Gateway P7805U FX goes "black" while gaming

[rbsmith]

My P7805 works just fine when I am not gaming. But, when gaming, e.g. Oblivion, Skyrim, Trine2, etc, the computer will play for a few minutes; and then, it will just quit and go "black screen" with no video nor audio. It also gives a noise like a 60 Hertz buzz. I have to restart the computer to get it to work again, only to have the black screen happen again.

Any suggestions? The computer worked just fine for two years. . .then this. I'm thinking that this effect only occurs when there is a very large load on the video card. Could that be the problem area? Help!

[TANWare]

It does this under all gaming?

Edit; if so then it could be a variety of issues from heat to drivers to the power supply to the CAP's on the main board have just had it............

[andros_forever]

Have you ever taken time to take apart your laptop, clean it and reapply the thermal paste on GPU/CPU? Monitor your temps and see if that's the problem, you can use GPUZ for easy monitoring and save the results to a txt file.

[Eniem]

I have same problem too. If I'm playing GPU intensive game (Battlefield Bad Company 2, Skyrim, MW2) after a few minutes, depending on the settings of the game, it goes black with a sound lag. Any ideas?

[TheLoneWanderer]

Same problem, no solution found thus far. I recommend you sell it. Or buy a cheap shotgun and use it for target practice.

[Eniem]

So many guys here have same problems and no solutions and ideas?

[Tudormaestro]

Gateway has had this problem with a lot of their p-78 models. I have a p-7811 fx and the situation your describing happened with me a year or more ago.

Fix: My adventure with Gateway: Gateway p7811-fx hang-ups fix using Rivatuner

The above fixed my computer for a while until it completely died and the only way I can play now is by forcing my 3D to Low in rivatuner using the above method and just choosing that option instead.

All in all.. unfortunately.. I eventually had to buy a new Motherboard/GPU stock replacement to fix the problem.

Hope this helps..

[andros_forever]

If the above doesn't work here's a guide I wrote a while back that fixed all my black screen errors: Definite solution to the nvlddmkm video crash on the P-7805u!

...the problem lies in some awkwardly coded clock settings that are written on the Vbios.

Following my guide will fix that if you have a 9800m gts 1gb.

[Eniem]

Originally Posted by Tudormaestro

Gateway has had this problem with a lot of their p-78 models. I have a p-7811 fx and the situation your describing happened with me a year or more ago.

Fix: My adventure with Gateway: Gateway p7811-fx hang-ups fix using Rivatuner

The above fixed my computer for a while until it completely died and the only way I can play now is by forcing my 3D to Low in rivatuner using the above method and just choosing that option instead.

All in all.. unfortunately.. I eventually had to buy a new Motherboard/GPU stock replacement to fix the problem.

Hope this helps..

eghhh...i used this method, but in my opinion it simply lowers clocks, so that GPU doesn't overheat or black screening. These method works perfect for web-surfing-only users, but not gamers. By lowering clocks, fps in game dramatically falls.
Thanks for help anyway. If there is any ideas? Maybe GPU flash will solve this problem?

[Eniem]

Originally Posted by andros_forever

If the above doesn't work here's a guide I wrote a while back that fixed all my black screen errors: Definite solution to the nvlddmkm video crash on the P-7805u!

...the problem lies in some awkwardly coded clock settings that are written on the Vbios.

Following my guide will fix that if you have a 9800m gts 1gb.

I can't flash bios by your method. I'm getting EEPROM ID unknown error. I've searched a lot, but found nothing about this error. It really makes me sad.