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Laptop Game Issues

CabooseMSG

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May 20, 2012
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I have a Sager NP9150 with a radeon 7970m and intel 4000 gpu. It has switchable graphics. My laptop started doing this on any game a couple days ago. It loads into a video game and once its loaded it works for 10 or 15 second and then freezes the system and forces a hard restart. I updated my catalyst mobility and tried updating my GPU drivers but i have the patest versions of those.
 
I'll suggest starting by downloading a temperature monitoring program such as SpeedFan, CoreTemp, HWMonitor and seeing what your temps are... sounds a bit like overheating offhand