Tremendous Display Issues, BSOD/etc
 

Hello,
Ever since roughly 2 weeks after I bought my Gateway FX laptop, I've
been getting several different FRUSTRATING display issues. I'm running
Vista Home Premium 64bit, I have a 9800M GTS, 4GB of DDR3, and a 2.26GHZ
DuoCore.
Where to begin, lets see... I constantly get the BSOD blaming
nvlddmkm.sys, my computer constantly freezes up on games, we're talking
full-blown freeze, not just a CTD, I have to hard-shutdown my system by
holding down the power button, and that doesn't just happen on nex-gen
games, in fact, I get it most often on Warcraft 3. Quite often before
the games crash, pixels will start freaking out like there's no
tomorrow, continuously changing colors, more and more pixels freaking
out, until my computer just locks up entirely. The most interesting and
annoying glitch, is that if I watch an online video fullscreen, whether
it's through Firefox, Opera, or even *shudder* Internet Explorer. The
video slows down, gets INCREDIBLY choppy, then just straight freezes up
for anywhere from 20-30 seconds(and sometimes that's only if I'm able to
ctrl+alt+del in time), and I get a "Display driver stopped working and
has recovered" message.
Before I get the responses I've read in so many other threads
regarding some of the issues I'm having, I have tried:
Updating my Video driver, to both the latest stable and beta
drivers(yes I uninstalled my old drivers first)
Checking to see if Vista updated the video driver(it hasn't)
Rolling back my driver
Making sure my Video Card fan isn't overheating
Making sure all the hardware is in place etc
I've even tried reformatting 3 times, and the third time I unplugged my
ethernet cable and disabled the wireless card to make sure nothing was
downloaded, and it STILL started having ALL of these issues within the
same day.
I've tried other things as well, but it's been going on so long and
I've tried so many things and read so many forums that I can't even
remember anymore...
I've also run norton and checked for viruses.

If anyone has any information that could possibly help, with ANY of
these issues, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm starting to lose my
mind here T_______________T


OH one more thing that confuses the living sh*t out of me, my friend
bought the EXACT SAME LAPTOP as I have, and he does not and has not had
a SINGLE issue I have had. All of his games run perfectly, his computer
has never crashed, he's able to watch full-screen online videos, we have
the same video drivers installed, updated windows evenly, I've even
tried not installing any programs he doesn't have installed. Our
computers are literally identical, the only difference being that I got
one of the 1920x1200 monitors (gateway ran out of the 1440x900, so 5% of
them have the upgraded monitor for free :D), and of course, the other
difference is that mine crashes all the damn time :mad:

PLEASE HELP T___________________________________T


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u4ea

Tremendous Display Issues, BSOD/etc
 

What does Gateway support say about the problem?

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"u4ea" wrote in message
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Hello,
Ever since roughly 2 weeks after I bought my Gateway FX laptop, I've
been getting several different FRUSTRATING display issues. I'm running
Vista Home Premium 64bit, I have a 9800M GTS, 4GB of DDR3, and a 2.26GHZ
DuoCore.
Where to begin, lets see... I constantly get the BSOD blaming
nvlddmkm.sys, my computer constantly freezes up on games, we're talking
full-blown freeze, not just a CTD, I have to hard-shutdown my system by
holding down the power button, and that doesn't just happen on nex-gen
games, in fact, I get it most often on Warcraft 3. Quite often before
the games crash, pixels will start freaking out like there's no
tomorrow, continuously changing colors, more and more pixels freaking
out, until my computer just locks up entirely. The most interesting and
annoying glitch, is that if I watch an online video fullscreen, whether
it's through Firefox, Opera, or even *shudder* Internet Explorer. The
video slows down, gets INCREDIBLY choppy, then just straight freezes up
for anywhere from 20-30 seconds(and sometimes that's only if I'm able to
ctrl+alt+del in time), and I get a "Display driver stopped working and
has recovered" message.
Before I get the responses I've read in so many other threads
regarding some of the issues I'm having, I have tried:
Updating my Video driver, to both the latest stable and beta
drivers(yes I uninstalled my old drivers first)
Checking to see if Vista updated the video driver(it hasn't)
Rolling back my driver
Making sure my Video Card fan isn't overheating
Making sure all the hardware is in place etc
I've even tried reformatting 3 times, and the third time I unplugged my
ethernet cable and disabled the wireless card to make sure nothing was
downloaded, and it STILL started having ALL of these issues within the
same day.
I've tried other things as well, but it's been going on so long and
I've tried so many things and read so many forums that I can't even
remember anymore...
I've also run norton and checked for viruses.

If anyone has any information that could possibly help, with ANY of
these issues, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm starting to lose my
mind here T_______________T


OH one more thing that confuses the living sh*t out of me, my friend
bought the EXACT SAME LAPTOP as I have, and he does not and has not had
a SINGLE issue I have had. All of his games run perfectly, his computer
has never crashed, he's able to watch full-screen online videos, we have
the same video drivers installed, updated windows evenly, I've even
tried not installing any programs he doesn't have installed. Our
computers are literally identical, the only difference being that I got
one of the 1920x1200 monitors (gateway ran out of the 1440x900, so 5% of
them have the upgraded monitor for free :D), and of course, the other
difference is that mine crashes all the damn time :mad:

PLEASE HELP T___________________________________T


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u4ea

Tremendous Display Issues, BSOD/etc
 

As of now they have said nothing because they have yet to get back to
me, I e-mailed them a few days ago, but nothing as of yet. I'm expecting
them to either blame it on vista(which is stupid and lazy of them)
and/or ask me to send my laptop in to them, which I cannot do because
this is my school computer and I need it for homework etc.

Can't you guys help me?


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u4ea

Tremendous Display Issues, BSOD/etc
 

Sounds like a driver conflict...

Did you install anything right before you began seeing BSOD?

Or it could be a hardware problem...

Try calling Gateway, not just emailing them. Explain whats been going
on and your troubleshooting efforts. They may want you to send your
laptop to them if the problem turns out to be hardware so they could fix
the issue.


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merkat106

Tremendous Display Issues, BSOD/etc
 

On Thu, 21 May 2009 22:51:58 -0500, u4ea
wrote:


As of now they have said nothing because they have yet to get back to
me, I e-mailed them a few days ago, but nothing as of yet. I'm expecting
them to either blame it on vista(which is stupid and lazy of them)
and/or ask me to send my laptop in to them, which I cannot do because
this is my school computer and I need it for homework etc.

Can't you guys help me?

You have a hardware problem and email is NOT the way to handle it on a
new computer that is under warranty.

CALL Gateway immediately.