G5-793 keeps restarting w/Nvidia update

Hello All;

I am trouble with my Predator 17 G5-793 laptop, it seems that installing the latest Nvidia drivers causes my laptop to restart by itself. I cannot determine under what circumstances the restart occurs but I suspect that it happens when the laptop tries to enter sleep or hibernate mode. I have contacted Nvidia and they suggested that I update the BIOS and Intel chipset. The Bios update worked successfully but launching the Intel chipset update just results in the Windows 10 prompt asking me if I want to run the app but nothing happens after I click proceed/yes/etc.

I had previously contacted Microsoft and they uninstalled the latest Nvidia update and that seemed to resolve the problem a couple of months ago.

Recently, Nvidia again prompted me to update to the latest drivers, which I did and the problems started to occur once again. If I remove the Nvidia GeForce Experience app and use the default Microsoft default graphics driver, the laptop behaves properly - all programs are left running intact and I can resume where I left off. I even tried to install the previous version of the Nvidia app/driver and that is causing the restart to occur.

Nothing is wrong with the laptop nor the Nvidia drivers, its just frustrating to have to relaunch all my apps if I step away from the laptop for extended periods.

Any ideas?

Kaedee

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kaedee said:

Sorry @OGMike for the late reply, but I wanted some time between the fix (below) and my response to ensure that it has in-fact worked.

So. I finally contacted Microsoft Support again and they suggested I do a clean install of the Windows 10 and gave me tools and step by step guide on how to do it. I have not had any random restarts since the vanilla OS was installed, this of course means that I don't have the Acer/Predator apps/utilities (like onscreen Caps Lock notification, etc) but it is stable and I can live with that.

My take aways;

* As expected, soon as Acer support noted I was not in warranty they dropped me like a hot potato and never returned any of my emails.
* I don't think the Nvidia drivers were to blame as I do currently have them installed - might be their Nvidia experience App?
* I do suspect that maybe my anti-virus app was to blame (although it is working fine on my Desktop with AMD graphics) and I have not yet installed the AV back onto the laptop

Thanks for all of your support/ideas!

To get your Acer stuffs back, simply download them (Predator Sense, Acer Quick Access) from Acer support site using your model. They all will come back (those on/off notifications). Vanilla WIndows 10 1903 works better than Acer's customised Windows 10.

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OGMike

Have you tried manually installing hte drivers directly from the Nvidia site?

kaedee

Yes I did, Nvidia even gave me the older version and I just installed that without the GeForce experience app and now it freezes when the screensaver/sleep mode kicks in

OGMike

You may havve to back up your files and then restore the laptop, back to its last working state

kaedee

I do have a restore point created before the latest update that was working but I was hoping to try and get this working with the latest drivers

OGMike

Also have you turned off sleep/hibernation mode? If not, go into you power options and do so.

OGMike

@kaedee look into your reliability monitor and see what’s going on, I looked in mine and saw something about my Nvidia drivers so I’m going to try and go back to an older more stable version after a fresh install of windows for the millionth time and try mine out.

kaedee

@OGMike how do I get to the reliability monitor and what did you see that lead you to reinstall windows?

OGMike

@kaedee it is a software that comes factory with Windows, go into search bar for Windows and just search it, mine showed something about drivers, I don’t remember exactly, so I reinstalled so I would have a fully clean and fresh install to get rid of any bad drivers, also I was recommended to do that by a few on other forums, if you do so, backup any personal files onto a seperate drive, if you can. I haven’t been able to test mine out since I did it, but it’s worth a shot.

kaedee

@OGMike I just read the report and it shows alot of blue screens of death since installing the Nvidia drivers, probably need to reset the laptop.

Side question, I have a separate D drive which houses all of my documents, will resetting the predator also reset the d drive? I mean I should get a backup done before I reset but just asking

OGMike

@kaedee I’m pretty sure there is an option to only restore the drive that has windows on it, I could be wrong but I too have a second drive in one of my laptops and I’m pretty sure it gave me that option.

OGMike

@kaedee any luck?

kaedee

@OGMike I haven't tried yet, gonna do a data backup first even though everything i read on the web says the same as you suggested abpve (you get to choose which drive to reset).

probably tomorrow, was watching the nba game

OGMike

@kaedee okay, update me when you can

kaedee

@OGMike no news to update, I have contacted nvidia, microsoft and now acer technical support. No one can pinpoint any definitive problems or solutions and the laptop keeps BSODing and restarting. I have run the recovery and now Acer wants me to install a fresh copy of windows after formatting my c drive which I will do once I can locate a 16gb usb drive.

I'll keep you posted

OGMike

@kaedee okay, good luck, also I cant remember if i told you, but what helped my PH315-51 is a microsoft tech support agent went into mine and installed some drivers and havnt had any issues since other than freezing, but i uninstalled the drivers an reinstalled them through windows update and no problems so far

kaedee

Sorry @OGMike for the late reply, but I wanted some time between the fix (below) and my response to ensure that it has in-fact worked.

So. I finally contacted Microsoft Support again and they suggested I do a clean install of the Windows 10 and gave me tools and step by step guide on how to do it. I have not had any random restarts since the vanilla OS was installed, this of course means that I don't have the Acer/Predator apps/utilities (like onscreen Caps Lock notification, etc) but it is stable and I can live with that.

My take aways;

* As expected, soon as Acer support noted I was not in warranty they dropped me like a hot potato and never returned any of my emails.
* I don't think the Nvidia drivers were to blame as I do currently have them installed - might be their Nvidia experience App?
* I do suspect that maybe my anti-virus app was to blame (although it is working fine on my Desktop with AMD graphics) and I have not yet installed the AV back onto the laptop

Thanks for all of your support/ideas!

XdxD

kaedee said:

Sorry @OGMike for the late reply, but I wanted some time between the fix (below) and my response to ensure that it has in-fact worked.

So. I finally contacted Microsoft Support again and they suggested I do a clean install of the Windows 10 and gave me tools and step by step guide on how to do it. I have not had any random restarts since the vanilla OS was installed, this of course means that I don't have the Acer/Predator apps/utilities (like onscreen Caps Lock notification, etc) but it is stable and I can live with that.

My take aways;

* As expected, soon as Acer support noted I was not in warranty they dropped me like a hot potato and never returned any of my emails.
* I don't think the Nvidia drivers were to blame as I do currently have them installed - might be their Nvidia experience App?
* I do suspect that maybe my anti-virus app was to blame (although it is working fine on my Desktop with AMD graphics) and I have not yet installed the AV back onto the laptop

Thanks for all of your support/ideas!

To get your Acer stuffs back, simply download them (Predator Sense, Acer Quick Access) from Acer support site using your model. They all will come back (those on/off notifications). Vanilla WIndows 10 1903 works better than Acer's customised Windows 10.

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