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I would better money on this being a hardware fault. Flash the BIOS from HP's site, then try uninstalling and reinstalling the ACPI driver. If that doesn't work, send it back to HP - this is probably a motherboard fault.
Actually, I can't rely directly on HP Support, since this laptop is not supported by HP Brazil.
I'm not an expert, but could this really be a faulty hardware? I mean, even if it was, shouldn't I be getting BSODs and things like that? And how do I exactly reinstall the ACPI drivers?
Last edited by phmoschetta; 21 Feb 2010 at 20:56.
Right click the ACPI entry in device manager select uninstall and reboot. Things may slow down create a restore point before hand. This points to hardware, programs do not randomly crash, especially after fresh 7 installs.
There are many "ACPI" entries in the Device Manager. I can't find a guide for uninstalling it.
Under "Computer":
- ACPI x64-based PC (this one has any "Uninstall" option greyed-out)
Under "System devices":
- ACPI Fan
- ACPI Fixed Feature Button
- ACPI Lid
- ACPI Power Button
- ACPI Sleep Button
- ACPI Thermal Zone
- Microsoft ACPI-Compilant Embedded Controller
- Microsoft ACPI-Compilant System
- Microsoft Windows Management Interface for ACPI
Just a question for ya... did you have them(Nvidia) choose your driver or did you put in your card specs and d/l yourself? If so did you happen to choose 32bit instead of 64bit?
MSI Afterburner <---- get this and post a pic of your settings and temps. are you overclocking at all?
Does your video have a fan on it...If so using the bottom control in afterburner, click it from auto then turn it up into the 60+ range and see if more air helps.
With all your driver updating you don't happen to have an Nvidia 3d vision plug-in enabled in FF?
Also have you updated Flash itself? to 10? The plug-in and all?
I don't think there is a dedicated fan to the GPU itself, so the "Auto" button is greyed-out. I have the latest version of the Flash Player 10 plug-in. I also tried using version 9 and beta version 10.1.
Here's the thread I started @ Adobe Forums a few weeks ago: "http://forums.adobe.com/message/2607583".