Gateway P7805U FX goes "black" while gaming

[Tudormaestro]

Yep. Sometimes.. parts break or don't work as intended after a while. Just like the tires on your car. You can rotate them .. but you can't stop them from wearing down. You may just have to invest in a new mobo/gpu. Although its unfortunate.. it happens.

[TheLoneWanderer]

nobody mentioned power mizer? It fixed some of my problems, but most remain. I can play newer games seemingly forever, but most older games will probably black screen and force me to reboot after 5, or 20 minutes. I haven't gotten any real explanation as to why I could play skyrim for six hours and halo custom edition for 5 minutes.

I still recommend you shoot it. As soon as I can afford a real gaming laptop that's what I intend to do with this piece of junk.

[Eniem]

I've installed powermizer already and set it to off. It gave me a boost in fps, but i'm still get black screen error. Sometimes i could play Skyrim for an hour or more without this error, and sometimes i couldn't play even 5 minutes, it almost instantly gives me error, i have no idea why it happens... Thanks for replay anyway

[TheLoneWanderer]

Well mine is deteriorating. It no longer plays any games more then 15 minutes without crashing. I recommend no one buy this computer, it is a piece of junk. Plain and simple. I've never had problems with any computer I ever bought except this thing. It's worthless, barely functional.

[TANWare]

Originally Posted by TheLoneWanderer

Well mine is deteriorating. It no longer plays any games more then 15 minutes without crashing. I recommend no one buy this computer, it is a piece of junk. Plain and simple. I've never had problems with any computer I ever bought except this thing. It's worthless, barely functional.

You purchased it with it broken already and the keyboard issue. Apparently the person who sold it to you was having issues as well. As with the purchase of any used computre there could be trouble. You nkew there were issues from the get go.

But I'll agree no one buy this (your) computer. Anyone searching out a P7805 is looking for a machine that has been probably run had gaming for the last three years too, so the buyer should always beware..........................

[jav2008]

I agree with TanWare that happened to me with an Alien ware, I find out later that my GPU was failing, so I decided to sell the machine. So if you want buy a new MOBO with a new GPU, then sell it on Craigslist.

[jav2008]

Gateways are not piece of junk. I got mine from Craigslist and this machine has done wonders, I have not gotten any problems. So next time be careful how you buy the computer.

[antonpetr]

why does everybody suggest you buying a new mb? can't you just buy video chip only and have it soldered? wouldn't it be a much more affordable solution?

[TANWare]

Originally Posted by antonpetr

why does everybody suggest you buying a new mb? can't you just buy video chip only and have it soldered? wouldn't it be a much more affordable solution?

Everyone doesn't. The problem could be one of many but if it is the GPU then it is easier to do a new main board unless you have those skills required to do a new GPU.

Now the old GPU could have issues from constant over heating or from being alowed to crash from PSU power spikes. If the brick is that bad you had best replace it before issues arise again.

I attribute my non issues with the P7805 that is now a P79xx from using a oversized brick. I can say with the stock brick just upgrading to a second drive and the T9600 it started displaying some flaky behaviour, the Targus 180w cured that in short notice.

What happens is you over strain the PSU and get power spikes that either over or under load the chips. This will easilly cause premature death of a chip. The problem here is the damage is not reversable so if you do nothing about it right away you are too late once it becomes a prevelant issue.

Even without upgrading the system these original PSU bricks are an issue. As time goes on they provide less and less clean power. Eventually the issues will start to show up and by then you have a bad system too.

Notice there are no P78xx or P79xx systems that were using the higher end bricks from the get go showing up as dead or with other issues. You, the individual user, has to decide if this says something. But remember I have been saying this for over three years...................

[maskedformed]

Originally Posted by TANWare

(Power Supply/AC Adapater Comment)

Interesting. My Gateway FX has been fantastic since I bought it brand new but the power supply has always been suspiciously incompetent. It would make a sizzling noise whenever I played a system intensive game. I would see some fps drops for no reason even though I was using a high end Zalman NC-2000 notebook cooler.

I replaced stock settings with an X9100, applied ICD7 to the CPU and GPU and overclocked the X9100 and 9800m GTS. So far, I haven't had any noticeable issues except the power adapter gets uncomfortably hot and makes a sizzling noise.

Do you recommend replacing the PSU? If so, can you provide a link to a good one?