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Hi all, I am running into a serious problem with my laptop. First a little history. I purchased a Gateway P-6831FX back in March '08 and have had no problems with it, other than minor heat issues where the system crashes to a black screen. I've solved this heat issue by buying a good laptop cooler from Zalman. I upgraded the CPU to a T9300 last summer and upgraded the ram to 4gb. This fall I wiped the HD and installed Windows 7 as a clean, new install. Since October I've had zero problems, has run beautifully, especially with Windows 7.
Here are the specs for this laptop from Link Removed. As I've said, I'm now running a T9300 Duo Core instead of the stock CPU.
About a week ago after a long session of playing Dragon Age I exited to the desktop to see the system crash to a black screen. I rebooted to a desktop that was littered with missing pixels flickering around the screen. I recognized this as a hardware issue and powered down again and rebooted. This system came back, but now everytime I boot my laptop once Windows boots up there's a brief moment where it goes to a black screen and comes back with the message, "Display Driver has stopped responding and has successfully recovered" at the bottom. Now I'd worry that my GPU is failing, but what's odd is I can load up a game, like Dragon Age or Borderlands and play them for an extended period of time with no issues. This only seems to happen when I boot my system. Sometimes it boots to the missing pixel issue, so I reboot and it comes back fine. Sometimes the desktop crashes to a bsod and reboots. Still after all this I can start up a graphic intensive game and have no issues beyond that.
Any ideas what can be causing this problem and what can fix it? I do still have a 2-year warranty through Best Buy, but I'm worried if I take it in they'll just say it's because I swapped out the CPU or upgraded to a version of Windows that did not come with the laptop and they'll say it's not covered under warranty. :-\
Here are the specs for this laptop from Link Removed. As I've said, I'm now running a T9300 Duo Core instead of the stock CPU.
About a week ago after a long session of playing Dragon Age I exited to the desktop to see the system crash to a black screen. I rebooted to a desktop that was littered with missing pixels flickering around the screen. I recognized this as a hardware issue and powered down again and rebooted. This system came back, but now everytime I boot my laptop once Windows boots up there's a brief moment where it goes to a black screen and comes back with the message, "Display Driver has stopped responding and has successfully recovered" at the bottom. Now I'd worry that my GPU is failing, but what's odd is I can load up a game, like Dragon Age or Borderlands and play them for an extended period of time with no issues. This only seems to happen when I boot my system. Sometimes it boots to the missing pixel issue, so I reboot and it comes back fine. Sometimes the desktop crashes to a bsod and reboots. Still after all this I can start up a graphic intensive game and have no issues beyond that.
Any ideas what can be causing this problem and what can fix it? I do still have a 2-year warranty through Best Buy, but I'm worried if I take it in they'll just say it's because I swapped out the CPU or upgraded to a version of Windows that did not come with the laptop and they'll say it's not covered under warranty. :-\
