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Precision m6400 Black Screen Crashes...
hi, i'm a new and somewhat happy owner of a Precision m6400...
basically, love the machine for work... so far, i've not experienced any issues... but once when gaming (wow) and once when just surfing the net, i've experienced 2 black screen crashes where the only way to get any response out of the system is to do a hard reboot.
i am not sure if the heat is an issue... i've noticed from another website that there have been others who have had similar experiences... and hence i'm beginning to be concerned.
i'm running Vista 32bit
system specs:
Quadro 3700
CPU: Q9300
RAM: 8GB (yea, did not update to 64 bit yet... will do soon...)
any/all help will be greatly appreciated.
cdubea
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December 27th, 2012 19:00
Yes, I would love to see the tutorial. I've gotten to the point that every time I try to show a video, my M6400 shuts down.
thanks
laferrierejc
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June 1st, 2013 19:00
I (believe) I fixed my video card problem.
King's Bounty was crashing my game consistently after 5 minutes of play. I tried a few things first to see what the issue was.
I first tried reducing the ram speed down to recommended (i.e. 460MHz Core, 690MHz memory and 1150MHz Shader.) but it still crashed, so then I tried 460M Core, and it DIDN'T crash.
Then I got to thinking, what if it's just a voltage problem? Certainly isn't heat. So I used gpu-z to export a rom image of my card. Opened it in nibitor, and saw that it was running at 1 Volt vs .85 for the highest clock speeds. Yet, when those clock speeds are lowered to 460/690/1150 it doesn't crash, so IT'S NOT the 1V that's killing it. Then I thought, well, maybe I can overvolt it.
So I read around, and saw someone had stable speeds at 1.03 volts
http://web.archive.org/liveweb/http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/583412-crysis-quadro-fx-3700m.html
"Anyway I'm happy with FX 3700M it's stable in Crysis at 550 1375 900(1.03v) "
So I set mine to 1.05 anyways (one guy in the thread said he had his at 1.05), just for the extra oomph, and things appear to be stable without the need for downclocking, I played some more king's bounty for about 15 minutes with NO ISSUES!
btw, gpu-z and nibitor and nvflash (and a win32 bootable device) are all you need to fix the card issue.
Here's the bios (just need nvflash and a win32 bootable device to flash it)
http://www.mediafire.com/?19d9te0s6pb9t17
K3wlster
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December 24th, 2013 07:00
Hi Laferrierejc,
Your post is very helpful and sounds promising. I am downloading gpu-z, nibitor and nvflash now. I have a win32 box that I can use for this.
*Is there any advice that you could provide me that might decrease the learning curve? :)
Many Thanks!
akmalaref
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June 25th, 2015 07:00
Please, I want a program to rewrite the new values of GPU frequencies on bios
or if you can do this to Dell m6500 NVidia quadro 3800m
GPU - Clock 675 MHz
Shader Clock 1688 MHz
Memory Clock 1000 MHz
and I want to replace this values by:
GPU - Clock 383 MHz
Shader Clock 767 MHz
Memory Clock 301 MHz