Hello everyone,
So I've had this Asus laptop since my freshman year of undergrad. I obviously have graduated and am waiting for a job currently, but this old laptop of mine only really runs okay on safe mode with networking in Windows 7.
Its an Asus K40AB with a Turion Dual core processor (lol its pretty much a horrible single core probably) with 4 gigs of ram, 64 bit windows 7,
The weird thing is that its says that I have an ATI Radeon 3200 (probably its the integrated card), but in reality according to the sticker still on the laptop, its got a Radeon 4570 graphics card...
Is this is an issue of maybe its switching to the integrated card and its completely black-screening due to a damaged video card due to drivers or something?
This laptop has been prone to heat issues though, so I even opened it up and cleaned it out, and still, that didn't do anything.
Can you guys come up with steps of what to do because I would still like to use this from time to time, or at least to be able to go into normal Windows 7 and backup music and a host of other things (though, I could do this normally for backup purposes via safe mode, I just can't play emulators at times ;P)
The only other thing I forgot to mention is that I have only 7 gigs free on the 75 gig hdd that contains windows, while I have 74 gigs free on the other harddrive that basically just contains music.
So I've had this Asus laptop since my freshman year of undergrad. I obviously have graduated and am waiting for a job currently, but this old laptop of mine only really runs okay on safe mode with networking in Windows 7.
Its an Asus K40AB with a Turion Dual core processor (lol its pretty much a horrible single core probably) with 4 gigs of ram, 64 bit windows 7,
The weird thing is that its says that I have an ATI Radeon 3200 (probably its the integrated card), but in reality according to the sticker still on the laptop, its got a Radeon 4570 graphics card...
Is this is an issue of maybe its switching to the integrated card and its completely black-screening due to a damaged video card due to drivers or something?
This laptop has been prone to heat issues though, so I even opened it up and cleaned it out, and still, that didn't do anything.
Can you guys come up with steps of what to do because I would still like to use this from time to time, or at least to be able to go into normal Windows 7 and backup music and a host of other things (though, I could do this normally for backup purposes via safe mode, I just can't play emulators at times ;P)
The only other thing I forgot to mention is that I have only 7 gigs free on the 75 gig hdd that contains windows, while I have 74 gigs free on the other harddrive that basically just contains music.