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    Need help! New Driver Blue screen problem

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by tazm0n, Sep 19, 2011.

  1. tazm0n

    tazm0n Notebook Geek

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    Hello-

    After months of trouble free gaming, I'm now having the exact blue screen problem that DeeVu mentions in his excellent buyers guide here in the R2 section- http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m11x/606025-deevus-quick-guide-buying-your-m11x.html
    Basically, I was getting some screen freezes in COD:BOPS and EQ2 so I upgraded to the latest Nvidia drivers, but then - BSOD - , the first I've ever seen since I bought my M11X last August (2010). It's happening after around the 9-17 min mark like DeeVu mentions (he says around 15min in during gaming). At the top of the BSOD it says "Cannot reset **** driver". I'm away from my M11X and don't remember the exact wording, but could that mean it's trying to switch to or from the NVidia GPU and can't?

    I have upgraded my GPU driver only twice before and have never installed modded ones. And I only did this time because I thought there may have been a game update that was causing the freezes since I hadn't played anything in several months thanks to work being crazy lately.

    I see that DeeVo suggests underclocking my GPU, but I'm not too sure how that is done. I don't use any of the OC, TPU, etc. utilities because I don't know how (<-- bit of a noob when it comes to this type of software modding). So I'm wondering if there has been any other solutions discovered (forum searches didn't turn up anything useful). I tried rolling my GPU driver back to the previous and it didn't work.

    I would appreciate any help. Thanks!
     
    tazm0n, Sep 19, 2011
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  2. DeeVu

    DeeVu That Compsci/Psych Major

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    To underclock download MSI Afterburner or EVGA precision (google) and then lower each of the sliders by 50Mhz. Should fix it. Shouldn't affect fps by much at all.
     
    DeeVu, Sep 19, 2011
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    tazm0n Notebook Geek

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    Thank you for the info. I'll try this ASAP!!
     
    tazm0n, Sep 21, 2011
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    shadowghost21 Notebook Guru

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    I have been having this issue for months, I figured changing drivers would help but it hasn't. Neither has under clocking my gpu, I am at 50mhz down clock on each of GPU, shader and memory. I'll try more as I really want to play some of these games that are causing the issues. And while most people say that the issue happens 15+ minutes in it's more like 3-5 minutes.

    What is the likely hood of paying a difference and getting either an R3 or an m14x? I have had this laptop since March of 2011. I always keep it on a desk propped up to have good air flow, never restrict the vents etc. The only game that doesn't have any issues is Rift and Diablo 2.
     
    shadowghost21, Sep 25, 2011
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