M17x display problems

I've seen this problem around the internet a bit and I've been experiencing problems myself.

The problem: *usually playing WoW* my computer's display either goes completely black and then I have to hard restart OR the display goes black for 3-5 seconds, flashes a couple times and I get an error message. The message tells me that the driver display stopped functioning but has restarted, etc.

Now I've read about this and a lot of people have been having this problem, but not a lot of people have SOLVED this problem. My question to those who may know what's going on, is: Any ideas what the problem may be?

I was using Dell's provided nvidia drivers for my GTX 260M card. I've uninstalled all/every nvidia driver and reinstalled a newer driver from nvidia's site directly instead of using Dell's display drivers.

This just really disappoints me after I spend $2200 on a laptop that I can't use for gaming - not to mention all of the other problems I've had with it/dell since I purchased it ><

 

I have not had this problem on my M17x, but on my M15x (now dead) I have had the same issue. What I did was to reflash the bios, and the issue was solved. I am not sure if this will help in your case, but it is worth giving it a try.

 

Well it looks like I fixed it on accident! I guess Nvidia's drivers work much much better than Dell's. The only downside is that I can't swap between dedicated and integrated graphics, but I rarely ever have to do that anyway