My Lenovo N500 laptop sometimes just turns off when playing games that are new and require a lot of computer resources. Any ideas what might be wrong and how to solve it would be apreciated.

Hi,

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Primer:

The AMD ATI Radeon Mobility HD 4250 is;

1) A mobile design of GPU. Mobile meaning being made for Laptops.
2) GPU = Graphics Processing Unit,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPU

The GPU is essentially the 'Graphics Engine'
This GPU is used for Integrated Graphics.
Integrated also means OnBoard.
ON the motherBOARD.

This GPU is a chip soldered to the motherboard. There is no upgrading it as you would for a desktop computer.
(As in changing to a better Graphics Card)

Integrated graphics borrows from the System's resources.
The system resources are the Processor, and Ram Memory.
Anything that borrows from the system resources will slow the computer down, as far as the Operating System is concerned, and the program that is being run.

In this case referring to playing a game, if the game is intensive it will require a lot of the 'graphics engine'.
The GPU
The GPU stated above will borrow from the system resources, and if an intense game is being played, the game may freeze, or you'll have low frame rates, and/or poor graphics quality.

A lot to absorb, I know. Wanted you to have the facts.
Short answer?
NO.

You will be able to play a lot of the games out there, but not the new intense one's.
It's not a gamer laptop with that GPU being used.

[The GPU is an AMD ATI RV620

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_graphics_processing_units#Mobility_Radeon_HD_4xxx_Series ]

Sounds like the hardware is failing to me.

Hi. Here's the link where you can download all the drivers of your computer. Make sure you select the right model. If you are not sure with the model of your unit. You can look for it at the back of your laptop.

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Have you tried running it in XP mode? if not give that a try it is possible that WoW may not have been patched yet to run on windows 7
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No, the LED board is probably unplugged, loose connection or faulty. Ive seen this before.

Turn on your computer. Press F2, while the initial screen is displayed.
The BIOS Setup Utility screen opens.

Boot priority order look for your had disk here.
order should be
1. cd rom
then 2. hard disk
then 3. usb or network boot device. anything bellow doesn't really matter much.

The mouse pad maybe faulty or the ribbon cable from the mouse pad to the motherboard may not be properly connected. Reseat this cable.
You can connect an USB optical mouse to the laptop. I prefer you use a USB mouse all the time over the mouse pad.

Other than RAM there are also other things to be considered to be able to experience great gaming experience. Commonly the slow and laggy experience are due to insufficient RAM, low video memory, internet connction if your playing online,disk space and processor. And no its nor a driver issue. The best way is to solve this is to check the recommended "system requirements" of the games your playing. If all requirements are met i'm pretty sure you'll be able to play games smoothly. good luck!

Hi,
The N500 has a row of touch sensitive buttons above the keyboard, toward the right side of the computer. If you have accidentally press one of those buttons you may have disabled the keyboard, try pressing one of those buttons to activate the keyboard again.


Good luck.