What happened to my laptop just now?

[progbuddy]

If you're running Intel graphics drivers (the latest ones), then it's probably those. I installed the latest Intel graphics drivers, and anything that used DX9 or any other kind of graphics accelerator made the computer lock up and restart. If you can, try and downgrade them if you have recently updated them.

Another reason may be that your harddrive is almost full, and the virtual memory is taking up the last little bit.

[Luke122]

It's not an emachines m5312 is it? If so, google how to clean the dust from the vents/cpu cooler! Fast!

Not to make you panic or anything, but those laptops are notorious for overheating, and prolonged periods of high heat = doorstop. I have one.

[nil8]

Well never mind. Its doing it again. Gah! If I had more than 5 dollars in my pocket right now, I would just go out and buy a brand new pc. lol I'm getting so tired of all of these dumb little problems popping up every other hour.

This is what makes you good at computers. Figuring out the annoying problems that make little to no sense.
10% of my job is stuff I've never seen or dealt with before. 90% of my job is stuff I know or have done before. The 10% takes 60% of my time.
It's how it goes man.

I would suggest hitting up forums, specifically for your hardware set and google sketchup. You can't be the only one in the world with this issue.

[Computer-Geek]

roll back your graphic card driver. i just did that and now i'm able to use sketchup on my laptop running windows vista since i got this laptop i have only been able to use it once before it wouldn't run and it kept freezing.

[.Maleficus.]

If you're running Intel graphics drivers (the latest ones), then it's probably those. I installed the latest Intel graphics drivers, and anything that used DX9 or any other kind of graphics accelerator made the computer lock up and restart. If you can, try and downgrade them if you have recently updated them.

Another reason may be that your harddrive is almost full, and the virtual memory is taking up the last little bit.

It's a Mobility 9700.

What version of Sketchup are you using? 6.0? If you aren't, try installing the latest one. I only recently found out I was still using the beta lol.

[Zephik]

Thanks for the help guys. I gave up trying to create a modders mesh side panel, that seemed to be the only thing that would give my issues. I haven't had any problems since I dropped it. I guess what I could do, is drop in a picture of modders mesh and "skin" it over where it needs to be. That'll look pretty lame imo, but what matters is if it will look awesome once its all materialized and assembled. Which it will, because I'm cool like that. :p

[Zephik]

Real modders don't avoid the problem.

You know I love you snowfire, but dammit, you had better solve it and torubleshoot it to death. Keep on, keepin' on, bud.

-J

Gotta about half way before my pc started slowing down. Haven't had any of my previous problems, but I think I know what was the cause of them now. I don't think my processor/ram is good enough. The picture below is around 5.5MB file size, the mesh you see is around 3MB alone. So... I have about 20MB of mesh to apply. lol yea, I don't think thats gonna happen. But this is just a drawing to help give me an idea of what I am doing and what I need to do. Kind of like that old saying... "measure twice, cut once". or in my case... "measure thrice, mark it, come back in about an hour and measure it again, then decide to make my best friend do it instead and tell him that if he messes up he'll pay for it." lol