Constant Crashing

I have a Gateway p7805u. For several months I was experiencing severe BSODs which were of the "a timing interval was not received by a secondary processor variety". At some point I managed to get it stable enough that these crashes were rare as long as I was plugged into AC power. On battery, it would crash in 5 minutes or less, usually less.

So this week, I tired of not being able to use my laptop on battery. I updated the video driver to the latest nvidia offering. The crashes came back, and in force. Gateway support had me do a factory restore. That did not help, and now I am at square one.

At present, I get both the "timing interval" blue screen, and a new one -- "unrecoverable hardware error". It's mostly stable in safe mode, though I do get some crashes there. In regular mode, it often won't make it past the log in screen before crashing.

I don't believe temperatures are the cause, though they may be a factor. I had HW monitor running at one point and temps were not exceeding 60C.

As of now I have a fancy door stop. Hopefully it can be a laptop again soon, even if I can't use it on battery I would be ok with it.

minidump coming....

minidump now included

I have asked for some Technincal Help with readig your Minidump,

Have you Installed the most recent Drivers for your Hardware?

Hope This Helps,
Josh

Shadowjk said:

I have asked for some Technincal Help with readig your Minidump,

Have you Installed the most recent Drivers for your Hardware?

Hope This Helps,
Josh

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I have tried to, but many of them won't install in safe mode, and I so often crash in regular mode, that it is hard to successfully complete the driver upgrade. I know I have successfully updated the chipset driver. I am hesitant to do the latest nvidia graphics driver as that was what I changed when the constant crashing re-emerged. I will attempt to do the rest as best I can, though I suspect my problems ultimately reside elsewhere.

As a side note, would you use the ones from the gateway support site, or try to find the individual manufacturers latest driver (which are almost always FAR more current than what gateway has)?

would it be worth it to post any of my other minidumps? I have several.

Yes Please it could help determine the Problem

This should contain examples of both the "timing interval" and "unrecoverable hw error" crashes.

I cleverly used my other PC to check out the minidumps. They all say "Hardware" as the probable cause. I wish it were more specific. Any suggestions?