VSOD on G73 w/ ATI 5870

Currently I get a consistant crash with my new G73 while playing Borderlands. After about 10 minutes it crashes with the "Verticle Stripes of Death" (VSOD - white and colored lines, sometimes with noise requiring a hard restart).

I currently have the 10.8 drivers and have removed all the Creative drivers. My BIOS is 211.

I see many people with the same issue saying they are RMAing their notebook. What is the word on this issue? Any advice on what I can try to fix it?

 

Ok... I will ask first... Did you check the GSOD Blues thread that is stickied for a reason yet before posting this?

 

I guess he didn't know VSOD = GSOD

 

Yes I have seen many posts stating that GSOD was completely different from VSOD.... but they are the same?

From what I gather I need to update my vBIOS??? I know how to check my BIOS version how do I know what version my vBIOS is??


EDIT: what vBIOS should I flash? Mr Key posts one and then Chastity posts another version on the same page....

 

read what the differences are. I list them

 

This is so weird because I read through that thread but never noticed the VSOD/GSOD relation.

Chastity: your vBIOS is with Overdrive the other is without... I have no idea what overdrive is so I must not have it.

 

OverDrive is a tab in CCC to allow for overclocking.

 

Arguable, but no, neither completely different nor the same.

VSOD crashes every 3D app on "stock" Asus drivers (9.12 & 10.1). It can take up to 15 minutes, but it will crash using different color backgrounds that are usually related to a significant color being displayed in game just before the crash. It appears to be rare and when the VGA was replaced, there wasn't a single crash on Asus drivers, nor ATi for that matter (back in March).

GSOD crashes unpredictably on ATi drivers.

I wouldn't know how long you used Asus drivers before you installed that ATi 10.8, but if you took the time to run a bunch of 3D apps on your stock drivers and never crashed, you don't have a VSOD. You likely just have the run of the mill GSOD and the beta vBIOS is supposed to solve this.

Hope you get it worked out.

Q

 

You have 10.8 ATI and 211 Bios. How about the vBios? Because if you didn't update your vBios and you are using the stocked vbios while using the updated catalyst for ATI the result is incompatibility.

 

What is recommended when downloading the ati update what option should i get?

I see 4 of them..

 

Assuming you're referring to the AMD download site - only the "Full Software Suite" has the driver.

 

Thank you <marks>

 

What? My CCC used to have an update tab my information and version on the bottom now it doesn't. I have the g73jh-bst7, best buy version. I'm currently using DriverUpdate and FixCleaner to keep everything up to date, they're both free so i can't complain. Is there a better drive update program? the CCC before 10.8 or 11.8 or whatever was the one with the update tab now it doesn't have it. I still have a bit of freeze issues. Not freeze but just 2-3 seconds of image freeze and sound looping, then it comes back. Plz Help?

 

Your display driver is resetting lower your overclocks. The screen will freeze for 5 seconds, go blank and then return. That is the driver resetting itself after crashing.