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    GX 640 display driver problem

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by jhsnowboard, Jun 11, 2010.

  1. jhsnowboard

    jhsnowboard Notebook Consultant

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    I was at work with my laptop, and underclocked the gfx card with amd gpu clock. At the end of the day the computer was low battery life, and I put it to sleep.

    The computer ran out of power while it was asleep

    All was fine until today when i tried to turn it on.
    I tried to turn it on and everything loads up fine until windows is about to start. Then the display turns black and i can tell that the computer does not fully load because it cannot be put to sleep.

    I try loading the computer in safe mode and the display works, then i disable the display driver there and reboot in normal mode and it works fine.

    I have tried updating the drivers, and resetting the vid card clocks. Nothing works so far.

    I would assume the problem has to do with the gfx card underclocking and computer running out of battery life when asleep... but I dont know what to do now.

    Anyone have any ideas? thanks alot!
     
    jhsnowboard, Jun 11, 2010
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  2. min2209

    min2209 Notebook Deity

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    Uh.. well, with any driver other than 10.1 (stock) the notebook, if it shuts down while on battery, does not start up again. I don't know why either. I'm thinking they're still trying to fix that.
     
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    jhsnowboard Notebook Consultant

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    oh... crap lol.

    so you cant reinstall the driver? can you just install 10.1? do you have to reformat?

    anyways thanks for that info
     
    jhsnowboard, Jun 11, 2010
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    kosti Notebook Virtuoso

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    Isn't this a powerplay issue?
     
    kosti, Jun 11, 2010
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    jhsnowboard Notebook Consultant

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    well i'm aware of that problem, and i dont think this is the same thing.

    i thought the problem with powerplay was: put computer to sleep and it wont come back, instead it reboots.

    my problem is that i cant get into windows now, its a problem with video driver

    maybe im wrong tho, either way-- i cant get into ati catalys control panel lol
     
    jhsnowboard, Jun 12, 2010
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    I think it's yet another iteration of the PP issue. The default setting in PP while on battery is the 100/1000 clocks, and so the failure to boot may be similar.

    Safe mode might work, but otherwise your best hope is to do a System Restore.
     
    lackofcheese, Jun 12, 2010
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    well like i said, i can use safemode to get into windows. then in there i disable the 5850 display driver.

    then i can reboot normally into windows and it works... cept no display driver.

    if i re-enable it.. same problem D:
     
    jhsnowboard, Jun 12, 2010
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