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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 ), and of course, the other difference is that mine crashes all the damn time PLEASE HELP T___________________________________T -- u4ea |
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Tremendous Display Issues, BSOD/etc
What does Gateway support say about the problem?
-- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "u4ea" wrote in message ... 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 ), and of course, the other difference is that mine crashes all the damn time PLEASE HELP T___________________________________T -- u4ea |
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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? -- u4ea |
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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. -- merkat106 |
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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. |