5 times in the past day I've had random BSODs / forced shutdowns on my Dell M6600. i thought it was temperature related the first time, however 3 crashes were at non-stress temps, and i've cleaned dust out. one incidident was just random in windows eg. not in a heavy graphical app.
when it happens its like a notebook siezure lol, bright flash, black screen then half the screen glitches, sometimes sound locks, then shutdown & restart.
I've had this laptop for nearly 4 yrs... so its out of warranty... scandisk & memtest clear, the minidump analysis (below) shows suspect video hardware or drivers, but i've tried a clean install with newer drivers, same issue.
my guess is faulty nvidia video card. the mobile quadro cards are not cheap to replace... and i don't want to risk replacing it and it turns out to be something else. anything else i could try before writing off the laptop and buying a new one...? :/
minidump below:
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VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE (116)
Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed.
Arguments:
Arg1: fffffa800d18f4e0, Optional pointer to internal TDR recovery context (TDR_RECOVERY_CONTEXT).
Arg2: fffff8800fc47750, The pointer into responsible device driver module (e.g. owner tag).
Arg3: ffffffffc000009a, Optional error code (NTSTATUS) of the last failed operation.
Arg4: 0000000000000004, Optional internal context dependent data.
Debugging Details:
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TRIAGER: Could not open triage file : e:\dump_analysis\program\triage\modclass.ini, error 2
FAULTING_IP:
nvlddmkm+9af750
fffff880`0fc47750 48ff2569f7ecff jmp qword ptr [nvlddmkm+0x87eec0 (fffff880`0fb16ec0)]
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: GRAPHICS_DRIVER_TDR_FAULT
BUGCHECK_STR: 0x116
PROCESS_NAME: System
CURRENT_IRQL: 0
STACK_TEXT:
fffff880`039eaa48 fffff880`04c6c134 : 00000000`00000116 fffffa80`0d18f4e0 fffff880`0fc47750 ffffffff`c000009a : nt!KeBugCheckEx
fffff880`039eaa50 fffff880`04c3f867 : fffff880`0fc47750 fffffa80`11d40000 00000000`00000000 ffffffff`c000009a : dxgkrnl!TdrBugcheckOnTimeout+0xec
fffff880`039eaa90 fffff880`04c6bf43 : fffffa80`ffffd846 ffffffff`fffe7960 fffffa80`0d18f4e0 00000000`00000000 : dxgkrnl!DXGADAPTER::Reset+0x2a3
fffff880`039eab40 fffff880`04d3c03d : fffffa80`0ca95010 00000000`00000080 00000000`00000000 fffffa80`1043c410 : dxgkrnl!TdrResetFromTimeout+0x23
fffff880`039eabc0 fffff800`0335caba : 00000000`04f78ef5 fffffa80`11d3fb50 fffffa80`0ca18840 fffffa80`11d3fb50 : dxgmms1!VidSchiWorkerThread+0x101
fffff880`039eac00 fffff800`030b4426 : fffff800`03242e80 fffffa80`11d3fb50 fffff800`03250cc0 00000000`ffffffff : nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x5a
fffff880`039eac40 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiStartSystemThread+0x16
STACK_COMMAND: .bugcheck ; kb
FOLLOWUP_IP:
nvlddmkm+9af750
fffff880`0fc47750 48ff2569f7ecff jmp qword ptr [nvlddmkm+0x87eec0 (fffff880`0fb16ec0)]