Sony Vaio Z NVIDIA driver crashes

[HHN-19]

VPCZ12Z9E

Frequently crashes with the BCCode 117.

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[stephanius]

Some questions:

1. Which exact model do you have? There are five generations of VGN-Z and three generations of VPCZ Series models, some of which have different chipsets.
2. Which driver version and source (originally installed, an official update or some in-official source) are you using?
3. Which operating system are you using? Preinstalled or your own?

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[HHN-19]

1) VPCZ12Z9E purchased august 2010

Default System BIOS

i7 CPU M620

8GB RAM

LCD 1920x1080

2) NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, driver version: 8.16.11.8880 (orginally installed)

3) Windows 7 (64bit) SP 1

Factory software reloaded by Sony in may 2011

[Blencogo]

At your own risk, you may wish to try the nVidia driver supplied with the VPC-Z13Z9E/X which has the same GPU as your VPC-Z12Z9E/X.

The Z13 has Version 8.16.11.9024 and may be worth a try?  It should be installed in SPEED Mode and the download will need to be Extracted to show the Setup.exe.

http://support.vaio.sony.eu/computing/vaio/downloads/info/info.aspx?l=en_GB&url=VAIO/Original/NVIDIA...

[HHN-19]

Sony support do not applaud the VPCZ13 driver.

They recomend to have the computer sendt back, for a full reload of factory software.

The first reload was in May and make no change, the driver still crashes.