Is this Serious?

Hello,

I just recently had my computer flashed a blue screen (while making a strange noise - like it held a note) and restart on its own while on battery power. It happened so fast that all I noticed was the error was about something to do with power (battery was full).

To be blunt this is my first windows computer since XP just came out so I have no idea what it can mean or what it can be caused by. Just seems like something serious.

Any ideas?

ps. system is stock M17X R3 with 580M - nothing was done to it aside from drivers, firmware updates.

Thank you,

timurStas,

 

Could be a number of reasons, dying hdd, faulty ram, corrupted windows, driver issues.

Better if you could provide more info that was shown in the bsod to narrow down the possibilities.



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I really wish I could just it happened so quickly that I could not read much of what the bsod said. I guess Ill just see what happens from now and let you know.

Thank you,

 

is the computer running fine after the blue screen? If it is running good don't worry about it for now. IF this becomes a regular occurrence, then a diagnosis is in order

 

Try downloading this program.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/bluescreenview_setup.exe

It should tell us or at least get us closer to the exact problem. I did this for my gpu a while back and it worked. Take a pic of the result and get back to us.

 

Thanks everyone,

So far this only happened once so I guess what ever it was it was nothing major. Ill give that program a go and see what it tells me.

Thank you,

EDIT:

Just ran that BSOD checker and the error was:
DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE

 

The last time I ran into that error was with my nvidia 460m...

Ok, a few questions. Do you ever use the laptop unplugged?
Do you really want the "Optimus" enabled, or couldn't care any less about it?
Have you overclocked the gpu at all?

Here's a few things you can and probably should do.

This is for the "Throttling" issue you will eventually encounter one day. Highly recommended.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...throtting-fix-no-need-modify-system-bios.html

This is the method to remove Optimus.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...-m17x-r3-bsod-start-till-now.html#post7903069
Except, you don't need to use A04, use this bios instead. It's the A08, later one.
http://www.mediafire.com/?2vw45vmgsk2vt7l
Also you can update to any newer driver on the nvidia site. I would advise you ignore the beta ones however.

 

I had one a few weeks after i got my r3 and havent had any issue since. mine was also on batt power. I figured it was just an update that crashed or something and restarted it. I have had no issues with freezing or anything in two months or more so im not worried.

steve

 

any updates? mine did it again today i was running chrome and downloading some stuff, after it finished it blue screened and restarted. it looked like it restored to about a half hour before the turn off and had no virus or anything detected after a scan.

i didnt have any pop up window saying it was going to shut down or anything. im still not really worried about it but was curious about you and your comp.

steve