Hello,
I've been banging my head against the wall for weeks trying to fix this. In the past month I've been getting black screen crashes, only while playing games. The games are WoW and SWToR. I've played WoW for almost three years on this laptop with no problems. There is no consistancy as to when this happens. I might play for 4 hours and it never happens, then 20 min into another session it happens. The screen goes black and the audio gets stuck in buzzing loop. I cannot do anything at that point, just have to hard restart. I've updated graphics driver, then rolled it back. Nothing. Temps are fine with nothing getting over 60C. I cleaned the heck outta the thing with a vacuum and canned air. Ran memtest86 with 3 passes. I did the benchmark test from 3Dmarkvantage to see if i could get it to crash. It passed that. Turned off screen saver, automatic updates and made sure my power settings were not causing the comp to sleep. I've dropped settings and resolutions in game to see if that helped. It didnt. I tried different outlets to plug into, thought maybe it was a power issue. That didnt help. . Any other thoughts or options would be great. Thanks
Laptop is a Gateway p-7805u
Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 / 2.26 GHz
4gb DDR3 SDRAM - 1066.0 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Edition
I've been banging my head against the wall for weeks trying to fix this. In the past month I've been getting black screen crashes, only while playing games. The games are WoW and SWToR. I've played WoW for almost three years on this laptop with no problems. There is no consistancy as to when this happens. I might play for 4 hours and it never happens, then 20 min into another session it happens. The screen goes black and the audio gets stuck in buzzing loop. I cannot do anything at that point, just have to hard restart. I've updated graphics driver, then rolled it back. Nothing. Temps are fine with nothing getting over 60C. I cleaned the heck outta the thing with a vacuum and canned air. Ran memtest86 with 3 passes. I did the benchmark test from 3Dmarkvantage to see if i could get it to crash. It passed that. Turned off screen saver, automatic updates and made sure my power settings were not causing the comp to sleep. I've dropped settings and resolutions in game to see if that helped. It didnt. I tried different outlets to plug into, thought maybe it was a power issue. That didnt help. . Any other thoughts or options would be great. Thanks
Laptop is a Gateway p-7805u
Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 / 2.26 GHz
4gb DDR3 SDRAM - 1066.0 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Edition
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Gateway P-7805u
- CPU
- Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 / 2.26 GHz
