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Hey all,
I purchased my laptop a year and half ago with and it has largely been functioning fine but there have been a few problems that I have been unable to fix, I don't think they are related but I'm not the most technically competent person so yeah.
1) I have been occasionally (about once a week) getting an error message on log-in stating "system needs to be restarted - Make sure all Driver installed" - this is commonly attributed to a problem with the hotkey drivers, I have downloaded the latest driver from Clevo (version 3.3044) but this morning the message occurred again. I don't think this is impacting my laptop but I've been wrong before....
2) I have had a lot of problems with my optimus tech and getting games to use the high performance graphics card, such as Napoleon Total War and the Witcher (both of which I did find fixes for online), and most recently Skyrim. I have tried whitelisting (both the launcher and the tevs.exe file) but Skyrim still only recognises the crappy integrated graphics card. I have tried using this method (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDMDL0lEG5E) to re-write the prefs file but i found that skyrim would just search again for drivers and once more only recognise the integrated card.
3) A couple of times my laptop has crashed due to overheating, it could well be dust but equally i remember when i was looking for the crash report i found there were problems with PowerBIOS-server or something, although i have subsequently forgotten how i found this data and it was a long time ago.( in hindsight this is a pretty vague and poorly informed point - sorry)
anyway specs:
intel core i5-2450m CPU @ 2.30ghz
64 bit and windows 7
Integrated card: Intel (R) HD graphics family
High performance: Nvidida geforce Gt555m
Any advice or suggestions would be hugely appreciated
Thanks,
Giles
I purchased my laptop a year and half ago with and it has largely been functioning fine but there have been a few problems that I have been unable to fix, I don't think they are related but I'm not the most technically competent person so yeah.
1) I have been occasionally (about once a week) getting an error message on log-in stating "system needs to be restarted - Make sure all Driver installed" - this is commonly attributed to a problem with the hotkey drivers, I have downloaded the latest driver from Clevo (version 3.3044) but this morning the message occurred again. I don't think this is impacting my laptop but I've been wrong before....
2) I have had a lot of problems with my optimus tech and getting games to use the high performance graphics card, such as Napoleon Total War and the Witcher (both of which I did find fixes for online), and most recently Skyrim. I have tried whitelisting (both the launcher and the tevs.exe file) but Skyrim still only recognises the crappy integrated graphics card. I have tried using this method (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDMDL0lEG5E) to re-write the prefs file but i found that skyrim would just search again for drivers and once more only recognise the integrated card.
3) A couple of times my laptop has crashed due to overheating, it could well be dust but equally i remember when i was looking for the crash report i found there were problems with PowerBIOS-server or something, although i have subsequently forgotten how i found this data and it was a long time ago.( in hindsight this is a pretty vague and poorly informed point - sorry)
anyway specs:
intel core i5-2450m CPU @ 2.30ghz
64 bit and windows 7
Integrated card: Intel (R) HD graphics family
High performance: Nvidida geforce Gt555m
Any advice or suggestions would be hugely appreciated
Thanks,
Giles
