P6831FX Black Screen

This just started today so not sure if its maybe the vid driver (using 169 from laptopvideo) but laptop display just goes black. I have a GPU temp monitor going and its only hitting around 54C and about 80C when gaming. I have to powerswitch it off and back on and it comes back up fine, but in the past 3 hours or so its black screened twice.

Just wondering if anyone has any ideas as to what this could be or should I take it back to BB and exchange it out. Thanks in advance for any tips

 

Same here for Me but only get Black screen when Playing Tabula Rasa. Other games like Crysis and COD4 and Bioshock are fine. Using same drivers that you are using LaptopVideo2go drivers 169.28.

 

I was just curious if either one of you setup your power plan settings at all. I know when I first got my laptop it was set in there to shut the screen down after 20 minutes and when that would kick in my screen would go black or blank but when you press a button everything came back up.

 

80C..are you over clocking?

 

Negative not Overclocking at all, was running a game at the time tho. 80C while playing DDO settings were on High.

Things I have done to it include swapping the processor out to a 9300 and adding another HD for raid 0. Not sure if any of that could be playing a factor as well. I left it running tho while I am at work and if I go home and its Black screened im probaly going to take it back.

Flamearc I did change those settings as well b/c I heard about that happening, and thought maybe that was what it could be. Thanks for the tip tho.

 

Double check your power settings, I know I've changed mine, and for some reason they reverted back to the original settings.

I also noticed that my gpu temp jumped to 75C after running a 3x loop of 3dmark06..gpu at stock clocks.

 

I'll double check when I head home for lunch.
On a side note is 80C tho to hot for a non overclock? I have honestly never really payed much attention to GPU temps. This is my first laptop so not sure how there cooling works.

 

To be honest, I don't really know myself, up till now all of my gaming has been with my desktop PC. All of my desktop cooling is modded so the gpu never goes above 61C and that's after 2hrs straight gaming.

Make sure the vents under your laptop are not being blocked that will create a heat issue also.

 

My 7900GS will hit 80C in a heartbeat. I was just curious, so asked about the OC. I don't think, IMHO, that 80 to 85C is anything to worry about. If the 7900 has a slow protect at 100C, why not the 8800? Me, I'm not worried.

Alex, you might want to drop back to original divers and run test again. Other than Bioshock in DX10, I find other drivers ain't all that, of course ymmv.

I forgot to add that I'm running 16909 drivers but no problems detected over several games.

 

do any of you use free gpu monitors? if so which ones?

 

I've used Nvidia Monitor with Ntune. I enable event logging anytime i want to see what temps my gpu is running at during a specific time frame