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Black screen/vertical line freeze!
yesterday, when my l4d2 did not work (black screen/vertical line freeze) for the first time, i posted in the l4d2 forums Vertical line freeze? (whole system crashes) - Steam Users' Forums but the problem is different now.
It used to be that whenever i played the game for ~5-10 minutes, it froze and i would do a hard reset. Then i updated my drivers to Today's released catalyst 11.1. it still wouldnt work!
so i forgot about teh game and i was watching a youtube video but it seems that the problem has branched out of the game and into the os. In the middle of the youtube video, the freeze happens.
I restarted and opened firefox but i forgot about my youtube tab so it froze again but this time it froze immediately when the page loaded.
now i downgraded back to 10.12 drivers and installed directx 11. i tried dusting out the fan and doing many other things as stated in the other l4d2 thread but it doesnt work!!
help ? i'm out of warranty.
i have an HP laptop dv6-2044ca with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200.
i read on the amd site that someone with the same problem updated his network drivers because it conflicted with his audio drivers and then it worked for him. FOr me, my network drivers are already updated and the thing is, this problem happened randomly!
Before i had this freezing problem, i did a presentation of an ISU and i put my laptop beside a projector which emiitted great heat. when i was done, the laptop was very hot (screen/fan hole area). could this be the cause that ruined my whole computer?
should i try a restore point to 1/25/11 2am?
when i presented it was 1/25/11 1pm (from the until now, ive tried various fixes which made things worse)