Malibal Veda P180HM Blue screen (BSOD)

Hi, I received my new laptop yesterday and it has been nothing but problems due to drivers and possible hard disk or GPU failure (leaning more towards hard disk)

I can post the dump and evtx's if needed.

I believe it started around when I tried reinstalling the LED drivers because none of them work (volume, WLAN, etc buttons)

Second time was when I tried installing the free comcast Norton 360 I think

After that it's been primarily anytime I am installing or downloading something. Never has it crashed due to a game and games run fine for the most part aside from probably being able to find better grapihcs drivers IF I can ever find correct ones.

Thanks, I'll include more info as required

EDIT: I am thinking it is the HDD that is corrupt, I read elsewhere that a possible reason for games stuttering and frame skipping is due to a slow/defective HDD. Not sure if this is the answer... Still need help

Specs are as follows:
PRODUCT Veda P180HM
Promotions: $100 OFF Configurations Over $1500
Display: 18.4" 1920 x 1080 FHD LED Backlit Glossy
Display
Processor: Intel® CoreT i7-2670QM, 6MB L3 Cache, $50.00
2.2-3.1GHz
Memory: (8GB) 8192MB, PC3-10660/1333MHz DDR3 - 2
SO-DIMM
Graphics Card: 2 X AMD® Radeon HD 6990M 2GB GDDR5 $425.00
(CrossFireX)
Hard Drive: 500GB 7200rpm 2.5" SATA 300
Optical Drive Bay: 8X Multi DVD+/-R/RW RAM
Dual-Layer Drive
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home $80.00
Premium; 64-bit
Wireless: Intel® 6300 Ultimate-N 802.11A/B/G/N $35.00
LAN and Bluetooth Card
Cooling: Stock OEM Thermal Compound, CPU & GPU
Keyboard: English: US & Canada
Power Cord: US & Canada
Branding: Red Edition
AC Adapter: Full Range AC-in 100~240V, 50~60Hz, $100.00
300W AC Adapter, DC output 20V, 15A



Thanks again I'd love you forever if you can make my laptop what I had dreamed it would've been for spending so much damn money.......

 

Hi, I think you might have a ticket open on our site - we'll reply back to it shortly. Thanks.

 

Try running checkdisk or the free version of hd tune to rule out disk issues.

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I've run the check disk on startup a good 3-4 times now and it goes through every time fixing stuff and what not then crashes anywhere from 5 minutes to 2hrs later.

I also tried running SeaTools for windows and it blue screened at a certain part of the scan, leading me to believe it is infact a HDD error.

I am talking with Malibal now to resolve this issue but continued help from the community is more than welcome!!

 

youre most likely right about it being an HDD issue. I had similar symptoms I.E. intermittent BSODs, usually when doing installations or unzipping files. ran seatools, and it failed the short self-test. I swapped out the HDD for an SSD and its working fine now. Malibal should send you a new drive. I just have mine on hold because im on a trip right now

 

I suspected it was the HDD that was bad. I would probably also go with a SSD too but I would want at least 300-500gigs storage and I don't want to shell out more than 200 right now, and if I do have to pay more than that I want a guarantee this thing will NEVER blue screen again as long as i care for it and make sure temps stay low. As of right now I have a 2100 brick which I'm not too happy about haha. Oh well hope it gets resolved really soon..

 

Update:

I now cannot even log in to view my desktop at all. Blue screen immedietly after typing in password to login.

Shut down and windows installed 2 updates is the only thing I did prior to this starting to happen.

BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT EVER
...although I paid for 75% of it

 

The bluescreen is related to the graphics driver, we replied to your ticket.

 

i've done 8 million check disks, hard drive scans, etc. They all either end in bluescreen or in check disks case just attempt to fix errors then send me to login screen. Trying the one you sent me now, IF it will boot in safemode, thats being hopeful

 

Hey you better check those ATI drivers. I recently upgraded my M18X with single 6970M to dual 6990 Xfire setup. I thought I had bad cards due to all the BSOD. Finally found the latest release Dell driver and that solved the problem. A lot of the 11> series drivers are bogus for Xfire. I found that the drivers were causing the GPU memory to run at outrageous speeds. Not to mention the GPU core clock would register 0MHZ. THey were doing weird things to the GPUs for sure.

 

If I could find the right drivers that would be amazing. Currently running 11.6 catalyst, what are you on that solved the problem? And what games do you play most?

 

I found the Catalyst 10.9 setup for Rage worked. I will find a link. Make sure you uninstall, then boot into safe and run driver cleaner or driver sweeper. Remnants of old drivers can be disastrous. Games I play include Rage, Batman Arkham city, BF3, COD MW3, Duke Nukem, Crysis 2, and any other FPS I can get my mits on.

 

AMD Catalyst? - Rage Performance Driver

 

alright thanks!! I'll try those first before I try 11.6 again (which is what was recommended before)

 

I upgraded to Catalyst 12.1 Preview without any issue. Although not the final release, AMD recommends that gamers upgrade to this version.

 

I am using these drivers and they are working better.

Absolutely NO framerate drops playing Dead Island, which is great!

However, World of Warcraft runs at around 20-40 fps when it used to not drop below 100-120 on same graphics settings and only have frame rate spikes down.

Thoughts?

(I'm trying to recreate bluescreen by doing a SeaTools scan to see if my HDD is trash or not which was the first issue at hand also, but that's an easier to solve problem)

 

Edit: read post above this one thats mine first, that is the one that is aimed at the forums and not a single person haha

What were you running prior to 12.1 that even worked without BSOD?

PS: Sorry for double post, forum gods

 

Well got my first BSOD yesterday, after playing Medieval TW for straight 9-10 hours. Now I cant log into windows because system asking to chose boot device and press a key. I will post more on this issue as I will have more free time, as well as will contact Malibal for technical support. I feel it is HDD issue because in Bios I couldn't find my HDD as boot option. That is it so far. Lastly laptop worked fine for couple days (I do not count touch controls didn't worked and some provided drivers couldn't be installed) and I could play games and brows internet finely.

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Win 7 home premium, 2x hd 6990 in Xfire, 1x750 Gig HDD, 12 Gig RAM

 

I'd be happy to help if I can, having previously had a similar system setup with Malibal. I have returned that machine as the wireless card was shot and xfire support is just god awful.

I suggest testing a new hard drive, or even installing windows on same hard drive if you can get it to recognize it by reinstalling windows / the actual drive.

 

After all I did make it work and really it looks like it was graffic card issue. I will try new Catalist CC in hope it will give better stability. Laptop is working now, though BSOD is only one issue I have - but that is another story.

 

Yeah, even though there may be a few issues with crossfire it's more than worth it to stay with crossfire as it matures.

 

which drivers are you using that are working well?

 

I'm using preinstalled drivers (8.861.0.0) and Catalist (version 2011.0524.2352.41027) - works good at least for DoW, MTW and everything else. Will keep it for now, since I dont have too much time and desire for experiments.