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    asus g50vt-a1 bluescreen at startup

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by zakazak, Jul 25, 2010.

  1. zakazak

    zakazak www.whymacsucks.com

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    hi,i´m getting a bluescreen from tiem to time when booting. just when windows is loading the startup programs.

    should i upload the 2 files which "help describe the problem" ?

    thanks

    @edit: i disconnected the back led´s, the oled display and also overclock on the startup with following shortcut to 3,0ghz:
     
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    You disabled the OC and it's still doing that?
     
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    zakazak www.whymacsucks.com

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    ye it seems like its working now after i disabled the oc. but i also didnt had a bluescreen on every reboot.. only sometimes.

    did a 30min stresstest with the OC and stil lwas under 70C.
     
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    It might be too much for the system to do while starting up, maybe if you had it engage on a delayed start you'd see better results. Alternatively, there is a commandline switch that slowly revs up the FSB in set steps. A sudden jump from 200-238MHz has a higher chance of latency problems than a few smaller ones.
     
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    if its bluescreening at startup then your oc isn't as stable as you think, temperature isn't the best test for oc stability, its the errors that occur when oced and a bluescreen really is one of the first indicators of an unstable oc.

    have your prime95ed for 24hours?
     
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    Run IntelBurnTest and Furmark at the same time, for about 30 minutes. That should tell you quickly if the overclock is at fault for one reason or another.

    It's also possible, although unlikely, that the power brick could have trouble delivering enough power and be switching to battery on startup (I've seen this behavior on a Dell). The above test, if it works without bluescreens/reboots, would show such behavior in the system tray's power management icon.
     
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    Sometimes it isn't the OC itself, it's getting there that's the issue. Switching the FSB that dramatically has given me a bsod once or twice. It's otherwise stable in every test I've thrown at it.
     
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    zakazak www.whymacsucks.com

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    If i overclock with steps (like -i50) then i wouldnt have to whole 3,0ghz power on the startup ?

    I mean i dont have the OC during the boot of windows, i dont have the OC during the startup of all my startup programs.. after that i slowly get the 3,0ghz. But then all the "important" tasks are already gone. I nearly never reach 100% usage on both cores or reconize any lags except during startup process (i´m on a SSD already so it is quite fast.. but for example KIS 2010 takes alot of CPU usage at startup.. with 3,0ghz instead of 2,53 this would do better?).

    Anyway, i will try it with an increment.. 50 is fine or should i go higher? Strange is that it normally worked well wen i made big jumps (when i tested out the OC i even made jumps to 3,2 ghz without a BSOD).

    Will change the increment to what you suggest :)

    Also i will run 3dmark06 - CPU benachmark.

    Prime95ed.. whats that? :p

    I only did a cpu stresstest with Arthos for 30minutes without any errors and temps below 70C.
     
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    Prime95 is another stress test but Orthos should be sufficient. I'm not sure what increment to use, as I myself have never used it, but others on this forum have. Prime95 (32bit) - 25.11 Download - EXTREME Overclocking
    From what I hear, 5-10MHz is sufficient, it'll just ramp it up slowly. 50 is more than your overclock in the first place so -i50 wouldn't do anything. -i10 or so would probably do better. Maybe try for like -i20 at first (so it increases in two steps, 200 -> 220 -> 238), and if you get a BSOD, decrease the increment size.

    Follow? That was a bit confusing I think.
     
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    yeye got it :)

    well i rly dislike that i dont have the full OC from the startup then. If i use an increment i will be at the 3Ghz when all the programs have loaded already and i think the startup process itself would get slower due to setfsb overclocking for 5 seconds or smth ?