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    P-7805u display driver problem

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by dekapitatorr, Jun 23, 2011.

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    dekapitatorr Newbie

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    Did somebody ever encounter this weird issue on this notebook? Even without doing anything, my notebook suddenly becomes unresponsive, then the monitor would flicker and then it returns back to the desktop and theres a notification that the display drivers stopped responding and has recovered. This happens at least 5x/hr. Even worse when watching movies on the notebook. Almost every 5 mins it happens. Anybody has a solution for this? These are my specs: 9C.17.00 BIOS, DOX 195.62 GFX drivers, WINDOWS 7 SP1 x64.
     
    dekapitatorr, Jun 23, 2011
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    Watching movies as in DVD, streaming or?
     
    TANWare, Jun 23, 2011
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    dekapitatorr Newbie

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    dvds, avi's, mp4's. and it even happens while Im AFK.
     
    dekapitatorr, Jun 23, 2011
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    DemonBG Notebook Guru

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    my guess would have been the old problem Nvidia drivers randomly had when they crashed... but i have never had that problem with DOCx drivers... Does it also happen when you are gaming as well?


    Take care,
    Demon
     
    DemonBG, Jun 24, 2011
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    dekapitatorr Newbie

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    Yeah. Even non system hog games like PvZ crashes the video card. Really weird problem this one..
     
    dekapitatorr, Jun 24, 2011
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    Evil Claw Notebook Evangelist

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    Mine did this too, although, it was not as frequent as yours. I wound up uninstalling drivers and reinstalled the same drivers from gateway that I had on there. Don't have my NB with me at moment, but I do still have the 9.17 bios.
     
    Evil Claw, Jun 28, 2011
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    dam718 Notebook Enthusiast

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    When I first got my P7805u it was doing this all the time.

    My screen would flicker, and just freeze up with what looked like white noise all over the screen. I took it back and ended up going through 3 P7805U's before I finally figured out the problem (With mine anyway).

    We thought it was the hard drive... Replaced, and nothing...

    Thought it was the CPU... Replaced the computer and same thing...

    Installed new nVIDIA drivers... No change

    What finally fixed it was a registry edit that permanently disabled the PowerMizer feature of the card. Powermizer basically jockeys the clock speed of the GPU all over the place in order to keep temperatures controlled. The problem is, at the desktop (Running Aero in Vista/Win 7) your GPU runs pretty cool, so powermizer drops your clock speed down to minimum... As soon as you do something with the Aero desktop, powermizer never increases the clock speed and it freezes your machine. The only way to kick powermizer off was to start up a full on 3d app, and someimes that didn't work either.

    Some of the 9800M GTS GPU's work fine with powermizer enabled, but a ton of them do exactly what you have described here.

    The registry edit is not for the faint of heart, as you are adding keys to Windows 7 which don't exist by default, and it's easy to dork it up pretty bad.

    I would recommend an open source app called Powermizer Manager which does all the dirty work for you. You can get it here.

    Good luck, let us know how it goes!
     
    dam718, Jun 30, 2011
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    Primeval187 Newbie

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    I had the same problem. After i downloaded the latest driver 275.27 , a little time later it started to stop responding and recovering 5 times an hour. During any game play it just froze the game completely. So i just went back to a older driver and the problem went away.
     
    Primeval187, Jul 11, 2011
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