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BSOD while playing certain Steam games, appears video driver related.
System Specs
Samsung Series 3 Laptop Model NP350V5C.
Age: About 4 months.
CPU: Intel Core i5 3210M @ 2.50 GHz
RAM: 8 gigs
GPU: AMD Radeon. HD 7670M
BSOD Description
I was playing Portal 2 tonight for roughly 90 minutes, when on a loading screen, the game froze. Next there was some short, vertical, multicoloured lines that were overlaid on the loading screen, that kinda looked like a small barcode repeated over and over in a line. The system then crashed to the BSOD.
The BSOD itself said that "attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed". I did take a picture of it, if anyone wants me to upload that.
The game is a fresh install done just last night. I have had this problem before with Portal 2 (hence the reinstall), and I also have had it with Dear Esther and Fallout: New Vegas. At first I thought that my computer was trying to run the games on the integrated HD 4000 on the CPU, so I set my laptop to high performance and plugged it into the wall so it would (hopefully) only run on the AMD GPU. Dear Esther and Fallout both appear to be fine (previously they crashed on start up but I was able to play about 30 minutes of each last night), but Portal 2 crashed again tonight.
To my knowledge, my graphics card drivers are up to date, as the version number on my computer matches that on the Samsung website.
I am relatively certain it has not overheated, as I always run Core Temp in the background, keep the vents clear, and it never gets about 60 C according to Core Temp, and I've had it run there for hours while playing other games and there was no issue.
Thank you for your time and any help you might throw my way. If you need any more information just let me know, please.