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Tomteriffic · April 18th, 2007, 09:07 PM

My wife just bought a refurb laptop (Acer)and it was a big ol' DAWG! We had to format and reload the thing twice in the week she's had it. It seems that the central issue has to do with power management. This was an Intel Core Duo with the 950 graphics chip. The thing wouldn't come out of Standby or Hibernate (or just about any other reduced-power state), which would force her to do a hard shutdown a cold boot. The machine was never overheated or subjected to harsh conditions.

Evidently, this thing had hard drive issues as well, since it would sometimes take 2 or 3 tries to get it to boot all the way into Winderz. So, it's going back. Here's my question....

The Intel 950 graphics chip is pretty ubiquitous and my wife is looking at an HP as a replacement. It has the 950 video as well. Is this an OK chip or is there something endemic to the chip that might be causing the troubles we were having with the Acer? I'd be kind of surprised if it did, but if there's some sort of fundamental flaw in the 950 chip, then my wife would just be buying more trouble if she got another machine with it.

My suspicion is that she just got a POS, though.....

Anybody?

Oh, and what's with the ad in the bottom of the body of the post? I guess I've been gone too long....

April 18th, 2007, 09:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
Tomteriffic Ultimate Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Ohio (transplanted f Posts: 3,110	Intel 950 Graphics Chip Issue??? My wife just bought a refurb laptop (Acer)and it was a big ol' DAWG! We had to format and reload the thing twice in the week she's had it. It seems that the central issue has to do with power management. This was an Intel Core Duo with the 950 graphics chip. The thing wouldn't come out of Standby or Hibernate (or just about any other reduced-power state), which would force her to do a hard shutdown a cold boot. The machine was never overheated or subjected to harsh conditions. Evidently, this thing had hard drive issues as well, since it would sometimes take 2 or 3 tries to get it to boot all the way into Winderz. So, it's going back. Here's my question.... The Intel 950 graphics chip is pretty ubiquitous and my wife is looking at an HP as a replacement. It has the 950 video as well. Is this an OK chip or is there something endemic to the chip that might be causing the troubles we were having with the Acer? I'd be kind of surprised if it did, but if there's some sort of fundamental flaw in the 950 chip, then my wife would just be buying more trouble if she got another machine with it. My suspicion is that she just got a POS, though..... Anybody? Oh, and what's with the ad in the bottom of the body of the post? I guess I've been gone too long.... __________________ There's only two things in life. But I forget what they are.