G51j Blue screen of death problems

[Wolfpup]

Can I just say how totally sad this all is? The G51j and Dell's M15x are the two notebooks that best fit me...and one isn't stable, and the other clocks it's GPU down whenever the CPU is at full load. Totally frustrating

hey guys, i didnt find answer to the bsod problem but i found answer to why the g51j screen doesnt look as good.

This is because the screen they put is uses TN technology which is cheaper, but there is a nother one called PVA technology, which is more expencive but has better colour and viewing angles.

Is there a way to order a diffrent screen online with PVA technology and replace the current one?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=930

I didn't see this addressed yet. Yes, the screen is TN-all or virtually all notebook screens are (as are an increasing number of monitors, unfortunately-including all 22" monitors to my knowledge). There's still a huge range of quality even within a particular type of display.

And no, you can't really replace notebook screens like that. There probably wouldn't be anything to replace it with anyway.

[thalanix]

got it back from asus, and they said there was no problem. HWmonitor and dmesg CLEARLY show 0c on THRM. prime95 gets the CPU up to 96c.

do i have to shoot the BBB an email (and how would i go about that)?

[GenTechPC]

Has anyone try test the game with just one stick of RAM at a time? it could be bad RAM.

[ASUS Customer Care]

Well mine came back from last RMA with a new video card and it has BSOD'd again since then in both wired and wireless ethernet connections, COD4 has even done it hosting with only me in the room.

I have also gotten multiple lock ups in fallout 3 that do not blue screen where I have to kill it in task manager ( I may try removing the creative drivers.).

ok people I tried it with a clean install retail version and only the standard drivers from the asus driver section. Played CoD:MW2 multiplayer for 1:30 minutes, sweet !
But 1 hour and 30 minutes after playing none stop I get a bsod !
thing is this wasn't the same bsod i was getting before! before it was [I'm playing "just got iced" bam cut to bsod], this one was [I'm running "GRRRRRRRRRRRRR" weird sound bsod "with sound"]. windows restarts no dump file no windows has recovered from an error ? what the?
I don't know what happened? I know I played for 1:30 minutes better than 30 minutes!
I think I'm going to try and pull the Realtek audio driver from windows update catalog and give that a try!

We are adding the creative drivers as possible source of conflict.

Has anyone try test the game with just one stick of RAM at a time? it could be bad RAM.

We have tried running units that have come back for this issue with multiple sets of RAM, and not able to replicate issue.

Unfortunately, in order for us to "replicate" issue, we would need to have a finite set of steps, our HQ have processed our reports on their end and are not able to duplicate the reports and findings submitted to them.

We have requested a few users to forward the logs to an internal Asus email account. Hopefully, the dump files would have information needed to resolve this long standing issue.

We would like to thank all users and contributors patiently waiting and trying solutions and work around.

[MichaelKW]

It seems pretty clear that Asus HQ hasn't actually done what causes the BSOD on their end with the returned units they've supposedly tested: run either Borderlands or CoD: MW2 in *MULTIPLAYER* mode for four hours. Having so many people report *the exact same issue* in this thread makes it uneqivical: do the above with one of their machines and you should get the issue. There's too many people its happend to to be non-repeatable.

[GenTechPC]

We have tried running units that have come back for this issue with multiple sets of RAM, and not able to replicate issue.

Unfortunately, in order for us to "replicate" issue, we would need to have a finite set of steps, our HQ have processed our reports on their end and are not able to duplicate the reports and findings submitted to them.

We have requested a few users to forward the logs to an internal Asus email account. Hopefully, the dump files would have information needed to resolve this long standing issue.

We would like to thank all users and contributors patiently waiting and trying solutions and work around.

C.T. told me a week ago they were able to duplicated the problem and already sent the unit to Taiwan HQ for evaluation.

Ryzeki has two G51J-A1 and he is trying to swap RAMs with different combination and it seem turn out to be the RAM, he is still testing it right now and will post his result soon.

[ryzeki]

C.T. told me a week ago they were able to duplicated the problem and already sent the unit to Taiwan HQ for evaluation.

Ryzeki has two G51J-A1 and he is trying to swap RAMs with different combination and it seem turn out to be the RAM, he is still testing it right now and will post his result soon.

I am currently still testing. My unit (A) does not BSOD right now, and I aquired a G51J that does have BSOD (B).

I swapped my RAM modules to B, and put B's modules on mine (A). I used my machine with B RAM and tested Borderlands, and got a BSOD quite fast. B unit worked for about 30mins with my memory modules.

Second test began with trying one module at a time, with only one RAM slot occupied testing each slot independently and each RAM module independently.

Currently, the BSOD unit (B) is stable with only one RAM module, using the lower slot. We will continue playing with the game on multiplayer and test how long it lasts. My unit, A, equipped with my original RAM is not BSODing anymore.

IT could be an issue not only of perhaps RAM, but the RAM slots. If I can test for several hours with 2GB of RAM on the lower slots succesfully, I will post again with the results.

[Predator_MF]

I didn't read all the pages, this may already be suggested... did anyone have BSOD with stability benchmark test like in Furmark. Try to find any demanding application that would make a BSOD requiring as less time as possible to crash. Debugging drivers with a game that requires couple of hours of multiplayer gameplay to 'BSOD the hardware is not a good idea, most of the demanding games usually don't run when they detect a debugger or even if they do, it would a pain in the to debug. In your best interest is to make the developers job as easy as possible

[Wolfpup]

How about Folding @ Home? Anyone Fold using the SMP and GPU clients? That usually turns up issues.

(EDIT: Of course try to return the work units so the science gets done!)

[ryzeki]

I hate to inform that after a long while of testing, just right now... we had a BSOD again!

It lasted quite a bit but it seems the issue persist. My machine still seems to be BSOD free though.

I wonder what is causing the problem??