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Hi everyone, I was wondering if you could help me with the following problem.
Recently, my laptop (ASUS K50IN - NVIDIA G102M GPU) has started to randomly lock up whilst playing online video. Local playback seems unaffected. The screen freezes and the audio plays back incredibly slowly. I cannot do anything but wait until it unfreezes itself after about a minute. In more severe cases, the screen goes blank and a buzzing sound is emitted from the speakers. Upon recovery I get a message saying that my display driver has been successfully recovered. Sometimes the video goes green too upon freezing.
Here's what I've checked in order to try fix it:
I've tried different browsers (Chrome 11 and IE9) - both are affected and I've tried HTML5 videos instead of Flash but that didn't fix anything. I've done a clean install of my graphics drivers (both older and latest) as well as trying a System Restore in case it was a registry issue (as suggested by ASUS Support). As a last resort I thought it may be a temp issue but GPU-Z logged it as only being around 63c and 23% load when it crashes. Also, disabling hardware acceleration doesn't seem to fix it either.
Can anyone offer any other ways of troubleshooting this problem?
Cheers!
Custards
Recently, my laptop (ASUS K50IN - NVIDIA G102M GPU) has started to randomly lock up whilst playing online video. Local playback seems unaffected. The screen freezes and the audio plays back incredibly slowly. I cannot do anything but wait until it unfreezes itself after about a minute. In more severe cases, the screen goes blank and a buzzing sound is emitted from the speakers. Upon recovery I get a message saying that my display driver has been successfully recovered. Sometimes the video goes green too upon freezing.
Here's what I've checked in order to try fix it:
I've tried different browsers (Chrome 11 and IE9) - both are affected and I've tried HTML5 videos instead of Flash but that didn't fix anything. I've done a clean install of my graphics drivers (both older and latest) as well as trying a System Restore in case it was a registry issue (as suggested by ASUS Support). As a last resort I thought it may be a temp issue but GPU-Z logged it as only being around 63c and 23% load when it crashes. Also, disabling hardware acceleration doesn't seem to fix it either.
Can anyone offer any other ways of troubleshooting this problem?
Cheers!
Custards
yet Ubuntu still works like a champ... pretty confused here. All my drivers and software are up to date and I barely have anything on it right now. I'll keep trying though and if anyone has any more ideas feel free throw them out there.