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    G73 BSOD 116 error. GPU is dead...

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Azamatka, Jul 16, 2010.

  1. Azamatka

    Azamatka Notebook Guru

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    Hi all.

    It seems I've just joined the company of those, who childishly thought they would avoid the hassle with Asus warranty and support.

    I use my lappy as a gaming laptop, playing mostly Dragon Age and such stuff, but that very day (day before yesterday) I left it just with open Word document and left my room for a couple of hours. When I returned, the G73's was all blue, all screen and all death.

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    The windows starts only in safe mode or with drivers uninstalled. Initially I thought it was driver problem, so I tried different drivers - all 10's and even the one from asus support site - nothing worked. With the drivers installed the system would not start and would only experience constant BSOD reboot.

    116 BSOD, to my knowledge, means that GPU is done and dead.

    RMA... Bought G73-A1 in States, live in UK, will travel to Russia soon. Seems the whole warranty repair thing is going to be a nightmare for me...
     
    Azamatka, Jul 16, 2010
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  2. Esparoba2

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    If the GPU was dead you would probably have a lot of artifacts, stripes, discoloring or even no video output at all.
    Judging from your picture the ati driver has gone crazy.
    Have you tried uninstalling al its remains with Driver Sweeper in safe mode?
     
    Esparoba2, Jul 16, 2010
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  3. Tim4

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    Don't be so pessimistic. Try to restore your windows from hidden partition. For me GPU is dead when there is no picture at display at all. So, hope for the best. Error 116 refers not only for "dead gpu", it also refer to video drivers. It easily could be some problems with your OS. Try to restore and see if that will help. Good luck!
     
    Tim4, Jul 16, 2010
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  4. DCx

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    Do a quick search of g51 bsod, sounds like the same(ish) problem.
     
    DCx, Jul 16, 2010
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  5. rorage

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    I had a similar problem due to overheating, try last known good configuration (when your computer starts press f8 maniacally)
     
    rorage, Jul 16, 2010
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    Could always consider using the recovery disk, if your gpu is dead, your screen wouldn't be blue :)
     
    smile_gerard, Jul 16, 2010
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    mindinversion, Jul 16, 2010
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  8. Azamatka

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    Did it another way.

    1. Completely formatted the hard drive and installed Ubuntu 10.4.
    2. Downloaded and activated the ATI driver.
    3. Got crash.
    4. Called Asus for RMA.
     
    Azamatka, Jul 17, 2010
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