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    Graphics Card stopped responding

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Delimeat567, Jan 22, 2009.

  1. Delimeat567

    Delimeat567 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey everyone, I have an ASUS G50Vt-X2 and I have recently been experiencing an odd bug. Whenever I play Warhammer Online or Lord of the Rings Online every now and again the screen will black out and then appear again. It is not a game specific bug.

    Anyone know what is going on? After awhile the program will usually close and tell me the display dirver had stopped and has recovered.

    All your insight is appreciated! I will subscribe to this thread to keep you all as updated as possible with any questions you might have regarding my situation!
     
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  2. WILLY S

    WILLY S I was saying boo-urns

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    Update your driver.

    You'll probably never find a single driver that works perfectly for every game so when you run into a little bug like this one try a new one.
     
    WILLY S, Jan 22, 2009
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  3. Delimeat567

    Delimeat567 Notebook Consultant

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    I was using the drivers, can't remember the website, that were converted from Desktop to Laptop, I'l go ahead and switch back to the official ones from Nvidia.

    In case anyon wanted to know my specs are:
    Duo P8600 2.4 Ghz
    4GB RAM
    320 GB HDD
    Vista Home Premium x64
    Nvidia GeForce 9800 GS 512MB RAM
     
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  4. WILLY S

    WILLY S I was saying boo-urns

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    I've had a good experience with 180.84. Nvidia also provide drivers off their site now which are apparantly very good too :)
     
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    Delimeat567 Notebook Consultant

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    Yea those are the ones I have used so far. Here is the exact error message, it is an extremely common problem among Vista users so if any moderator could move this to a Vista forum that would be nice! Thanks!

    display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered
     
    Delimeat567, Jan 22, 2009
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