Am i in the right forum? ;; Redirect or move this or something if not. When i play games or do other things that use the GPU, there's a good chance of the drivers crashing, either leaving the screen black or popping a BSOD(for which i'm not given enough time to fully read, something about not being able to restore display driver i think?). This started after i updated my Nvidia drivers to the latest version, and i haven't found a functioning driver ever since, so i'm starting to wonder if the problem is in the hardware.. But it doesn't make sense since it started from a driver update, unless it was a coincidence. On normal use the laptop works fine without any problems. Could it be that the BIOS can't support a new feature and causes a crash? Should i flash my BIOS? I would appreciate any help or ideas or anything that could help me go forward with this problem because i'm out of ideas. I don't exactly trust any computer stores, so taking the laptop into one should be the last thing to consider... Even if there is a better website to ask for help, i would like to hear. NotebookReview wasn't any help though. CPU: i7-820QM GPU: 285m GTX OS: Win7 Ultimate 64bit
1.) If there is a new BIOS file for you laptop, you should use it, regardless of all this. 2.) Fully uninstall the drivers and the driver utility suite. Then install an older release to see if the problems remain. 3.) Make sure you have the latest chipset drivers; the video drivers work off of these. 4.) Make sure windows is up to date and has the latest version of DirectX.
I can't find phoenix bios updates, although the version i have now is newer than i remember ever updating to.(i never updated yet the version is some months newer than the laptop) Can't find any intel drivers that actually start up. My motherboard chipset is labeled "intel DMI host bridge rev.11" in CPU-Z, and i don't know how to go around finding anything for that. I think i finally remember why i gave up with this problem before. I guess the only thing i can try now is to find some ancient nvidia drivers and hope they work. And the reason i didn't want to do that is because the driver update practically doubled or tripled my gaming framerates. Edit aaand nvidia doesn't have old drivers in their site. I think i'll just throw my laptop at some tech guy.
