Gateway issues?

So, I bought a refurbished Gateway NV52 laptop about six months ago. (Don’t judge me for the refurbished part, I’m a cash-strapped student!)

Anyway, when I bought the laptop, it was running Windows Vista. Bleugh. After about three months, I upgraded to a digital copy of Windows 7 Home Premium. However, after the upgrade, my computer would occasionally freeze for a few moments, after which the screen would go black. Not ‘off’ black, but every pixel would go black, or occasionally, gray. There was no rhyme or reason to the freezing, although it generally occurred while I was actively using the computer for at least half an hour.

At first I thought that it was an issue with the (legal) digitally downloaded copy of Windows 7 that I was using, so I downloaded Windows 7 Eternity edition and installed it. Everything seemed to go fine… until the same problem cropped up. Now, I really don’t want to have to reformat, especially if the problem crops up again, so anyone have any bright ideas to what this problem might be? My only theory is that it’s something to do with the Gateway-provided BIOS.

Also, I know it’s not the computer overheating (has happened while the computer is cold, warm, and hot), it’s not a hardware issue (started the day after installing Win7), I’ve tried defragging, re-installing, running WMD, and just about everything I could think of, so I’ve run through most of the basic stuff already.

Anyone have any bright ideas?
WMD hasn’t found any issues,

the GPU is nvidia Geforce 9300 based so no wonder your laptop is overheating… Next time get one with Radeon graphics.

Well using Weapons of Mass Destruction on your laptop is hardly going to help is it.
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Just tryin’ to be helpful bro

hahaha! well played good sir!

So I am not a laptop geek… is it possible to change the video card on a laptop?

There’s not much you can do. In most laptops, you can’t replace the video card.

I had a not totally unsimiliar problem a while back, it probably won’t work, but try resetting the BIOS settings to default. That might fix it.

You can in them gaming laptops.

Tell us a bit more. When does it start freezing up? Before system start up? or after logging in.

Read the OP fool

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