Tired of GSOD? look here.

First sorry for my poor English, it is not my first language.
All thing here are done at YOUR OWN RISK
There is 2 way ( that I know) to workaround the GSOD.

The choice will depend mostly if you need HDMI or not.

HDMI USERS

If you need the HDMI, you simply must use the driver supplied with ASUS downloadable from here under VGA.

*If you have problem to run opengl software like Furmark crashing on start*: normally this doesnt happen on fresh install. It only occur on a system that got a newer driver installed

1- Uninstall the driver using the catalyst uninstall from programs and feature.

2- After that go to device manager and remove the videocard listed there (it may be a standart vga controler or radeon 5800 series) if you have the option to tick (delete the driver software for this device) do so.

3- go to a command prompt.
and type with the quote : sc delete "AMD External Events Utility"

4- go to windows\system32 all FILES (not folders) starting with ati...... (be intelligent on this one, you may have other file that "could" be beginning with ati .

5- same thing on windows\SysWOW64

6- Reboot and install the Asus driver (Version V8.683.0.0)

7- Happy furmark and gsod free. (only if you got no problem with your temps of course)

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NO NEED FOR HDMI USERS
The other option, is for people that want the latest driver and doesn't care for HDMI.

For those, simply flash you Vbios with the MSI one that I provide here

*DO NOT USE THE ONE FROM MSI SITE! They have updated it and it seem incompatible with the G73* mine is the revision before the update.

I strongly recommend flashing it under dos from a boot disk and flashing it with a usb flash drive.



So you got your 2 option. for hdmi user, you may not have the latest driver install but you have a fully working system and its not GSOD.

for non HDMI, well its simple you got no HDMI but have the latest improvement from recent drivers revision.

We will need a new bios or Vbios from asus to have a Fully feature G73 with HDMI and no gsod under the latest cat. Until that we will have to wait / use workaround like those in this guide.

I hope this guide was somewhat useful to someone.


Edit: Original G73 Vbios here just in case you change your mind after a vbios change.

 

The one think i can't understand it's why the obsession with Fumark. It's the same if you said: "the chassis of my laptop is heavily resistant so I decided to light a flamethrower on it to see it's resists t or not to hot ambients"... at the end you gonna melt your computer just because it's a totally artificial condition.

In my side, I have GSOD with referential ATI drivers (10.5-10.7) but with stock ones (9.12 or 10.1 from website) my laptop runs perfect, no GSOD at all. Just waiting for either new ASUS driver or vBIOS or combination of both, but the laptop runs perfect so far in: Starcraft 2, Crysis, MW1, MW2, Dirt, GoW, Batman Arkham Asylum and any game test so far. If I have GSOD with stock drivers I'm start worry about it. And yes, I would DO NOT HAVE any GSOD with any driver just to enjoy the newer optimizations in the drivers for GAMES, not for Fumark.

BTW, thanks for yours tips, probably works for someone else. For me, I installed stock after normal uninstall of reference ATi and no problems so far. And I'm heavy HDMI user

 

Furmark is only a example of a opengl program problem that may occur and I provided a way to fix it. nothing more , nothing less.
For me, installing stock after removing reference, will cause furmark to not launch so thats is why I provide a fix for it just in case some users have the same prob.
I'm not suggesting anyone to run furmark.

 

No complain against you or any users which like to run bench to stress the hardware. Just try to understand why people try to fry theirs system.

 

Yeah I dont know either. This guide was to fix gsod while Gaming in mind. Personally I just use furmark for Temp checking. and on my side it was a fast way to know if my gsod are solve or not. I'm not the kind of person to benchmark with it for hours.
I prefer to play games

 

Nice work.

I'm stable with Overclocked GPU 705/1100, BIOS 209 and cat 10.7a overwritting the old 10.1, no GSOD or overheating problems.

I hope the next g73 official BIOS + newest CCC combo solves our issues once for all.

 

Thanks wagnard, fumark working and busy loading Operation Flashpoint as it was doing the same as fumark. Will give feedback. Can I suggest Driversweeper from Guru3d.com for your step 4 & 5 it even found registry entries that where removed.

 

Thanks again Flashpoint working now !

 

No problem .
I cant really recommend driversweeper because I did not try it. If you think its good, feel free to use it.

 

Driver sweeper misses alot of registry entries. If you want to do it properly youll have to run regedit in safe mode and clean the registry yourself if you know where to look.
If youre interested in a test of how badly it cleans, install 10.6 drivers and uninstall them and run driver sweeper in safe mode and install 10.1 drivers and in CCC it will still show 10.6 since driver sweeper didnt clean that entry and the 10.1 drivers are missing that line in the inf file so it doesnt get overwritten.
It cleans something, so its a tool for inexpirienced users to get a few more keys from the registry, but it misses alot of them, so its really a joke if you ask me...

 

I approve HellCry. Just tryed it and its true, it missed a lot of important thing.

 

I am just glad mine is back to normal, will leave all the experimentation to you guys, and watch for improvements before doing something again.