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    GSOD is just annoying, seems to happen for no specific reason.

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by thegreatsquare, May 14, 2010.

  1. thegreatsquare

    thegreatsquare Notebook Deity

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    I've started getting the GSOD with the stripes this week. I updated to 10.4 and that didn't help. Last night it happened with Dragon Age: Origins and the night before that it happened with Torchlight. [...of all things, TORCHLIGHT! Really?]

    *I don't have any overclock.

    Both of the last two crashes happened with a very good cooler homemade that is not run off of the laptop.

    After the Torchlight crash I stress tested the GPU with OCCT and VMT for the memory.

    *OCCT had no errors.

    *VMT had no errors


    After the Dragon Age crash last night in the first 20 minutes, I ran DA for another 4+ Hrs with no problem.

    After that I took the cooler off and let the Heaven 2.0 benchmark loop run for over an hour with no problem.

    I don't want to RMA it because it I'm not even sure they'd find a problem. I'm not going to flash it because I'm not good with that and I don't wreck the warranty.

    I'm at a loss as for what to do here.
     
    thegreatsquare, May 14, 2010
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  2. maev

    maev Notebook Guru

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    There's very clear instruction how to flash your card in another GSOD topic. It comes with a safe switch, you can always revert the changes. I have been told to not RMA because they will just be stubborn enough to say, that everything works on stock drivers and that wait for an update is needed.

    Perhaps you could just try to flash, we are all helpful here if something goes wrong.
     
    maev, May 14, 2010
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  3. thegreatsquare

    thegreatsquare Notebook Deity

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    I paid the extra for the two year hazard warranty @ Bestbuy in case something went really wrong and I don't want to void that, so I'm not going to throw away the $300 extra I spent a month into ownership.
     
    thegreatsquare, May 14, 2010
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  4. dkillone

    dkillone Notebook Evangelist

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    Since you got it at BB then, just go and exchange it. This happened to Mew, and an exchange solved his problem.

    Pretty much all you can do, if your getting GSODs on stock drivers, you really need to send it back, because that's when even flashing it may not work anyways.
     
    dkillone, May 14, 2010
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  5. Chastity

    Chastity Company Representative

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    in the meantime, you could try VGA_ATI_Win7_32_64_z869210 from Asus' DRIVER page. They're a bit newer than stock drivers and are stable.
     
    Chastity, May 14, 2010
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  6. DeweyJuice

    DeweyJuice Notebook Guru

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    Do you know which catalyst version these Asus drivers are? Just curious how old you have to go with the drivers to make it work and how much risk there is with being stuck with one old driver forever.
     
    DeweyJuice, May 15, 2010
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