jca2007

I am not familiar with replacing video cards on laptops as well as processors but I know I can on Desktop computers. So would I be able to replace my video card on this Laptop? I can't find out any information from HP about this....

I have hp pavilion dv7-1240us 8gb ram, ati radeon hd 3200 not sure if I can upgrade the graphics of my laptop and AMD Turion X2 Dual Core Mobile RM-72 @ 2.10ghz and 320gb hdd Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit with an external usb 1tb hard drive. I upgraded the ram myself with Patriot 2x 4gb sticks Patriot Signature CL6 4GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Laptop Memory Model PSD24G8002S found here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820220382 My question is what can I do to get the best performance out of my graphics? I have noticed I can't run higher end games like LOTR Online, which isn't really that high end of graphics but It gets laggy and I can't play. I thought 8gb of ram would help that. I can play Star Wars Galaxies Online and Civilization IV just fine. I have the latest ATI Graphics. Should I download Optimized Graphics to get better performance or is my Video Card just Sh177Y? Would it do good trying to upgrade the processor or is there any kind of optimizations I can do? I have the Catalyst Control Panel options on max. I also have 10mb cable in my barracks room.

Cluberti, Thanks. I did the diagnostic startup from msconfig and it worked fine. So I disabled alot of non microsoft services first to see if it could have been anything and it seems to be working fine now. The only thing that irritates me is I don't know exactly which service could have caused it...... Thanks though.

I have windows vista 64bit home premium. When I try to open up applications, close them, open something within everything freezes. I can use control alt delete but can only log off and log back in normally again until I open something and freezes, or reebot, shutdown what have you. I mean anything I try to open freezes. The start menu. I can get it to open but if I try to open a program from it, it freezes. I did a chkdsk run on my hard drive, it's good. Scanned for viruses and spyware that's good. I can not use system restore or open task manager to see if anything is wrong. I have opened the device manager but I don't seem to have any compatibility issues. Everything is up to date from widnows update. I am not sure what it is but I have a grey globe shape icon with grids on the icon on my bottom right bar. I can open firefox/IE and surf the web though..... Doesn't make sense. I am using an HP Pavilion DV7 Laptop with 4gb ram, onboard hd ati graphics. Anyone have a solution? Never encountered this before. Thanks.