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    Bluescreen on my G73jh

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Garland, Feb 4, 2011.

  1. Garland

    Garland Notebook Guru

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    i recently bought my G73jh,all of the games i played worked so far.Then i testen GTA4: episodes of liberty city and after about 20 minutes playtime i get a bluescreen in which "atikmpg.sys" is mentioned.i have win 7 64bit version and the catalyst mobility 11.1 installed. ive read that this bluescreen comes from a driver problem,should i just install one version before 11.1 ?
     
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  2. Jody

    Jody Notebook Deity

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    Wow. I had exactly the same BSOD with 10.12 but it never did it in the middle of a game. It did it while idle. I think it was happening just as the screen tried to go to sleep. I haven't had any of that with 11.1 and very few people ever reported it with 10.12.

    I hope others have better advice for you. I think I would flash to Chastity's vBIOS which is in her driver guide. Remove 11.1. Run DriverSweeper in safe mode to clear out the remnants of 11.1, and finally reinstall 11.1. If you still have BSOD (I don't think you will) then try 10.10. It was pretty darn stable.

    You will like Chastity's version of the vBIOS. It idles your GPUat 405MHz when not gaming. It ramps to 500MHz to play videos and then ramps to full clock speed to play games. It also enables Overdrive in case you ever want to bump your GPU clocks up past stock a little bit.
     
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  3. Garland

    Garland Notebook Guru

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    okay thanks. yeah im gonna try to reinstall 11.1,if it doesnt work ill install 10.10. i dont think that im gonna use the vBIOS there because i actually dont get this BSOD, or xSODs in generall, in any other game. maybe its just the 11.1. thanks for your advice ill post results later on
     
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  4. Garland

    Garland Notebook Guru

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    ok, ive installed 10.10 now. so far no bluescreen nice! game running really smooth :)
     
    Garland, Feb 5, 2011
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    Sometimes when I am shutting down my laptop BSOD interrupts it or while exiting some applications. Why?
     
    Hedonist, Feb 5, 2011
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    Go the the event viewer and try to find out what's causing the crash.
     
    svl7, Feb 6, 2011
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  7. Typecast

    Typecast NBR's Tamed Zombie

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    I used to have bsod when i first got my g73, around 3 times. But after around 2weeks time. BSOD's are gone. :D
     
    Typecast, Feb 6, 2011
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