Pink screen! Hope it's not my GPU!

[kimiraikkonen]

Hi friends, I had a very worring problem about my GTX460 using 296.10 in my G53JW. While i was watching a full screen Youtube video, and a song was being played on background, i suddenly had a kind of pitched PINK and green vertical bars, like pink screen of death. The computer was totally unresponsive till i reboot but interestingly the music was being played with no problem. I took some pics, and video. I'm sending the pics to you, hope you lead me to a easy fix and hope it's not hardware. That happened me second time. I played F1 2011 at high settings about 2 hours and had NO problems. Maybe flash or DWM has bugs with 296.10 resulting vibrating pink/green bars? I was watching that video when the problem have appeared:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrijmByepcc

Hope you see my pics mate!

http://i45.tinypic.com/14wbv9h.jpg

http://i45.tinypic.com/1214z0o.jpg

http://i49.tinypic.com/axcojo.jpg

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBUNDTir9xQ&feature=youtu.be

Please look up the screenshots, i also have VGA video in WMV format that is recorded when the problem has appeared. I can upload it for further investigation. My temps are fine, GPU didn't exceed 80 and played F1 2011 fluently. I never EVER HAD such issue in 285.62 or stock 259.34.

Your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated 😞

Onur

[sonanda]

I've had exactly the same issue with nvidia 301.42 drivers. I downgraded my drivers and after a while I've installed the latest one (306.23). Everything looks fine now.

[kimiraikkonen]

sonanda wrote:
I've had exactly the same issue with nvidia 301.42 drivers. I downgraded my drivers and after a while I've installed the latest one (306.23). Everything looks fine now.

Which driver version are you using right now so?

[PILGRIM]

kimiraikkonen wrote:
Which driver version are you using right now so?

He has "the latest one (306.23)".

[PILGRIM]

kimiraikkonen: For further reading on this issue, go to these threads:

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?18223-Pink-Screen-of-Death-Help-Please!&highlight=Pink+scre...
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?15446-296.16-Question&highlight=Pink+screen
http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?12190-g74sx-3D.-Screen-turns-a-static-Pink-out-of-nowhere.&...

[Henrysyy]

ive been in this situation before and made a post a while back . its just about the drivers. either go back to your past drivers that were fine or update to another new one 😛

[kimiraikkonen]

Thanks PILGRIM, Scott and Henrysyy, xeromist and all the guys, as recommended i'll try 301.42 but i also want to ask whether i'd better trying 295.73 which is previous and older WHQL release than problematic 296.10? Or should i rely on 301.42 which confuses me a bit.

Thanks again!

[cl-scott]

I would always recommend going with the newer drivers unless for some reason those are not working for you.

[Wtfismyname]

I'm having the EXACT same problem with my laptop. Very frustrating

[kimiraikkonen]

Wtfismyname wrote:
I'm having the EXACT same problem with my laptop. Very frustrating

What's your Nvidia Verde GPU driver version? And when does it happen? Are the symtoms and effects the same? See screenshot and video for confirmation.