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Anybody got any info on a good touchscreen gaming laptop preferably with backlight keyboard

Not sure if I want another desktop at the moment
 

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Well, I'm at lunch and just ran 3d mark with the nvidia driver settings and no flickering. However, if I don't use the driver settings, I get flickering. Should I be worried, or is this just an SLI issue that is normal?
 

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Well, I'm at lunch and just ran 3d mark with the nvidia driver settings and no flickering. However, if I don't use the driver settings, I get flickering. Should I be worried, or is this just an SLI issue that is normal?

i would roll back the driver to 314.22...i'm gonna do this when i get home.
 

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I think mostly older cards (4-500 series) were having trouble with those drivers
 

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yeah, my 560ti is affected...wish i would have known this last month.
i've been troubleshooting my system for the past few week.

i took it apart, cleaned it, ran diagnostics etc.
 

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Irql_not_less_or_equal BSOD while gaming

started with Devil May Cry...not blue screen but crash to desk top with "program stopped responding".
same thing with Just Cause 2.

then i started playing Far Cry 3 Dragon Blood and it's shytting the bed to blue screen.

this started about 3 weeks ago.

i ran the FPS test with Arkham City 3 times in a row...no crash.
i ran the FPS test with Just Cause 2 times in a row...no crash.

i played Arkham City for about 20 minutes last night with no problems.


i got a 700w coolmaster psu
560ti gpu
i5 3rd gen
16gigs ddr3 ram
mobo is Asus p8z77-v lx


should i take out ram sticks to see if it's memory related?
irql is usually a low-level driver/hardware problem. any pci/pci-e cards besides the graphics card in your mobo ?
 

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try updating drivers for your motherboard. irql BSOD is usually an interrupt issue which in a lot of cases is a result of a driver trying to access a protected or invalid (technically the same) memory area and segfaulting. a lot of times its because irq sharing is fukked.

Id actually try and remove the video card from the pcie socket and put it back in, as well as ram, while removing dust from the box. then update drivers for mobo.

this is the reason Ive asked if you have a dedicated audio card in pci slot or somethin....sometimes those devices fight each other and you have to change irq mappings.
 

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try updating drivers for your motherboard. irql BSOD is usually an interrupt issue which in a lot of cases is a result of a driver trying to access a protected or invalid (technically the same) memory area and segfaulting. a lot of times its because irq sharing is fukked.

Id actually try and remove the video card from the pcie socket and put it back in, as well as ram, while removing dust from the box. then update drivers for mobo.

this is the reason Ive asked if you have a dedicated audio card in pci slot or somethin....sometimes those devices fight each other and you have to change irq mappings.


i don't know how to update my mobo.

any help would be appreciated.

my box is dust free, i keep it up high and clean out what little dust there is every couple of months.
 

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last month has been hell, thanks for the input everyone.

i did reduce my clock to standard 822 (below the factory overclock)...still crashing but not BSOD.
 
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