Laptop crashed hard! Vrooooom...kschhh!

[bigfoot_hunter]

Last night I tried to install HL2 ep1 on my Dell xps m150 with go6800gt ultra and it got so pissed at me. It doesn't mind source or HL2. I got a blue screen saying windows is shutting down to avoid damaging the computer.

Something about updating display adapter and gave an adress etc. Then it wouldn't shut off or anything. I had to wait for the battery to die overnight while i laid in bed and watched the blue screen reflecting on the ceiling.

I turned it on this morning and it worked fine. Any sugestions?

It is not brand new. I bought it from my roomy who only used it about a dozen times and is less than a year old. Pretty wacky, huh?

[regis]

When you got the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) if should have given you a stop error number (which usually looks something like this "0x0000000A"). If without that number it's hard to say exactly what issue it is having with your video drivers.

I guess first thing is you would want to check with Nvidia (or maybe even Microsoft) for an updated video driver.

[DeafOfficeWorker]

When good laptops go bad...

[Gen.Ben]

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Then it wouldn't shut off or anything. I had to wait for the battery to die overnight while i laid in bed and watched the blue screen reflecting on the ceiling.
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You could of easily held the power button for 10 seconds... that forces it to turn off.

Or just yanked the battery out.

Yeah... I would reccomend updating all possible drivers and also running some anti virus/spyware programs.