Quadro 140M update DirectX = Blue Screen

Hi everyone, I have had a rocky road since opening the T61 box 2 days ago.

Out of the box I started by installing 3DMark06 because I wanted to see how the 140M does under real use ( IE with all the junk I like to run going ). By doing this, it needs to install some type of DirectX udpate, when the udpate is installed, I will get random blue screens of death.

I am fairly sure it is the DirectX update causing this, as I used System restore to backtrace ( Launching Coretemp will always cause the blue screen ). I crashed until I removed DirectXc update. The laptop has DirectX 9c according to its dxdiag, so I am not sure what is going on. My normal reaction would be to update by video card drivers......... but they are uptodate. I also went to Microsoft.com and downloaded the latest DirectX from them, and still the same thing.

The blue screen seems to come at random when launching applications that have fancy UIs ( the 3Dmark programs crashed at random not only at launch but also during the test, Oblivion crashed at random) , Coretemp crashes everytime, and changing screens using Presentation Manager seems to do it too.

Now if I remove the DirectX update...... it goes away. Coretemp seems to be a good gauge as to whether it is gone - I am not sure why though. I think it may be related to DirectX and the COM+ services.

Anyone had anything like this?

Also since noone responded to my other post - if I leave my external 22" plugged into the VGA port my thinkpad gets all confused at bootup and makes it the primary, and drops down to the lowest resolution the card can provide. The thinkpad screen will be completely unusable and switching to it will cause an error message.


To me this all reaks of a poor driver for the 140M, but that is a very broad statement. So take it with a grain of salt.

 

You're running XP? Otherwise you'd have DX10. Technical problems like this are really hard to find solutions to unless many people have the same problem. For instance I had a glitchy graphics card which was acting up. I posted here and I didn't get a single response from anyone who cared because no one else had the same issue

With that said I would suggest:

1. Installing Vista and seeing if DX10 causes the same problems
2. Rolling back to a less updated version of the graphics driver
3. Have you tried drivers from laptopvideo2go?

You're right, the problem seems to be with the DirectX and or your graphics card. If you're curious about my glitchy graphics card, I made a post about it a month ago which you can probably find easily. I ended up returning it and they waived the restocking fee. I spent 4 days trying to diagnose it and I finally found that it was the graphics driver that was causing it. The problem is that even though it was the driver, I suspect that the card itself was faulty because I was doing clean installs and ONLY installing the graphics driver. This was an Intel X3100 however. If you keep trying different things and nothing works, I would highly suggest either sending it in for repair or taking it back.

It's very hard to tell because we know so little about your OS, configuration and what you're running. It's sort of a crapshoot for anyone but you to try to help you out of the internet with problems that aren't widely experienced.

 

where did you dl the drivers from?

did u try laptopvideo2go like xnviews suggested?

 

FWIW, I have ran both 3DMark06 and PCMark05 successfully with DX9c and DX10 installed on my T61 with Vista Home Premium (both out-of-box and clean install) and NVS 140M graphics card. Haven't faced any BSOD issues at all. Try the latest DX10, maybe it would help.

 

Cool hand luke I have a laptop arriving tomorrow with vista home premium and a 140M graphics card. Have you noticed and screen flicker issues, I heard something about this being cause from the 140M. Noticed any screen flickers?

 

I've had this machine for 7 weeks now and no problems yet with the LG WXGA+ screen. It is plenty bright and shows vibrant colors. It isn't perfect though -- the vertical viewing angles aren't good but then again I knew about it (from reviews) before I actually ordered the machine. Hope the SXGA+ screen turns out fine for you.

 

Well I have run all 3DMarks 01-06 and PCMark, but the problem seems random. I am not moving to Vista. The problem is relatively isolated ( atleast so far ), while it is random I know what programs and conditions it can happen under.

AFAIK there is only 1 official driver for the 140M, it crossed my mind to try putting the 8400M drivers on it, but in terms of performance it does great. 3DMark06 scores around 1700, and the few games I have tested run smoothly. What is annoying is to get the Blue Screen of Death, I haven't seen that screen since Windows 95. I will probably wait a little and see if anyone has had this. If noone else has it could just be a problem with my laptop. I really don't want to call Lenovo, I spent the better part of a week on the phone with them just to order the stupid thing.

Also it hasn't crashed in the past 3-4 hours, I did a restore to pre 3DMark installation and ran the DirectX installer from MS. It didn't install anything except some SDKs, which I wonder why it did ( never installed those by default on my other machines ). But when you do this, then 3DMark does not attempt to 'upgrade' DX so this could resolve it. WHat is stange is that doing 3DMark -> upgrade DX -> Official DX installer from MS did not resolve it. YOu would think running the latest release installer from MS would overwrite whatever was causing the problem.

Anyway I have a demo of Titan Quest waiting for me whenever I complete my Google Summer of Code project, then I will have a week or 2 to play with it before College starts up again. Hopefully it has been fixed since I intend to game heavy for the 1 week I have free.