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    M15x - Diplay driver reset and was recovered succesfully.

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Blackvoid, Oct 5, 2009.

  1. Blackvoid

    Blackvoid Notebook Consultant

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    Hello everyone. I got big problem which I'm trying to solve for last week, but getting really desperate so asking you for help. Otherwise I will have to send my laptop back to Alienware what I wouldn't really like to.

    Suddenly like week ago I had feeling like I can smell something burning in laptop, but everything was working fine so I didn't pay much attention to it. But like in few days after I start getting error " Display driver nvddk... was reset and recover succesfully" It was happening from time to time in World of Warcraft and than really often in Aion. I know that I got high gpu temperature since I got this laptop so I though it may be the reason. Opened laptop, cleaned fans, put new paste to gpu chip and temperature went a bit lower (70oC normally and 85oC-93oC when I'm playing) but driver keeps resetting still. Since that I did try like 4 different types of Nvidia drivers, cleared registers, updated all drivers which was out of date and today from desperation formated system disc and reinstalled everything. But problem is still here :/
    It looks like it not happening that often, but its happening still and my varranty is ending at the end of the month so I don't have much time to keep trying repair it. I did run memtest with no problem, also everetultiomate and FurMark. Got high temperatures but all the tests run through. Now I started to watch in which temperature drivers crash and seems its totally random. Sometime its on 79oC sometimes at 85 and so. So it does't look like graphic card overheat and that cause driver reset. Any idea is welcomed really cause I have like day max two to solve before I get it back to Alienware. Was reading lot about that error, but it seems to appear in many circumstances.

    Also I noticed that my gpu fan is getting high rotation at 93oC what is a bit crazy. Any idea how should I set it to start cooling faster? Evga Precision utility is telling me fan is locked so I can't change it.

    My Laptop:
    Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service
    System Manufacturer: Alienware
    System Model: m15x
    BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.1
    Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.5GHz
    Memory: 3070MB RAM
    Page File: 1551MB used, 4785MB available
    DirectX Version: DirectX 10
    Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX
    Driver Version: 8.16.0011.8681 (English)
    Driver Date/Size: 8/19/2009 13:35:00, 7660544 bytes


    Thanks everyone for reading and hopefully some advice. :(
     
    Blackvoid, Oct 5, 2009
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