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Answer» Lenovo W150HN.Purchased on 2011 . Windows 7 64 bit up to date. 8GB RAM , Crucial C300 SSD. On board sound. NVIDIA 540M graphics card. Comodo Internet Security, regularly scanned with Malwarebytes,Spybot S&D,Kaspersky Virus Cleaner. I have a Windows CD.
Problem started happening 2 weeks AGO and I do not recall INSTALLING anything prior to that.I leave the laptop on all night to run a small program on background.I lower the resolution and put it in power saver mode with CPU throttle and sleep disabled.The program I run is not CPU/RAM/GPU intensive.Very small program that I've been using for a long time. The problem is , the computer crashes and reboots itself overnight.When I go to Device Manager I can't find the NVIDIA graphics card and only Intel integrated one is listed.When I right click on DESKTOP, I do not see the NVIDIA control panel.If I try to reinstall the driver it says no compatible hardware is detected. If I reboot the problem still exists,the card is not recognized.If I shut down the computer then start it, then NVIDIA comes back and everything works normal.I can even play a GPU intensive game without any hiccups.The card disappears and causes computer to reboot overnight when I leave it on.The GPu temps are not that high, around 60C.Has always been like that.The computer has been cleaned from dust internally about 5 months ago. The Reliability Monitor shows this "Shut down unexpectedly" error
Code: [Select]BCCode: f4 BCP1: 0000000000000003 BCP2: FFFFFA8008A6E770 BCP3: FFFFFA8008A6EA50 BCP4: FFFFF800031CF7B0 OS Version: 6_1_7601 Service PACK: 1_0 Product: 256_1 the following error was from 2 days ago
Code: [Select]BCCode: 7a BCP1: 0000000000000020 BCP2: FFFFFFFFC000009D BCP3: FFFFFA8007805078 BCP4: 0000000000000000 OS Version: 6_1_7601 Service Pack: 1_0 Product: 256_1 This error was from March 21.It is titled "Video Hardware Error" and the details are
Code: [Select]BCCode: 117 BCP1: FFFFFA800873C320 BCP2: FFFFF880040F1D10 BCP3: 0000000000000000 BCP4: 0000000000000000 OS Version: 6_1_7601 Service Pack: 1_0 Product: 256_1
It's pretty obvious that NVIDIA is causing this problem but could this be a software related issue?I don't recall updating anything prior to that.I just ran a 2-pass Memtest86+ and RAM came up clean.Sfc /scannow came up clean as well.Computer is clean from viruses.Verified by 5 different scanners.Any ideas ? Thanks.
Edit: I installed the latest NVIDIA drivers from official website but the problem still happens.I was able to reproduce the problem. This happens only when I throttle the CPU to less than 50% from Power Options advanced settings.Keeping it like that for few hours apparently causes a CONFLICT between NVIDIA graphics card and 2nd gen Intel i7.The problem can be considered solved.
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