screen freeze problem

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hi all,

first off, if this is the wrong group to post this to, then apologies,
pls point me in the rigth direction if u can...

i have a toshiba P10 notebook, 2.8Ghz, 512 MB ram, nvidia Gforce FX vid
card with 64 MB on board vid memory.

when i am playing certain games, for which i have more than the min
requirment according to whats written on the back of the box for the
game, my screen is freezing regularly. my friend who also has a toshiba
laptop which is both older and technically inferior to mine , is not
getting this problem. the game play is continuing, but my screen freezes
up for about a second , quiet regularly. when this happens the hard disk
LED is illuminating, signifying the HD is doing something.

has anyone any advice for me how to fix this?

thanks in advance.

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

Quaoar wrote:
> "waldo" <wallycharlo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ckmdaq$i7q$1@newshispeed.ch...
>
>>hi all,
>>
>>first off, if this is the wrong group to post this to, then apologies,
>>pls point me in the rigth direction if u can...
>>
>>i have a toshiba P10 notebook, 2.8Ghz, 512 MB ram, nvidia Gforce FX
>>vid card with 64 MB on board vid memory.
>>
>>when i am playing certain games, for which i have more than the min
>>requirment according to whats written on the back of the box for the
>>game, my screen is freezing regularly. my friend who also has a
>>toshiba laptop which is both older and technically inferior to mine ,
>>is not getting this problem. the game play is continuing, but my
>>screen freezes up for about a second , quiet regularly. when this
>>happens the hard disk LED is illuminating, signifying the HD is doing
>>something.
>>
>>has anyone any advice for me how to fix this?
>>
>>thanks in advance.
>
>
> Possibly the HD cannot keep up with buffering the video stream. Do a
> disk cleanup and defragment. Open device manager, IDE ATA/ATAPI
> controllers, check Primary and Secondary IDE channels Advanced Settings
> for DMA. Primary IDE channel (Device 0) should be Transfer Mode: DMA if
> Available, Current Transfer Mode: UDMA Mode 5. Secondary (Device 0)
> should be the same except UDMA Mode 2.
>
> Q
>
>

thanks. all settings are as you say...... any other guess?