G50VT-X1 dreaded "display driver stopped responding"

Well this blows i got the laptop friday and have been dealing with an apparent hardware issue all weekend.

Ive tried all the drivers under the sun and have installed windows about 5 times lol but i still get this error "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered"

it only occurs during gaming and i can seem to control it the more cooling i have

so before i exchange it, has anyone with a g50vt had and solved this issue?

 

I had this issue with my HP not my G50. Had it with games that were pushing the graphics card, whenever Vista thought the game had stalled it would do that to me.

There is a way to force it from not doing that and i dont remember what it was but its like a test mode that microsoft says to not stay in.

 

Ok. your MXM Geforce 9800m GS is broken. If your laptop is still under warranty, use it. If not, you must try underclocking the video card with NiBiTor (backup your BIOS with nvflash, edit BIOS with NiBiTor, and reflash again). I did it and it works 'fine'

GPU=400
Shaders=800
Memory=400

6000 Average 3dmark2006 with no hangs, no BSoD, no black screen, no display driver blah blah... but you couldn't set up AA in all the games. I tried setup 2xAA with Street Fighter 4 benchmark and 'display driver... crap thing' without AA works all OK.

I'm sorry for my bad english.

PD. I hate stupid refurbished laptops and 'outlet' BB laptops.

 

the problem could be that installinc a copy of windows OVER another copy is bad. You have to completely wipe then reinstall windows. Did you try it that way?

 

I got that error a few times when I was overclocking, it would give me the error because my voltage was not high enough. I would exchange it, if you could. Sounds like a problem with your video card.