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    GREEN screen of death???

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by danielfc3, Dec 30, 2010.

  1. danielfc3

    danielfc3 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey people! Been clear of here a while as i've had no problems but now i'm back, surprise.

    My problem is, my Asus G73JH-A1 keeps randomly crashing. The screen goes a green colour, with darker green stripes going vertically down the screen. It's a complete lock up, ctr alt del doesnt work, and i have to restart, which i dont like doing. This has not happened until the last week or so. It USUALLY happens when i am playing FIFA11 online but not always.

    I wiped my lappy months ago, clean installed windows 7 via the instructions on this site, installed my own Momentus Hybrid HDD, and it has been running fine for roughly...2 months before this problem occured.

    Any solutions or anything? Or am i just completely knackered?

    EDIT: 15 minutes since i posted this, and the laptop crashed again :S this time no green screen, just a complete screen freeze ON this page, had to restart again. What on earth is going on here?
     
    danielfc3, Dec 30, 2010
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  2. Ruckus

    Ruckus Notebook Deity

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    Check your ram.

    http://www.memtest.org/

    If anything wrong, believe you can you ask Asus to send replacement. They may ask you to RMA though. Luckily ram is cheap right now also.
     
    Ruckus, Dec 30, 2010
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  3. danielfc3

    danielfc3 Notebook Consultant

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    Wow....i really have no idea what to do on that link haha!!! I hope i dont have to RMA it though, i'm in the UK and bought it from the US :S
     
    danielfc3, Dec 30, 2010
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  4. rschauby

    rschauby Superfluously Redundant

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    Did you update your VBios?
     
    rschauby, Dec 30, 2010
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  5. danielfc3

    danielfc3 Notebook Consultant

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    I updated my bios to 211 earlier in the summer, even before i done a clean install....
     
    danielfc3, Dec 30, 2010
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  6. <MarkS>

    <MarkS> Notebook Village Idiot

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    That's your system board firmware (BIOS).

    Have you updated your display adapter's firmware ( VBIOS) as described here? If not, you probably should :)
     
    <MarkS>, Dec 30, 2010
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  7. Chastity

    Chastity Company Representative

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    Sounds like a definite GSOD problem. You can get the fix above or use my link below. Scroll up to original post for instructions. You'll need a bootable USB drive formatted in FAT/FAT32. BTW, what ATI Catalyst drivers are you using?
     
    Chastity, Dec 31, 2010
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