I clearly am the least lucky person alive.

My 3rd? 4th? what ever this is. Bluescreen (IRQ), a Nvidia driver stopped responding, and now a weird artifacty lockup. Yay!


I'm not sure guys.... I mean, spec and size wise this IS the laptop for me... but clearly after like 4 it isn't..... what do you guys think i should do? try again? or just say screw it and get something else?

 

what driver you using for vid? sony or laptop2go?

 

lv2go, i tried about 4 of them and still can replicate the lockup. The sony driver I was not able to, but i think this is because i have to run the games on lower settings with the sony driver, thus not stressing as much?

 

i had read somewhere that sony restricts 3rd party video drivers on its vaios(Though i've never tested it). May be that's what is causing the problem.

 

Try underclocking both memory and core by 50 Mhz. It solved my problems.

 

If I'm not mistaken, the FW is already downclocked anyway. And to the above poster, yes, they do restrict drivers, but it's not for any particular reason whatsoever. Aan310, do you know what your temps are right around BSOD, or are the BSOD's completely random?

 

Yup, it is. I'm not saying it's a heat issue, its just that those clocks seem to make certain games unstable.

 

heat maxes out at like 64c, the BSOD was right out of hibernation and was unrelated to gfx i think.
As for downclocking, why whould i downclock an already downclocked card?

If it BSOD or artifacts once more it's going back. For good.

 

Dude. You have horrible luck... dang. If it maxes out at 64, then yea, you clearly have other problems if it's artifacting. Thats 4?

 

by the way. have you gone to Microsoft forums and uploaded the minidump? they can tell you what has caused the error.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/default.aspx?tab=2#tab=1

 

Yep. 4.

Not happy.

 

Yep, this one has a bad GFX card. It's driver independent (among other things).


Now, do i want a HP Envy 15 or give Sony another shot? Hmmmmm

 

is that what you were able to find out?

 

and you just missed out on that $350 off HP Envy 15 coupon.

 

There is a $450 off one right now, in my cart at least. Did it expire 30 min ago?

 

they were reporting it dead earlier today. if it's still working, go for it. or call in. people think you might be able to talk them into giving you the deal.

If I wanted a 15", that computer would be mine. but for now, I'm focused on 17"+

 

i jsut cant find any reviews, im worried that card might be weaker than the 330m

 

well the 5830 is rated better than the 330m so that shouldn't be a problem and looking at the hp15 it shows it has 1gb.

thought from the pictures I can't tell what its made out of. i have a dm3 that has the plastic silver casing but its cheap and flaking

 

supposedly it's metal.
Spare the horror stories about the Envy 15, looks like i may be jumping ship. We'll ahve to see tomorrow.

 

I dont have any. I just read the ones they have online

 

metal hp envy= heat while gaming. The vaio e series seem pretty decent though.

 

Well, i got the Envy.

 

Funny, I'm returning the Envy 15 in favor of the Vaio Z Signature.

The 5830 is a great card...the Envy is a nice machine. It just hurt while typing a lot, and I realized that what I need as a grad student who travels a lot is supreme mobility. 3 lbs + 1080 = dream for me.

Your mileage may vary, of course. If the Z weren't around, I would most likely keep this one (though I really don't enjoy typing on this too much).

 

Yea, mine is quite well spec'd though at only $1300, where as a Z would be more and have a shoddier screen. Idk, we'll see.