I've looked around but not found any clear solutions to my problems. My laptops seems to have been randomly acting up with display driver issues occasionally occuring and leading to a period of near unusability. This most recent time the problem manifested without any recent hardware/software change, and in the middle of playing a game. I have since checked my temps, and restarted, and fully cleared /reinstalled my graphics drivers to no avail. The symptoms have generally been graphical artifacts, odd color changes, and a windows error saying that the nvidia driver has stopped responding and has recovered (driver number 266.58 I believe). The laptop is a Asus g73jw, running win7. I plan on doing a check disk, but I wanted to post this first, given that that will likely take freaking forever (the technical term?) Minidump is here: http://cid-b0163999175c4e63.office.live.com/self.aspx/Minidmps/022811-28860-01.dmp

You get this error: Bug Check 0x116: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff557263%28VS.85%29.aspx Try different drivers (also older ones), update the BIOS and make sure the temperature of the laptop/CPU is not too hot."A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

The weird thing is it had no clear cause for starting or stopping. My assumption was heat, but all while the fan is on full, the actual temps were all 60s/low 70. It seems to have stopped now, after the checkdisk, but that turned up no errors. I gather I'll be sending it in for service at some point, since I have no idea of what the actual issue is. Faulty card maybe?

70°C? This is a bit too much for a laptop. Clean the cooler a bit."A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/