How to Fix Your GSOD Blues

[Xelloss]

Chastity, Hellcry or anyone?

Does anyone know if you are currently running the MSI/Clevo VBIOS if you have to first revert back to factory vbios and factory ATI drivers, then flash to new vbios or can I go directly to new vbios without reverting anything. Just want to know if there are any gotchas when bouncing versions.

Thanks

I went from MSI to new vBios just fine.

[GibberishDriftwood]

kk, updated it and seems to work. Don't got time to do real testing.

I have a question tho, since bios 211 fans seems to make a little bit more noise. Tho I never seen them spin up or down, played WOW for a bit and they stay at 30% (HWInfo) with a max gpu temp of 70C.

Is it possible to turn them down a bit or revert back to bios 209 which seems to be a bit quieter... Or am I seeing ghosts... Maybe get some canned air and spray the vents clean

[IM0001]

Question for those of you mentioning the 1-2 second pause in games. Does it happen every time you play, every time you load and enter a level, or only once then things resume like normal (as long as game is not quit and restarted).

If I remember correctly, my desktop with a 4870X2 has a new little glitch sounding similar to this. Saw it most clearly in Dirt 2 once going from the 10.6 drivers I was on for ages to the 10.8's The game would run and play fine, but the first race I started, a short distant in the game would pause for 1 - 2 seconds, then resume like normal and have no issues whatsoever. I am wondering if anyone has tried 10.6 or older drivers (10.5 would be good) and see if that "pause" still exist. I believe it to be more of an ATI driver thing more than something to do with the new vBios.

(Don't have my G73 yet so can't test anything outside of my desktop) 1 more day.... Dang the wait.

Also I am a big fan atm of installing the 10.7 Beta driver first since it is an all inclusive driver (HDMI Audio, Avivo, etc), then installing the 10.8 driver over the top of it. (Installing newer drivers over older ones works fine. Going back to older drivers requires an uninstall + Driver Sweep.)

10.7 Beta

[Chet L.]

kk, updated it and seems to work. Don't got time to do real testing.

I have a question tho, since bios 211 fans seems to make a little bit more noise. Tho I never seen them spin up or down, played WOW for a bit and they stay at 30% (HWInfo) with a max gpu temp of 70C.

Is it possible to turn them down a bit or revert back to bios 209 which seems to be a bit quieter... Or am I seeing ghosts... Maybe get some canned air and spray the vents clean

Bios 211 starts spinning up the cooling fans at lower temps than bios 209, so there will be a little more noise. HWInfo does a bad job of reporting fan speed and only reports 30% or 100% even though I have heard my GPU fan ramp up as temps increase while running Furmark and since my repaste job I never get to 100%.

[GibberishDriftwood]

Bios 211 starts spinning up the cooling fans at lower temps than bios 209, so there will be a little more noise. HWInfo does a bad job of reporting fan speed and only reports 30% or 100% even though I have heard my GPU fan ramp up as temps increase while running Furmark and since my repaste job I never get to 100%.

Just noticed this myself, did a quick fubar and did hear the fan spin up, but HWInfo keep stating 30% ... Max temp was like 88C when fans spinned up good. BTW do you know a monitor which does do a good job at reading the fan speeds of the G73JH.

Question for those of you mentioning the 1-2 second pause in games. Does it happen every time you play, every time you load and enter a level, or only once then things resume like normal (as long as game is not quit and restarted).

I noticed these to in WOW after the Bios 211, vBios and CCC 10.8 update. It happens in the game at an irreguar interval. Just a very short freeze, like a small hickup, and then the game continues as normal. Same thing happens when I do a Fubar, only more often, based on feeling.

Haven't tried older driver yet, always been of the factory drivers and never seen this problem, will check it out later. Hope this is fixable else the vBios update did not help that much, lol....

[aramis109]

Pauses/freezing are either due to core parking or latency/lag in online games.

[HeavenCry]

Core parking disabled and latency doesnt cause the game to freeze up, just makes the characters stand still for a while, its completely different.
I believe its the new vBios - perhaps powerplay accidentally switching clocks to 2d for a second while i play. As i said this never happened on the stock vBios, just started happening on the beta and this new vBios both of which have powerplay. Ill keep GPU-z open next time and when i get another freeze ill alt-tab out and check the clocks graphs to see if its powerplay downclocking or not... If it is, the solution is simple - disable powerplay when gaming .

[IM0001]

Pauses/freezing are either due to core parking or latency/lag in online games.

Perhaps on said laptop if that is the issue, but the issue I describe happens on a Q9550 machine with a 4870X2. The slight pause I noticed once I move up to the 10.8 drivers. (After I messed with the 2nd core 2D clock issue and such so I know it wasn't due to the GPU clocks switching).

Now on this laptop it may be just drivers, or as HC mentions, the 2D clocks could be flicking on for a split second for whatever reason. With the Mobility cards, can you right click on the ATI icon in the taskbar and force 3D clocks through the 3D settings like I can on my X2? I wonder if that could help remove things from this small problem search. (Disabling power play may also do the exact same thing, again can't test hands on just yet)

Usually I always disable GPU power saving features when gaming for stability reasons but when its chilling at desktop, viewing videos, or web browsing it is left on.

[apachehavok]

Ok so it seems something happened with my topic.?????? My only question is this:

What does this actually do to units that DONT have the GSOD problems.

[IM0001]

Ok so it seems something happened with my topic.?????? My only question is this:

What does this actually do to units that DONT have the GSOD problems.

Potentially unlocks a bit more performance (and possibly heat). Besides that if you can already use any ATI driver outside of the ASUS ones, you won't see a huge change nor should it cause your system to GSOD if it does not already.