G51j Blue screen of death problems

[sgtarky]

"OEMs have to give the updates lolololol"

Seen that one a lot. However, ATI is notorious for dropping any kind of service after a year or two that your card has been released, also Catalyst sucks.

really, after nvidia having nearly 3years of heat issues they still do not get it right. the only reason I didnt totally disreguard this laptop because of the nvidia card, was because it is replaceable and I am sure before it is a year old it will have to be replaced.

[Sefam]

I will try poking ASUS' notebook support again tomorrow.

[Abula]

really, after nvidia having nearly 3years of heat issues they still do not get it right. the only reason I didnt totally disreguard this laptop because of the nvidia card, was because it is replaceable and I am sure before it is a year old it will have to be replaced.

I don't think Nvidia is to be blamed about the heat but the laptop manufacturers, there are laptops that run extremely low in temps with the same cards (sager and alienware). People always want something faster, and imo they have supplied really good gpu, specially lately for laptops, although i do hate the renaming, these gpus are miles ahead for what was available in the laptop world 5 years ago.

[jovangrbic]

I'm a relative newcomer to mobile chipsets and laptops in general but i was thinking: the g51j a1 and the alienware m15x have basically the same components(CPU,GPU,Chipset...).The only difference seems to be the the software and the BIOS. (m15x doesnt have any BSOD issues). Would it be possible to flash/install the m15x's BIOS on the g51 and test it? (is this even possible?) . This would clear the BIOS as a possible cause of the BSODs...

[l3g4cy99]

im pretty sure its not possible. The BIOS's are specific to the motherboards that is in the system, unless AW uses ASUS MOBO's, then probably not.

[rdy2go]

About 16 hours of intensive gaming and no single BSOD.

AA x 8 always on, Anisotropic filtering x 16 etc.

It looks BSOD 124 issue is fixed for me.

[Wolfpup]

really, after nvidia having nearly 3years of heat issues they still do not get it right. the only reason I didnt totally disreguard this laptop because of the nvidia card, was because it is replaceable and I am sure before it is a year old it will have to be replaced.

What "heat issues"? Nvidia got hit with a manufacturing problem back on their 65nm chips if I'm remembering right (similar issue that the Xbox 360's GPU's been plagued by, and unforeseeable). They fixed that though with their next process, and I've heard zero reports of any issues with new GPUs. And it wasn't a heat issue. I mean of course any big piece of hardware is going to get hot, it's up to the notebook maker to make sure it's ventilated well enough. That's exactly the same whether we're talking about hardware from Nvidia, Intel, or AMD.

About 16 hours of intensive gaming and no single BSOD.

AA x 8 always on, Anisotropic filtering x 16 etc.

It looks BSOD 124 issue is fixed for me.

What did you do that might have fixed it?

At any rate, regarding the GTS 360, again, 16 fewer cores, but almost certainly faster core speeds. Half the memory bandwidth, but faster RAM...end result shouldn't be that much different, and I'm all for a die shrink.

And the person saying the GTX 260 is marginal...for what? I mean I'm sure you can't max out every single thing in every single game, but a 32 core Nvidia GPU will run todays games perfectly well.

[RoachBurn]

BIOS: 204
Nvidia Driver:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 4105

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 124
BCP1: 0000000000000004
BCP2: FFFFFA80041698D8
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 768_1

Well gentleman, I finally got my first BSOD 124 error. I have played Dawn of War 2 for 12 hours straight with no BSOD, World of Warcraft for roughly 7hrs per day for 1 week straight with no BSOD. I finished Bioshock in 1 play through with no BSOD. I played Team Fortress 2 for 6hrs straight with no BSOD.

I played Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer for 3.5hrs with no BSOD and then I kept the gaming running through the entire night. After 6 hours of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer running there was no BSOD, when I woke up the next morning there was a nice BSOD Recovery message on my desktop. Sometime during the night, CoD 4 MP gave me my first BSOD. I'm going to post the dump file below.

This first BSOD is enough for me to reformat to XP right away. I'm not going to wait for another one. I bought this lappy for $1650 CAD after shipping to play games, same as everyone else. I can't play my favourite shooter confidently so I'm really upset. I wish I could return it even with a restocking fee but I'm past the return date unfortunately.

I also realize I've been running on the pre-installed 204 BIOS but obviously 205 hasn't fixed a single issue with anyone so I see no sense in trying it now. XP here I come! I hope it works...

[PookiePrancer]

Forgive my ignorance, but I've read several instances of people leaving games running all night...just wondering, why?

[sama98b]

BIOS: 204
Nvidia Driver:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 4105

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 124
BCP1: 0000000000000004
BCP2: FFFFFA80041698D8
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 768_1

Well gentleman, I finally got my first BSOD 124 error. I have played Dawn of War 2 for 12 hours straight with no BSOD, World of Warcraft for roughly 7hrs per day for 1 week straight with no BSOD. I finished Bioshock in 1 play through with no BSOD. I played Team Fortress 2 for 6hrs straight with no BSOD.

I played Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer for 3.5hrs with no BSOD and then I kept the gaming running through the entire night. After 6 hours of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer running there was no BSOD, when I woke up the next morning there was a nice BSOD Recovery message on my desktop. Sometime during the night, CoD 4 MP gave me my first BSOD. I'm going to post the dump file below.

This first BSOD is enough for me to reformat to XP right away. I'm not going to wait for another one. I bought this lappy for $1650 CAD after shipping to play games, same as everyone else. I can't play my favourite shooter confidently so I'm really upset. I wish I could return it even with a restocking fee but I'm past the return date unfortunately.

I also realize I've been running on the pre-installed 204 BIOS but obviously 205 hasn't fixed a single issue with anyone so I see no sense in trying it now. XP here I come! I hope it works...

Had 50+ bsod on my desktop til got the memory timings right at the edge no big deal.
Os itself can bsod no need for anything in it just a bit memory corruption :P
Getting inet dc in mmo raid a bit more bugging :P
Hit you finger with a hammer .. not going to cut it down so it won't happen again :P
Windows comes with bsod/black screen of death built in lol
Gameguard+comodo = insta bsod with max security settings :P and can list a few more incompatibility for insta freez

You going to have a lot more problems with the pc-s then a reset in a few days. Like when the hdd-s just die without a warning losing all your data :P

Forgive my ignorance, but I've read several instances of people leaving games running all night...just wondering, why?

online game playing itself .. boting :P