When I play minecraft modder or unmodded after about 10minutes to an hour my graphics card crashes and I've been trying to look up why with little luck. One thing was to update the graphics driver, I did that, no luck. Sometimes I get a message saying that it was able to recover and then if I try to play it crashes within 5minutes. I'm not sure how to fix this, I've seen some people say to re-install windows, but I can't really do that, I don't have a disk with windows on it to even try. Does anyone know of any possible solutions for this, or at least where to look?
Ok I've even tried setting the "TdrDelay" to different values I tried 5,10, and 60(decimal) and they changed nothing with the crashes. I updated Java, that seemed to fix it for a day. I have even installed a beta driver for NVIDIA and that didn't help either. Does anyone know what could be going on? I see most people say they get "a black screen" with this, but I get all kinds of different colors on my screen when it crashes. Sometime it says that the "kernal modual"(I think) has crashed and recovered other times it says the driver lost connection to the display, and other times my laptop just locks up until i reboot it.
could your GPU be over heating? Evidence pointing towards overheating would be that the crashes happen fairly quickly again once it starts happening until you leave your laptop alone long enough for it to really cool off.
I've watched the heat of my CPU, graphics card, and harddisk. Those all stay pretty much the same and it randomly crashes. I've left it off over night and it still crashed at about the same time if does if it's been on for a few hours. If this was the issue what would I be able to do to fix it?
It doesn't sound like it is your issue.
But if it was you'd start with the simple things and work up to the more complicated things.
1) Make sure your laptop vents are not blocked, i.e. it's placed on a hard flat surface with plenty of space
2) Make sure that the fan is working
3) Make sure that the inside of your case is clean
and only as a final option
4) Make sure that the GPU heatsink is properly connected and the thermal paste is in good condition
You shouldn't worry about 4 unless your laptop is several years old or has recently been taken apart. (i.e. just before you started experiencing this problem).
This seems to have worked so far, thanks so much!
I have no idea what to try now.
But if it was you'd start with the simple things and work up to the more complicated things.
1) Make sure your laptop vents are not blocked, i.e. it's placed on a hard flat surface with plenty of space
2) Make sure that the fan is working
3) Make sure that the inside of your case is clean
and only as a final option
4) Make sure that the GPU heatsink is properly connected and the thermal paste is in good condition
You shouldn't worry about 4 unless your laptop is several years old or has recently been taken apart. (i.e. just before you started experiencing this problem).