Orion Duo Graphics Card Problem

[RJO]

I have a problem with the graphics card on my Orion Duo laptop. After playing 3d games for a while, it starts producing lines and triangles, in the same colours as the objects they appear to originate from.

I've updated the graphics drivers and this has made no difference, so I'm not sure what it could be.

The picture below demonstrates the problem, visible on the robot to the right hand side (this was taken from 3dmark06). I've tried this test with an older laptop and it doesn't produce any of these lines, so I don't believe that it's simply a case of the graphics being to complex for the X1400 to deal with.

http://youngquaker.byethost10.com/3derrorsmall.JPG

If anybody has any ideas which I can do to solve this, I'd be grateful. I'm currently in the middle of the final year of my degree, so I'd like to avoid returning the laptop for repairs/formatting etc because it's rather crucial to me at the moment!

[Cressey]

My orion duo also has this problem, no matter which drivers i use for the x1400, it always creates after a small time playing the odd texture spikes on most objects within game. They start small and become larger and on more objects. Is this a specific driver problem or hardware related?

I am having a lot of issiues with this laptop as of late and am getting rather annoyed tbh.

I repeatedly get messages from the drivers saying the graphics card has stopped responding to commands and has been reset. This occuers on different drivers.

And recently, it has started getting the wonderful blue screen stating:

Hardware Malfunction call hardware vendor for support:
NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error
*** The system has halted ***

It has also started to freeze up and just stop responding to input while simply browsing files and folders or simply watching a dvd, the video pauses, sound continues for a min until it all stops.

Any ideas?? I will be reformatting the hdd but i feel this may be a little deeper then simply the software??

Thanks for any help

[GN]

Memory duff???