NP8130 Video Card Stopped Responding Error

I have had my NP8130 for about a week now and everything has been smooth as butter.

This afternoon I was playing Star Trek Online but I had to go out and spray for ants so I exited out of the game, closed the lid on the laptop and set it down (it was sitting on my Logitech N700 lappad). When I came back in everything seemed to be fine for a minute or so. Then the computer just rebooted out of the blue.

I checked the logs and it said it rebooted because of a Bugcheck:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000116 (0xfffffa800b3064e0, 0xfffff8800f3810f8, 0x0000000000000000, 0x000000000000000d). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: .

Looked up the 0X0000116 and it seemed to be a nVidia error. I rebooted into safe mode to get the above error code. I then turned off auto-reboot in Windows so I could see the BSOD if it happened again.

I then rebooted into Windows normally. It was very unstable and the screen constantly flickered and flashed. Several times when the screen came up it said the nVidia driver had stopped responding and had been restarted.

I then shut the computer down completely. Pulled out the battery and unplugged it from the wall and pressed the power button to discharge any capacitors. Put the battery back in and plugged it back in and here I am back in Windows as if nothing had happened.

Now, on my desktop I have a GPU monitor program GPUMeter from addgadget.com and right now it is saying my GPU is about 40C but the weird thing is it says my fan is at 0 RPM and 0% usage. I don't remember if it every showed me the RPM or fan usage so I don't know if it stopped working or never worked.

I stuck my ears next to both fan exhausts and they both seem to be running so I am assuming the program is not reporting it accurately.

Anybody know anything about this error?

Also I thought I read somewhere that the nVidia GPU's in these systems cannot use the default nVidia drivers from nVidia but I have to use some altered ones? Is that correct?

Right now I am running 265.77 and I know there is a newer driver available.

Thanks,
Stoney

 

Hello

I had a funny similar problem with my np8130.

The only game i played for like 2 weeks was heroes of newerth with no

problems whatsoever.

Then when i installed crysis 2 the 8130 was unable to run it and when i

closed the game, i got a notification saying that the envidia card had

stopped working. After that my laptop would reset in the first seconds after

logging into windows**my reaction was like w t f **

This is how i fixed it

1- Started in safe mode

2- I rolled back the video display drivers ( my video card was recognized as a

vga video card

3- Restarted and logged into normal windows

4-Went into device manager and updated my video drivers

5- Now that my card was recognized as the 460m i downloaded the newest

envidia drivers from the SAGER WEBSITE (very important - the ones from the

envidia website wont work )

6- Installed them and all my problems were gone

7- Played crysis 2 at the maximum settings (I was impressed by the visuals) but in my opinion the campaign sucks specially at the end.

Hope this helps

 

Weird. Funny thing was I just downloaded Crysis via Steam and was in the process of downloading Crysis Warhead when this all happened. Hadn't had time to run either of them though.

The only game I been playing since I got it was Star Trek Online and Gods & Heroes beta.

Just got done playing Star Trek Online for an hour or so without any issues after this occurred.

 

PC worked fine all night long last night playing Star Trek Online. No issues again. Don't know what happened and why it happened.

 

download Who Crashed and next time you get a bsod run this as it gives a much clearer dump report.

best place to get nvidia drivers is > NVIDIA Driver Downloads - Advanced Search
make sure you have it set on notebook 400M series and search. there are new official drivers released yesterday.

 

I didn't think the nVidia drivers from nVidia worked on these laptops though?

 

Just ran WhoCrashed, didn't give me any more specific information other then it was a 3rd party video issue.

 

the whql are the official drivers for any laptop with a nvidia card in it. some people have the odd issue here and there and then you just change driver.

it depends how you install them. the best way is to run safe mode and use driver cleaner.

if you want a walk through just holler

 

Normally what you are suggesting is fine, but with the Sagers I would recommend sticking with the latest drivers posted on their website as they are tested(and I believe tweaked) for stability. We have seen issues with the "latest" Nvidia drivers not playing nice in the past.

That being said, you can always install the latest drivers from Nvidia for testing and roll them back to the Sager recommended version of the drivers if need be.

In your case however stoneysilence, I would not bother making any changes unless it becomes a regular occurance.

 

It crashed once more like it did before but while playing Star Trek Online this time.

 

Goto NVIDIA & Laptop News | Latest NVIDIA drivers and related news | laptopvideo2go.com and try their latest Nvidia drivers. They work for me in everything and are faster than the stock Sager/Clevo ones which are a bit old.

 

I'm having the same issue. Seems to be random in my case (several days and no problem, and then all of a sudden it happens) and not only during gaming.

I've tried to update the VGA driver. Now running 275.33 directly from nvidia, seems a little bit more stable (time between this to happen has increased), but still no permanent fix.

I'll try cleaning drivers and installing those from Sager (maybe nvidia if no luck).

Have you guys really had this solved? How?

Thanks in advance

 

I'm having the same issue as well. I think it might actually be the chip. I'm not running anything when these crashes happen. They sometimes happen overnight when the computer is on idling. Once a crash happens there's no recovery because the video is still wacked out and the driver will continue to crash even though windows 7 says it has recovered. I'm half tempted to contact xoticpc and see if they'll give me a replacement or let me upgrade the video card to a 580.

-B