Gateway NX860 Model #M685 T5500 Widescreen distortion…
When watching DVDs in full-screen mode (monitor is a 17" WXGA Widescreen (1440 × 900 Max Res)), my GF
gets an intolerable degree of distortion, hazy & gritty & obviously showing the digital grid. Game-playing & watching
DVDs in centered small-screen mode is much better. With all the praise this laptop got in the reviews, I would think
the full-screen DVD graphics would be much better. Anyway, no amount of adjustments in any video playing system
(Windows Media, Real Player, etc.) has helped.
Also her Thief & Alice games would not load at all. We are getting a patch for Thief, which apparently has problems
with dual core systems. Would the dual core processor have any problematic effect on the graphics?
We sent it back to Gateway for servicing, they replaced the optical drive, and that has done nothing to improve
the situation. In fact, the graphics seem to have worsened during game play. The desktop wallpaper is very
unclear, distorted and not clearly defined. The graphics of some games show pixillation. The video scenes of
games are very cloudy and blotchy, for lack of a better word. In any partthat would normally have mist or shading,
there is a strange blotchinessand distortion where it should be clearly defined. The DVDs are no better with the
graphics are as blotchy, distorted and pixillated as before. In our discussions with Gateway’s TSRs before sending
it in, it was suggested by several of them that the problems may lie within the drivers or the video card, but we don’t
know if those was even checked
Another problem is excessive flex in the keyboard, to the point that the whole thing moves when a key is pressed.
It almost seems to bounce when typing. Is this normal for this model?
Specs are-
Model: Gateway NX860
Display: 17" WXGA Widescreen (1440 × 900 Max Res)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 (1.6GHz)
Memory: 1024MB 667Mhz DDR2 Memory (2-512MB)
Hard Drive: 120GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
Optical Drives: CDRW-DVD Combo Drive
Video: nVidia GeForce Go 7600 (128MB)
O/S: WinXP
