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    AMD display driver keeps crashing NP8170

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by dante316, Nov 29, 2011.

  1. dante316

    dante316 Notebook Consultant

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    Keep having the screen go blank and getting this error msg:
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    Hmm... before I get lectured here. I am at stock clocks, yes I had oc'd a bit before but this is not temp related. System stats in sig.

    So here are the apps I have open:

    Visual Studio 2010 Express
    Chrome
    Firefox
    Photoshop CS4
    Dual screen setup, extending the desktop to a 47" monitor.

    This is where things get really strange. When I do Control + F in Visual Studio, it spawns a new search window. And that is what crashes the system. Screen freezes, goes blank, and then pops back with that error after about 10 sec. Also watching a vid in chrome and the it just goes green... then crashes too when this happens.

    Guess I could try new drivers... I had some crashing issues with my last AMD setup, but nothing reproducible like this.

    I really don't want to do this , but might need to change some of the window settings to performance maybe? i mean shut off transparency and stuff...

    anyone else run into a similar situation?

    EDIT:

    Hmm rebooted... only opening VS2010 and it still crashes the display driver when I do Control + F.
    How much more was that 580M? lol...
    I'll try the newest drivers thanks.

    EDIT2:

    yeah still fubar even with newest drivers. Display driver crashes whenever I do Control + F in VS2010. Doubt this will ever be resolved... not a lot of programmers using 6990Ms... but I'm a freaking game designer, need the good GPU. I'll change some other settings... hopefully that will work. Setting all the visual settings to performance and it still crashes...

    EDIT3:

    So quick fix, just docking the find window on the right so it is no longer a popup fixes the issue. Whatever, got it working now back to programming, wasted enough time already.
     
    dante316, Nov 29, 2011
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    johnnyman27 Notebook Lover

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    johnnyman27, Nov 29, 2011
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