Display driver failing M15x

ok now i have had my new pet my M15x yes i call her my pet lol
for 2 days that i have been using it and it has goen blank 3 times and when the screen comes back it says display driver has failed
please help what is going on is this the driver that is bad do i have to reinstall it or is the GPU going bad

Thank you

 

can you give more detail full system specs, driver versions , os ver. And what your doing when it happens.

 

its a M15x with the GTX 340m 4 gigs of DDr 3 1333 I7-720qm a 320 gig hd anythign els you need to know on the specs ?

i could be doing anyting from just typing a email or browsing the web and all of a sudden it just goes blank and then says display driver failed and then starts working agian

 

it just happend again and the little window that poped up tords the bottom by the toolbar that said what happesn it said something about 186.47 i think or maybe the 7 was a 6 or 8 not sur ebut it said display driver failed

 

uninstall the driver and replace it with the win7 driver from the Dell support page
check the various threads under gaming where there are lots of discussions about the merits and limitations of various drivers and a couple of guides.
do you really have a 340m card or was that a typo?

 

sorry about that its the 240 it was a typo im sorry

 

how do i unistall a driver ?

 

in device manager: try either the last Dell driver here
http://support.dell.com/support/dow...typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=334065
or this one from nVidia that many have found works well:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook_winvista_win7_x64_186.81_whql.html
the last link will also let you search for other more recent but beta drivers: some work better for some people than others but the video driver will affect not only your display but your power settings and thus your system stability as well
They are fairly easy to try and uninstall if not better than what you use already.

 

ok now this is starting to eritate me last nite i unistalled the display driver and i had trouble installing it so i called dell and they hellped me to install it
i got the one that was dated from september the latest one i think
and it just went out on me again it said display driver failed the screen went blank for about 2 seconds then it came bcak and said display driver failed but corected itself and this is eritating
should not be happning right ?
this time all i did was open up AOL and then i streched the screan without doing anyting other then clickong on the little box in the corner to enlarge the screen
i think i am using 1600x900 is it possible that using the full screan size is casuing this to happen or is it somthing els

 

Sounds like it might possibly be a bad video card.

 

darn the last thing i want is to call dell up and tell them that evyer time i have ever had antying go bad on a system thati s less than 30 days old they tell me that they are going to send me a new system wich takes 3 weeks to genirate the order lol

 

i just got of the phone with dell they are sending out a new GPU card so that is good
also what side is the GPU on is you have the laptop sitting opend and not flipped over is it on the side that has the touch buttons and the cd drive or is it on the side that has the power cord ?
i only ask becasue now i am hering what sounds like a grinding noise every now and then and its comming from the fan that is on the side that has the cd rom but its not comming from the cd drive