M17x R1 - constant blue screens and video hangups

For the last two week's i've been troubleshooting a couple problems with my m17x which i thought where RAM related, but not anymore...

Here are the symptoms:

1. Constant blue screens of death or lockups no matter what i was doing - on the web, watching a video, using itunes, writing a document, gaming or my personal favorite while the computer was idle.

2. The screen goes black for a few seconds and then i get the following message:

This happens A LOT!!! Around 5-10 times per hour when its really bad, other times 5-10 times a day...

At first i thought my windows installation was just dying so i formatted and installed win 7 from scratch. Since that didnt help i tohugh It might to be bad ram. I have 2 x 4gb sticks so i took one of them out to see if it became stable again. I experienced the same issues no matter what ram stick i left inside. I doubt both went bad at the same time so i now think one of the video cards (i have the 2 x nvidia 260's) is to blame. I've tried several different video drivers but the problems are still there...

Im not a hardware genius but this is not software related... I have a m11x running the exact same things and it is nice and stable.

What are your thoughts? My warranty ran out so sadly that is not an option.

Alex

 

Follow these steps:

-Restart
-Press F2 to access BIOS
-Switch to the Advanced tab
-Scroll down to Graphic Settings and press Enter
-Here disable everything (or just PCIe Gen2 if you use the integrated from time to time)

Save and exit, tada no more video driver failures or BSODs

 

Thanks for the quick response! I restarted and disabled everything as suggested. Will update in a few hours to see if its stable. Fingers Crossed!

Alex

 

Don't worry if the drivers were properly installed there's no way you will get any BSODs or lock-ups related to video drivers.

 

Thanks again for your solution. I wanted to wait a couple days to test it out thoroughly and I can now say I havent had ONE problem yet! Problem solved!

 

Good to hear all thanks to this community working together.
Now back to enjoying your system, come back if you need more assistance and we'll do our best to help you.

Cheers

 

There should be a Sticky somewhere about this issue. In my opinion is one of the most recurrent topic.