bsod gaming problem

Hi all, i bought my new laptop about 6 months ago, it is a HP HDX 18T.
Spec:
quad core 2.0ghz q9000
4gb ram
650gb rom
nvidea 130m

I play MW2 now but came from the previous cod games. When im playing the laptop will randomly blue screen, this could be after 20 mins or an hour. I get different messages as well, which are usually -

'driver irql not less or equal' or 'page fault in non paged area'.

I have looked elsewhere on the net but havent came up with much that is gaming related, do you think it could be just overheating or is it something more serious. The graphics card should be more than capable of running the game and im pulling my hair out.

One more thing, when it blue screens the sound jams and i get a constant sound.

Any help would be fantastic as im looking forward to bad company coming out and would like it sorted before then.

Many thanks in advance.

 

Download HWMonitor from google and monitor your temps while gaming, just leave it open and alt+tab once in a while to see the values, be carefull to do it before it bsods.
Another question would be if you ever undervolted your cpu or gpu?
Other then that, i have no ideea. Does this happen to all games ot specificlly on this one?
What OS are u running?

 

Last laptop I had that had symptoms similar to what you're describing (BSOD under graphic/gaming load) was a combined heat/motherboard issue. Best I can determine repeated heat issues eventually blew something on the board or graphics card =- as the unhappy ending to my story was after fighting the BSOD issue for a while, the computer died, and now gathers dust as a useless paperweight beside my desk. (Good timing on that, too, as it failed at the 16 month point, having a one-year warranty... )

Why do I mention this? Your comment on 'heat, or maybe something more serious'... heat can be serious - don't take it lightly.

But, yeah, grab a heat monitoring program (I use HWmonitor on my new system, so I'd recommend that too) and take a look. That will at least get you started on diagnostics - if it's heat, you'll know, and if it's not, you'll have eliminated one possible trouble source.

 

download Who Crashed to see if it gives you a better idea.

 

hi, thanks for your responses.
Im at work atm but will try hwmonitor and who crashed when i can. The reason i dont think its a heat issue is because there is no usuall length of time before it crashes. i.e the other night it crashed twice in two hours yet today i played for an hour and half and it never crashed once.

In response to your questions the crashing is not game specific and i am running windows vista 64 bit.

Also im not sure what you mean by undervolting. When i've googled the bsod's power supply has been mentioned. I bought the laptop from the states but i live in uk, so i have to run plug into a uk adapter from the two pin to three, so do you think that could be an issue?

 

It could be a heat or driver issue.. generally its a heat issue... even i had it but no problems now... but first check ur temps using CPUID Hardware monitor... it could also be a GPU issue so update ur Graphics card driver...

 

I have the same problem as you and from what I've researched it comes down to either GPU drivers, bad RAM or a messed up power board. I do find that the problems are minimised when I restart the PC once just before a gaming session.

 

Yes could be bad power supply issues, but i'm talking in the motherboard, like the T61/p series of ThinkPads had a known mobo defect where the RAM modules did not get a stable power supply, causing them to be unstable and crash, but only when both DIMM module slots were occupied. Take one DIMM out if you can and then play, if you don't get any BSODs for a longer time then you know that's the problem.

 

Those messages sound like bad RAM to me, I have seen a number of situations where the same has happened, and it was due to RAM problems. I suggest that you download and run memtest86.

 

been running hwmonitor and it has maxed out at about 80 degrees. Is this high? What sort of temperature should i be worried about? .

Also someone mentioned updating the bios, do you think this could help?

 

Make sure you have the latest chipset/MB drivers from HP. Alot of gaming issues can be traced back to that. Is your CPU 80 degrees? or your GPU? 80 degrees isn't going to cause a BSOD. And like Shadow said, run memtest and see if there are RAM problems.

After you've identified the cause of the BSOD you can undervolt to reduce CPU temperatures, use this guide: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=235824.

Good luck!

 

Also do the fix in the following thread for ur GPU... it managed to drop idle temps and also dropped gaming temps with GPU overclocked by 10C... link below... get a notebook cooling pad to.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=456313

 

I ran memtest and when i started opening mutiple copies for the number of cores it found about 17 errors! Then it blue screened with 'page fault in non paged area', this is the first time ive had a bsod when not in a game so im putting it down to bad ram.

i will take one stick out and retest it and then the other to see if its just one stick of ram or both. I'll let you know what happens.
Hope its not both because its pretty expensive ram