Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered. - Page 2

to frozenlead:
When i got this laptop 2 weeks ago,the first thing i did was that i reinstalled VISTA again.

to jaydee:
I have installed Desktop Drivers too from laptopvideo2go.
You have to download the driver and then download a MODED INI from the site and replace it with the original one.
I have used the 2 Dells stock drivers, Nvidia Desktop driver and finally the new NVIDIA driver for notebooks.

Guys i found what is the problem
I was playing COD4 and suddenly the color of almots everything,for example the doors went black,grass went yellow....

Its MY GPU,I HAVE A FAULTY GPU!!!!

I hope you can mail it to your uncle, and he can do the rest. RMA long distance. I hope this isnt some of the bad soldering on nVidias mobile gpus. Sorry to hear it

Dell uses a proprietary socket, if you can pick a card up from Ebay or something.

Ebay is not availabe in IRAN.

Also can u explaing more jaydee? i didnt get u ? u say i must put it in a cool place?

Well here we are in summer and its hot here but as i said my temps arent bad because many other users have this temps too,they are normal.

I used to make small boxes that can go under notebooks with dry ice compartments in them to cool down intakes. If you have access to dry ice, you can try that. Make sure you insulate the ice well, though, and don't give direct contact from air-ice...you don't need air THAT cold going into a notebook. Condensation is bad.

Just a thought.

Other than that, you can always prop the notebook up like he said. Sometimes raising the notebook up and using cardboard to extend the back down can improve temps, as it prevents convection currents from flowing exhaust air into the intakes again.

Have you thought about removing one GPU and disabling SLI?

And the worst thing happened.
I wanted to play COD4 multiplayer and when the map loaded the screen went black and instead of coming back to the game,it said"DirectX has encountered an error" and the game closed. just like with all other drivers.

Sounds like 1 card is bad, and going to multiplayer/single card mode fixes it

Well, If you find the problem GPU, you can remove it and use the laptop with just one (trust me, one isn't bad at all), until you can pick up an extra one off the web somewhere, possibly dell could give you one...

I don't know who would buy the notebook off you.

I'm sorry Maz. This just sucks. I feel really bad.

Guess what
Today i launched the game and wanted to play COD4 in a server(i didnt use XFIRE,i closed it)and it again gave me the DX error.
So u see i am not sure if its only one of the cards.

Maziar, you are slowly burning your GPUs.
Either change the GFX cards or send that laptop to repair.
99% of probability that the you have a couple of faulty GPUs.

I had similar problem with my new HD4870 - it would crash every few seconds saying that the driver crashed and has recovered. The card performed well although, it never struggled but it was crashing a lot. However the weird thing was that I could play COD4 without crashing. All other games would crash but COD4. After few days trying almost everything and anything I choose to RMA and they have replaced the old card with a new one. Maybe that's the way to go.

Have you tried to install different OS? I've tried mine with Vista 64 and Xp 32 and it behaved same way...

I have checked, XPS M1730 is officially sold in Turkey, so you can send there for RMA. As far as I know, there's no customs stuff between Iran and Turkey. Probably it's the fastest and cheapest way you can do.

Send via some Cargo company. Not through postal services. I know it's more expensive but hey, it isn't as expensive as the notebook itself.

Well, you could go on a road trip...

We have cargo companies but not for doing this stuff,for sending something we only have Postal Services.

I see thanks
Well i have E-mailed DELL and i am waiting for their response,i have to see what will they say.

lower the speed of what?

Downclock the GPU to work fine ? i didnt buy this to downclock its GPU.well if i dont receive an answer from DELL,i will send it to my uncle with DHL POST i think.

I am waiting for their response for my E-mail,if they dont respond then i may send it.

i can confirm my card was way to hot for a long time cause of the wrong powersuply they putted in.. now i have the same problem on my 8800 gts
but it aint hot anymore but in every game i play driver stopped working and recovered.. i have 3 weeks left in insurance time ill better be fast
so i can confirm it is a broken card also i used driver cleaner and tried serveral different drivers... but i have a dual boot system never used the vista boot anymore but i tried now.. it always worked with gaming but now i got the same message driver stopped working while i never changed anything

regards
barry