G51j Blue screen of death problems

[Dragokld]

Hi im an owner o a G51j-A1 and recently while playing borderlands i have been getting BSOD randomly. Through further questioning on Pchelpforum somone suggested that this could be a bios issue. I searched on the asus forums and a few people reported having the same problems Anyone else on here having the same problem

[Forge]

Does this occur only during borderlands?

And I'm assuming, since it's a G51J, that you have Win7. Yes?

[Soviet Sunrise]

Dragokld. What did the error details say on the BSOD?

[Abula]

Bortherlands was just release, so is Win7, maybe its the video driver. Update video drivers and monitor your temps see how is the G51J handling the game.

[Dragokld]

Just updated my video driver still having problems

[Soviet Sunrise]

Updated your video driver to what version? Please provide specific details so I don't get mad.

[Ahmed_p800]

Did u over clock ur CPU?

It usually happens to me....

[thalanix]

eh, BIOS problem. good to know i'm not alone

specifically, the error log bugcheck will say 4 0x# 0 0, implying a PCI-E (and usually GPU) error, but it works perfect on stress and benchmarking runs. usually the 0x124 (uncorrectable hardware error) stops are the most accurate ones, but in this case (i _think_) it's actually trying to write to a BIOS-reserved address, and therefore gets the BSOD. no real problem with PCI.
windows XP ignores the write, so i would suggest switching for the time being until Asus releases a fix.

im by no means a debugging expert (but not too shabby with olly ), so i suggest someone on windows 7 posts their crash dump (256k mini, change in advanced system settings) and submit this thread to Asus support.

for anyone on windows 7, theres no workaround i know of.


edit: ***DRIVERS FOR XP**

for anyone using the guide below, note these 2 changes:
SATA: USE PCHM 6-PORT (BOTTOM OF THE LIST). THIS IS CALPELLA
LAN: http://download2.msi.com/files/downl..._lan_vx_mb.zip
SD/MMC drvers: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

2 most important components changed

[EIement]

http://forum.notebookreview.com/show...78#post5353978


^^

[Dragokld]

I updated to my Geforece Gtx260m to version 186.81. And i dont overclock