Problems with NP9262.

First off, here is my exact setup.

4 GB of RAM
Q9550
SLI 9800M GT's on Nvidias 179.28
RealTek HD Audio

This problem has been occurring more and more frequently over the past month, that is any game I try to play has been stuttering or freezing outright, usually with a sound looping error forcing me to hard reset, or sometimes just straight to various bsods. It happens if I max my fans and give the laptop room to breath, and it happens if I close all background processes, it generally seems to happen no matter what.

I've tried almost 6 different graphic driver combinations, and I'm not sure if it's just overheating or what, so I was wondering if maybe the cards need to be underclocked a little..

I'm just about at my wits end, I tried playing mirrors edge just last night and the game runs perfectly! But without fail after probably five-ten minutes it freezes and the sound just loops within the last second or so and I have to hard reset it.

I think it may be overheating, because when I do that and immediately reset windows, it freezes on the XP loading bar and I have to wait a few minutes before it will load normally. How can I be sure overheating is the culprit?

I feel the RAM may also be an issue, but I'm not exactly sure how I should test it..

This happens less I believe when I turn AA off inside games, but I can't be positive.
The games this has happened on: Left 4 Dead, Dead Space, Mirrors Edge, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Crysis, and a whole lot more, but you get the idea..

Attached is a recent list of minidumps, if anyone can read them.

 

What temps do your lappy reach? Download HWmonitor and find out.

 

What error codes have you been getting with the BSODs, and are there any relevant entries in your event logs?

 

HWmonitor won't log to disk, so if it freezes, he won't be able to tell. Either run a game in windowed mode with HWMonitor running, or find an info tool which logs temps to disk - any suggestions anyone?

 

He can just alt-tab after a few minutes. If it freezes after five-ten minutes, it should be pretty warm after two-three minutes too if overheating is the problem.

 

Use "nvTray". It will display GPU temps as well as FPS while running the game.

 

HWmonitor will show a maximum GPU temperature so you can run it while playing the game and when finished you can simply view the maximum temperature to get the worst case GPU temperature that occurred during the game play.

 

not if the computer crashes you can't, that's what I was saying

 

do some diagnostics:
- Memory (RAM): do a MemTest86+ and see if any errors come up
- Hard Drive (HDD): do a CHKDSK C: /R (within Command Prompt or Recovery Console in Windows setup disc)
- Heat.... toggle all fans to max speed during your tests (Fn+1)

 

If it's just to test whether it's overheating or not then download 3DMark06 and set it to run at the native resolution of your screen. Run Real Temp and GPU-Z on your desktop and then loop 3DMark. Each test only lasts a minute or so and you can use both programs to log temps and record the max temp. When 3DMark goes back to the desktop inbetween tests you can see the temps and with the resolution set to 1920 it'll stress the GPUs to max and the CPU to more than game stress.

 

considering you do all the hardware tests and although it sounds hardware, just to be sure use drivesweeper,
uninstall drivers,
reboot into safemode, run drivesweeper,
reboot and install new latest whql nvidia drivers

you should run some cpu and gpu stress tests to see if it hangs on the cpu or gpu tests, it might be overheating on a certain board, bad cooling gel etc, fan loose, u never know.