I was quite shocked when I saw that my CPU temperature is ~85C when rendering a video. Is this normal?! What would be the...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Need help... driver problem!

    I have received my 17.3" Optimus II yesterday (yay!). Installed all the windows updates and some of the drivers from the disc provided with the laptop because it wouldn't let me install others. For the WebCam driver, I get an error saying that the device was not found or it isn't enabled. There...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Going to buy this, but..

    Hi! I'm thinking of buying the Optimus II laptop. I was wondering, how will it compare to the desktop that I also own... Core i7 860 (2.80GHz) 4GB RAM ATI HD 5450 (512MB) 500GB HDD I was trying to research, but I had trouble finding information about the GeForce 555m. So I was wondering how...
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