I just received my Gateway 5150SE (One week early!). So far I'm impressed. It's very thin (1.6"), very light (less than 7 lbs), and fast enough for my needs (233 MHz P2). The screen is incredible (compared to my old Samsung Sens810 and the Transmonde Vivante XL I tried). The CDROM and HD seem a bit noisey, but I think I can live with that. I'm getting about 2.25 hours of battery life so far.
Anyway... I'm having a few problems. When it goes into suspend mode, it will only wake up about 25% of the time. The other times it starts to come back up, and then just freezes with a blank screen. Also... I keep getting artifacts on the screen (sometimes in 16bit mode, but always in 24bit color mode). Anyone have similar problems/solutions?
I got it with the following options: P2-233, 64 Megs, 2.1gig HD, 20x CDROM, no modem.
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Solution #4
posted on Aug 11, 2005
Cato - usenet poster
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To clarify:
The selection in the Win98 display settings only offers 256 color, 16bit or 24bit options. When set to 24bit, strange "artifacts" appear on the screen. For instance, if I move an icon, it will corrupt the desktop in the path it was moved (strange colors etc...).
Also... I've heard several accounts of how the new video chipset on the 5150 is supposed to support hardware direct 3D. I haven't been able to get it to work however (ie. in D3D games, the enable hardware acceleration box is not available or can't be checked). Any ideas?
Dave
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