Serious problems with Clevo X8100

Hey guys, Ive been reading on here for a while now, and cant seem to find an answer to my problem, so I decided to post it.

Specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate(x64)
2x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M
Intel Core i7 Q 820 @ 1.73GHz
4 Gigs of DDR3 Ram

Problem: When I play a game, after about 30-40 minutes, I get a flickering black screen, the game crashes, and I get a message saying "Display adapter has stopped responding and has recovered." After this happens once, I cannot load any game or video online at all, or the same thing happens. Also, the same error happens when I have 2 or more videos open on any website.

My GPU temps seem fine. Im using Rivatuner to check. Under full load(skyrim), the highest Ive seen my GPU temps go is 80C, so I dont think its an overheating issue.

It seems like my graphics cards are conflicting with something, causing them to crash.


Something else I noticed and was wondering if it was a problem...My GPU1 never goes above 47C, whereas my GPU0 will spike while gaming like its under a full load. I dont know if thats normal or not, but it seems like the two cards should share the load equally.

Please someone help, it makes gaming almost unbearable when I have to do a hard reset every hour.

 

Have you checked your settings to be sure you are in SLi mode?

Have you uninstalled, then reinstalled your drivers, and then checked to make sure you are in SLi mode?

Is this something that just started, or have you had this issue since new?

Have you contacted your vendors tech support?

 

Ive been messing with my NVIDIA control panel settings for the past couple hours, and here is what I found.

I was not running my GPUs in SLI mode, but the moment I did, I started to recieve horrible flickering when I boot any fullscreen game. Im running a large 32" HDTV as my monitor via HDMI, so I tried pulling the HDMI cable and starting a game with SLI mode on, and everything worked fine, I didnt get far enough to test for the crash, but I was crashing before I got this TV. Now the problem seems to be getting SLI to work on this TV lol.

I just did a clean install of the latest drivers about 3 weeks ago for Skyrim and BF3.

 

You don't notice any issues when gaming on the on-board screen though? It may be a problem with either your output or your TV then. Have you tried using a different HDMI cable?

 

yeah I tried using my spare HDMI cable, and it changed nothing. Im probably just going to buy a monitor.

 

When using an external monitor with your laptop screen you have to disable SLi...that is your problem with the TV, and why it works fine on your laptop screen alone.

 

I have the same problem in game with my X8100 and the last Nvidia driver. I don't use external tv, i think is the driver but in the clevo site the last driver is 190, why? If i use this driver i don't have this problem but is too old!!!

 

Well, Im done worrying about monitors and such, but now I have an even more troubling problem...

I have been getting really hard lockups on windows at random times, i.e Playing games, talking on TS, watching youtube videos, reading yahoo news, or any combination or anything you can think of. It does this at random, and I cant point out a consistant thing that could be the catalyst. I benchmarked both my graphics cards and my CPU, and everything is running flawlessly. My event viewer is plagued with Errors and warnings and stuff like that. I have no logs in my minidump folder, which I fixed so that next time this happens I should have a log to upload.

Im at a complete loss, someone please help.

 

Try to install the original Nvidia Driver from Clevo site. It's very old but the best for stability; for performance....i don't no.

If i install other drivers have the same your problems.

 

Looks like a problem similar with mine here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/617592-driver-problem-460m-sli.html

Read throught the topic, and chekc out what ppl said to me.

I think the only way to get rid of it is to never use nvidia again.

I think either im gettin amd radeon 7xxx crosfire instead of 460m sli and keeping the x7200 or selling it and get an m18x instead.

 

Zaknafien,

What driver version are you currently using? If you don't mind looking it up for us.

BTW, I like your name! It's been years since I read those though.