m6400 Covet - Random World of Warcraft Crashes

So Far so good. I was able to play GW for about 2 hours last night with no hick- ups. I also noticed that the speaker face plate doesn't get near as hot as it used to.

 

Well, i have an update now. The game that wouldn't run at all, Guild Wars has ran great. Now I tried to play COD 4 for about an hour and I got a screen hang. It didn't go black it just went weird colors and stopped responding. I load up guild wars again for a bit and it still runs fine. I am puzzled at this point.

 

Try grabbing the 190.15 driver from:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/drivers

Use the Win7 driver for Vista.

If you're running 64 bit, be sure to reboot first, F8 - disable driver signing. Download the drive and inf file - extract the driver and drop the modified inf into the folder you extracted.

This driver works fine with the RGB LCD as well.

 

They should be making solid contact to the video card heat pipe for proper cooling. This issue is certainly related to a thermal issue with the M6400 design. Before the replacement video card fix, I also noticed that if my room Tamb was < 73 degrees F, the problem rarely (if ever) appeared.

 

I finally got my board changed in the my 6400.
I was experiencing the blank screens during gaming.
Had a lan on Sat and was a disaster...games kept freezing about 5-10 mins in.
Tried various drivers to no avail and eventually reinstalled and used the dell drivers. Still the exact same issue.
All games..changed the video card last night and still the same issue.
Video card is seated correctly and all.
The video card is definitely running about 10c cooler than my last base so don't think it's thermal related as it never went over 60c.
Back to square 1

 

Anybody have any updates on the black screen o video death issue...
"BSOVD"
I have this same issue and have been following this thread to see if their was any resolutions..
I have M6400 FX3700m on XP

 

The fix is to have your video card and/or motherboard replaced. Multiple times if necessary.

 

Shazbot..............

 

Mine is working perfectly again.
Did a complete reinstall once again (which i already had done).
Installed all the same drives (without control point).

Had done this before to no avail.
However this time I completely stripped the notebook and rebuilt it.
I've now been gaming for the past week on it with no crashes whatsoever.

 

Airblazer, when you say you "completely stripped the notebook and rebuilt it" what exactly do you mean?

Are you just talking software or hardware as well? I'm just curious if you used the same hardware as before when it was crashing or if you replaced anything before rebuilding the OS.