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    p-6860 crashes in fs mode on games

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Hendel, Mar 9, 2009.

  1. Hendel

    Hendel Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey,
    Just recently I've been crashing(requiring hard-reboot, the screen goes black and whatever sound happend last plays on repeat) in FullScreen mode while playing 3d video games.

    This didn't use to happen.
    I updated my graphics driver according to the stickied guide. But it still crashes when i'm in FullScreen. I haven't had it crash while i play in windowed mode.

    In windowed mode i'm seeing my GPU temp get up to 91degrees celcius (w/out crashing)

    But if i go into fullscreen mode it crashes soon after.

    Any ideas on how i should try to fix this?

    Have a p-6860. I haven't overclocked anything, everything is running stock.

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    Believe I solved the problem. I was undervolting my cpu. And although my cpu performed w/out any problems under a cpu stress test for 2 hours... 15 minutes of 3d gaming seems to kill it.
    I have set my voltage for my cpu back to default settings and haven't experienced a crash yet while gaming
     
    Hendel, Mar 9, 2009
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  2. Phasio

    Phasio Notebook Consultant

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    Try and re-install the game
     
    Phasio, Mar 9, 2009
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  3. Starcub

    Starcub Notebook Consultant

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    That's extremely odd. I would have thought it was either your video driver, or perhaps your CPU falling victim to the Nvidia mobile GPU defect. Have you checked your temps recently?
     
    Starcub, Mar 9, 2009
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