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    Y580 Black stuttering screen when playing video games

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Chooobaka, Aug 25, 2012.

  1. Chooobaka

    Chooobaka Newbie

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    So I got my Y580 this past Monday, and initially I only had problems when running Diablo 3. After booting up the program, within 10 seconds the screen would turn black momentarily, then within another 3 seconds it would turn black again, but the third time it would stay black for about 15-20 seconds. When Diablo showed up again, the cycle would repeat. I occasionally had some luck running Diablo without hiccups, but I couldn't find a way to reliably get past the black screen issue.

    This all happened with the stock Nvidia drivers, so I tried installing both beta drivers 304.48 and 304.79 to no avail.

    Now today, this issue has started to happen with several other games (CS:GO and Starcraft 2). Throughout all of this, Dota 2, however, has run with 0 issues.

    I have looked around this forum and google in general but I haven't come across another person who had this black screen issue only when running games (i.e. when using the GTX 660M I guess). Does anyone have a guess as to whether this is a driver/software issue or some hardware issue with the GTX 660M?

    Thanks in advance
     
    Chooobaka, Aug 25, 2012
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  2. Syed117

    Syed117 Notebook Consultant

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    Seems like a hardware issue. Send it back
     
    Syed117, Aug 25, 2012
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  3. shak541

    shak541 Notebook Consultant

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    yea man.. mine blacks out and just freezes up alot .. hopeuflly getting my replacement tomorrow :) if not.. when im back from vacation.. its wierd.. cause the problem is slowing fixing itself.. before my GPU only went up to 72 degrees at the most... now it goes up till about 79 with no issues at all.. its really wierd.. but still want the replacement as i know its defective and still does it at times :(
     
    shak541, Aug 27, 2012
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  4. resolehtmai

    resolehtmai Notebook Enthusiast

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    shak541 and chooobaka,
    are your problems resolved? if yes, plz share some details
     
    resolehtmai, Nov 6, 2012
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  5. shak541

    shak541 Notebook Consultant

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    mine was solved by getting a replacement. get the process started now. they let me keep the defective one until the replacement came in. took a month. so start soon. I noticed mine did partially fix itself over time. but the issue will still happen afterwards. My replacement works perfectly fine and i love it :) i say have it replaced :)
     
    shak541, Nov 10, 2012
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