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W700 regular BSODs.

#1 Post by Thinkpad4by3 » Sat Jul 22, 2017 8:04 pm

My W700 gets BSODs on a regular basis. Usually occurs every 4-5 hours.

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WUXGA Awesome LCD.
4GB RAM
W7 Ultimate

Is this the nVIDIA can't make reliable parts to save their soul problem like the T61p had or something totally different?
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Re: W700 regular BSODs.

#2 Post by danikayser84 » Sat Jul 22, 2017 8:31 pm

Do you get a screen blankout shortly before a BSOD? I had BSOD issues with my ThinkPad W701 but I found it was due to an issue with Firefox (does it happen with web browsing or similar?) and disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox stopped the blankouts/BSODing
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Re: W700 regular BSODs.

#3 Post by Thinkpad4by3 » Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:57 pm

danikayser84 wrote:
Sat Jul 22, 2017 8:31 pm
Do you get a screen blankout shortly before a BSOD? I had BSOD issues with my ThinkPad W701 but I found it was due to an issue with Firefox (does it happen with web browsing or similar?) and disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox stopped the blankouts/BSODing
I use chrome on that machine.

It happens when going into suspend or when the machine get significantly slower and then it BSODs.
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Re: W700 regular BSODs.

#4 Post by RealBlackStuff » Sun Jul 23, 2017 4:08 am

Try a PaleMoon and Firemin combo, they use minimal RAM.
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