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    G73SW NVIDIA Grsphis Driver Issue!

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by FF-FANATIC, Jul 1, 2011.

  1. FF-FANATIC

    FF-FANATIC Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi everyone.

    I'm having a serious problem with my G73SW-A1 laptop which seems to be escalating day by day ( I'm getting this problem at least once a day now). The problem begins when my screen suddenly starts flickering coupled with a constant reappearing message from the taskbar which says something like my "NVIDIA Grsphis Driver has stopped working and that Windows has recovered successfully" and finally the laptop freezes up and I'm forced to shut it down. Please note that I did not update any driver or utility (such as NVIDIA, BIOS and all other ASUS utlities) but instead left them as they were when I bought my laptop. However, my Windows 7 64bit is always up to date.

    Therefore, could anyone please provide me with a solution to this problem?


    P.S.
    My factory default NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460m driver is 8.17.12.6114
     
    FF-FANATIC, Jul 1, 2011
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  2. Evanescent

    Evanescent Notebook Deity

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    I'm not sure what the problem is but I think it's worth a try to update your GPU driver.
     
    Evanescent, Jul 1, 2011
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  3. Chastity

    Chastity Company Representative

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    If the only thing you have changed are Windows Updates, then you got an update that is causing conflicts. I'd roll back using System Restore to a point where it wasn't crashing, and then let WU update one at a time.

    Sometimes doing them all at once causes a conflict.

    Or get standalone installers and do it that way, if available.
     
    Chastity, Jul 1, 2011
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  4. kimiraikkonen

    kimiraikkonen Notebook Evangelist

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    Using G53JW and Win7 x64 SP1, i NEVER got driver update recommendations by Windows Update, all the updates (hotfixes) are related to Windows or security components or the 3rd party hotfixes (eg for Visual Studio). Why is that?
     
    kimiraikkonen, Jul 2, 2011
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  5. Chastity

    Chastity Company Representative

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    I've seen people have stability issues updating Visual Studio C++ 2008 Runtimes :D

    It's not that the driver was updated, but that some other Win 7 update installed inproperly, and thanks to an antiquated Registry system, it corrupts things in unusual ways.
     
    Chastity, Jul 2, 2011
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