Hello everyone! Ziotoo4 here, a computer enthousiast with some problems with his latest laptop. Hopefully you can help me sort them out!
So, i use the pc mostly for design/3d work. I don't do gaming (on my laptop...
), and last month i had to ditch my old hp dv6 for a new machine.
After a really long time searching i settled on the vaio E14p for its portable form factor coupled with a touch screen (i do lot of presentations), a quad-core non-ultrabook i7 cpu and a dedicated switchable graphics card (1gb vram on ati mobility radeon 7650m, integrated intel hd4000)
This last choice would bring me all kind of troubles. When i got my laptop with the stock drivers i had to manually set every application to run on the ati videocard (doing heavvy 3D work the hd4000 is of no use except for watching youtube videos...). Some software would not run at all (lumion), other would crash my pc completely (cryengine3).
Thinking the drivers were somehow corrupted i downloaded both the BIOS update (some people said it would fix the cryengine issue) and the official manufacturer drivers for my machine's amd/intel switchable graphics from the sony website.
The problems were mostly solved, except the catalyst control panel would not open. Every app i hadn't previously set would default on the HD integrated processor. Big problem for me.
3 reinstalls later, .net framework update, etc etc, the catalyst control panel would still crash silently.
Figuring out i had nothing to lose, i downloaded the leshcat drivers. Created backup and restore points, followed all the instructions-it worked! I got really good performance, catalyst would work correctly. Such a relief.
Except, my laptop fan won't shut up. It's very loud and spins constantly. Not only is this kinda annoying; i also believe it's not good for the fan itself. I downloaded speedfan and checked temperatures for both cpu and gpu- it's around 42c and the airflow coming out the fan is actually cool, so i really don't understand what it could be.
I also had some hard freezes, but that, i can live with. This fan issue instead is actually worrying me a lot-i am a student and don't have an unlimited budget, so this laptop has to last at least 2-3 years- i bought it 3 weeks ago and it's already giving me lots of trouble!
What should i do?
Thanks in advance,
ziotoo4
So, i use the pc mostly for design/3d work. I don't do gaming (on my laptop...
), and last month i had to ditch my old hp dv6 for a new machine.After a really long time searching i settled on the vaio E14p for its portable form factor coupled with a touch screen (i do lot of presentations), a quad-core non-ultrabook i7 cpu and a dedicated switchable graphics card (1gb vram on ati mobility radeon 7650m, integrated intel hd4000)
This last choice would bring me all kind of troubles. When i got my laptop with the stock drivers i had to manually set every application to run on the ati videocard (doing heavvy 3D work the hd4000 is of no use except for watching youtube videos...). Some software would not run at all (lumion), other would crash my pc completely (cryengine3).
Thinking the drivers were somehow corrupted i downloaded both the BIOS update (some people said it would fix the cryengine issue) and the official manufacturer drivers for my machine's amd/intel switchable graphics from the sony website.
The problems were mostly solved, except the catalyst control panel would not open. Every app i hadn't previously set would default on the HD integrated processor. Big problem for me.
3 reinstalls later, .net framework update, etc etc, the catalyst control panel would still crash silently.
Figuring out i had nothing to lose, i downloaded the leshcat drivers. Created backup and restore points, followed all the instructions-it worked! I got really good performance, catalyst would work correctly. Such a relief.
Except, my laptop fan won't shut up. It's very loud and spins constantly. Not only is this kinda annoying; i also believe it's not good for the fan itself. I downloaded speedfan and checked temperatures for both cpu and gpu- it's around 42c and the airflow coming out the fan is actually cool, so i really don't understand what it could be.
I also had some hard freezes, but that, i can live with. This fan issue instead is actually worrying me a lot-i am a student and don't have an unlimited budget, so this laptop has to last at least 2-3 years- i bought it 3 weeks ago and it's already giving me lots of trouble!
What should i do?
Thanks in advance,
ziotoo4
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