New M11x R2 Owner! Questions...

Well first off I must say I'm very happy with this machine but I do have a few questions!

Haven't tried any other games yet because there still downloading (painfully slow internet) but I tried playing Portal last night and it ran fine for an hour, closed it, all was well. Fired it up again later in the evening and it crashed twice within about 10 minutes, I could ctrl/alt/del out of it but when trying to close the Portal.exe it refused to do so. Only way to get it to close was to shutdown the system...hoping this doesn't happen with other games when I get them downloaded...(RIFT, SC2)

Specs: Core i5, 8GM RAM, Nvidia 335m.

I'm running the AO4 bios and the Nvidia 266.58 drivers. I was also playing using the integrated graphics and not the GPU if that helps!

And my final question, should I invest in a cooling pad? I can game for quite a few hours at a time and I don't want to risk burning my new baby up...from user experience how hot does this thing get after extended use (3+ hours) using the GPU?

*EDIT* Also using the factory install, didn't do a clean install of Windows 7. And when I installed the new Nvidia drivers I just use the recommended install and not the custom one, is it possible that it's a driver issue? And if so...how do I fix that?

 

It could be the drivers fault for the crash. I had L4D2 crash like that while my gpu was slightly overclocked and playing on a 32 inch tv. Ever since steam updated itself that problem has seemed to disappear.
I just bough a chill mat because I had a 20 dollar giftcard to best buy. It's not needed but it definitely wont hurt to get one. I'm about to try a quick gaming session to see how much it really helps.

 

Going to try Rift out here in a minute and see it it does a "hard freeze" like Portal does...

If it does I'm going to try the other drivers (260.99) and post back with results.

 

I'm having the same problem with my system. I'm looking for anything that can fix this issue, so far I have tried this and it actually made my system more stable.

First, don't use the 266.58 driver, download this driver.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7-winvista-64bit-267.24-beta-driver.html

When installing this driver, be sure to select "Clean Install", this will overwrite your old driver.

Also make sure your games are listed in your whitelist, if you don't know how to add a game to your whitelist, have a look on this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U874jC2blJQ

If this didn't fix your issues, you can also try using EVGA Precision and downclock your shader clock. I have done this step too because I'm still having problems when playing games and I don't know yet if it works but I have not experienced any crashes yet.

http://www.evga.com/precision/

This is my settings:

Core Clock: 427
Shader Clock: 1024
Memory Clock: 790

 

I just rec'd mine yesterday as well and with the same specs.

For the most part I spent about 10 hours installing software and generally playing with the new system yesterday and I found that it got a bit hot on the bottom, but forcing cooling to 'active' seemed to help a lot. Of course it lowers battery life, but I'm more likely to be using in on the couch with power nearby anyways.

 

You should never use a laptop (notebook) on a soft surface, like a couch, bed or carpet, that will block the fans and vents from pushing the hot air out. Use it on a hard surface, like a desk or a table, or you could purchase a cooling pad and use it where ever you want.

Yeah, I never use my battery, I actually opened her up and removed the battery to get rid of heat since it get extremely hot in there. I'm now only running mine on AC power.

 

Mine gets quite hot as well, how do I force "cooling"? Thanks

And I switched to the older drivers and all is well, played RIFT for hours without issue .