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    XPS M1730 9800M SLI frozen issue

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by lams, Sep 11, 2011.

  1. lams

    lams Newbie

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    Hi I have a Dell XPS 1730 with 9800M SLI 512M in it. I am using Windows 7 Professional x64 on it. Everything works fine until I install F1 2011 on it. After I played the game for half hour and my computer start frozen and tell me my display card driver is stop response. I have try different version of nVidia drivers and no help at all. But if I use Microsoft default standard VGA Graphic Adapter driver instead of nVidia one, my laptop works fine. But it means I cannot play any games and even DirectX cannot be installed.

    And I use hwinfo32 to keep track my GPU temperature, both are just over 50c when windows frozen.

    Any suggestion would be helpful!

    Lams
     
    lams, Sep 11, 2011
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    alaariadh Notebook Enthusiast

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    set power to hi performance and disconnect the net when u r playing try this steps first
     
    alaariadh, Sep 11, 2011
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    Hi alaariadh,

    Thanks for your suggestion. After I set Windows Power Plan to Hi Performance, after install nVidia driver, I can run the Windows Experience Index without issue. That's the good sign. But after my machine run couple mins, my screen black out and recover with this error again: Display Driver stop response and recover.

    Any more suggestion?
     
    lams, Sep 12, 2011
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