G73SW shuts down while gaming, but not even hot?

Hi Guys. I bought a new G73 about 2 weeks ago, and after some semi heavy use, today its just constantly shutting down. I'm monitoring the heat of the GPU and mobo and they both idle in the 30s. When I'm gaming and it gets to the mid 60s it will always black screen on me. I still hear sound but at this point its basically dead and I need to manually shut down and restart.

I don't understand why this is happening because as far as I've read nvidia gpus have at least a 100 celsius thermal shutdown and this is nowhere near that.

Any ideas? I really haven't even installed anything except games! Latest nvidia drivers, and ran the asus update on the first day, but only had this problem today. I distinctly remember seeing temperatures of 70 celsius the first couple days when I was monitoring it, so I have no clue whats the problem here. Its like the thermal shutdown threshold has somehow been lowered to a ridiculously low level. I even have a massive laptop fan and am sitting in a cool room so there is no way its getting too hot.

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the main problem is that this is happening minutes into games, so its not like a infrequent occurance. I basically cannot use this laptop for what I bought it for.

 

Did you try updating to the latest drivers? Here's a link...

NVIDIA DRIVERS 275.33 WHQL

 

Yep, I have the 275.33 drivers installed. I rolled back to factory ones and its the same. As I said it seems like once it hits 65 degrees it just shuts down

 

All I could say is check your e-driver (an ASUS software installed) and check what's still installed . Have you removed all the bloatware already. There are somethings like Express gate cloud utility, Intel Management Engine components driver, ATK packages etc.. that needs to be there.

I don't know why yours shutsdown during gameplay. In my case with my G73SW, I've OC'ed back and forth and never encounter such problems. My temp. usually sits highest at 76*C when OC'ed to 825Mhz GPU clock which I only tried for The Witcher 2 out of curiosity and got up to 50+FPS in 1920x1080p and runs stable. CPU temp is like 68*C.

All my other games such as Oblivion, Dragon Age Origins, Star Craft 2, Fallout3 and Fallout New Vegas all runs at stock GPU clock in high and ultra setting with no problems using either 270.61 or 275.33 whql driver. I've finished The Witcher 2 in stock GPU clock also in 1080p. Yours shouldn't be shutting down at the temps. you mentioned.

Maybe check your OS too. But check the e-driver software maybe you're missing an important file. I'm also using MSI Afterburner for checking my gpu temp. I leave fraps and msi afterburner on while playing to check fps and highest temp. reached. Also using Core temp and leaving it on while playing to check cpu temp. Try deleting the 3D Vision driver and 3D Vision control panel driver, I have mine deleted. Are you able to watch DVD or blue ray with your SW or connect it to a TV?

I've had my G73SW for 2 months now and it's been problem-free really.

 

Similar sounding problems here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...543645-g73jw-shuts-down-if-i-pulled-plug.html

and here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...rd-problems-asus-g73jw-a1-13.html#post7097551

 

Maybe the thermal pads on the GPU aren't perfect. The system monitors the GPU itself, not the temps on the memory. This would cause your issues and not see the problem on the sensors.