Yes I have encountered that before its mainly by drivers, overclocking and hardware issue. TDR failure can be a hardware fail, if you just bought it new, send it back to the stores. There is ways to help fix an TDR problem but If I bought something new from the store and it already has an TDR problem I would send it back.
This is to stop the TDR issue but sometimes it will not work if you have a very faulty GPU. TDR is a pain and mainly it caused by NVIDIA, Windows update or hardware failure, but as I said you don't need to go through this stuff if you bought it new from the store.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487368.aspx
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Been building PC's for 8 Years! 😉
This is to stop the TDR issue but sometimes it will not work if you have a very faulty GPU. TDR is a pain and mainly it caused by NVIDIA, Windows update or hardware failure, but as I said you don't need to go through this stuff if you bought it new from the store.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487368.aspx
No problem. It's not that serious of an issue if it was an software issue but it may bring down to hardware issue, as it could be shown on your BSOD. TDR should be recovered at Windows but as I said its better to get an fully functional working laptop from the store you bought instead of going through 1000 steps. Then later on you can do what ever you want with it 😛
Oh and Welcome to the ROG forums, and hope we here from you again 🙂
Case: Antec 300 Mini Tower Motherboard: GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 (rev1.3) CPU: i5 2500k @ 4.5ghz Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO GPU: GIGABYTE GTX 560ti (950mhz) RAM: G.Skill 8 GB DDR3 @ 1600mhz PSU: Corsair CX 750 Driver: 320.00 Been building PC's for 8 Years! 😉
Oh and Welcome to the ROG forums, and hope we here from you again 🙂
