ASUS G72GX Stuttering

Hello,



I purchased a refurbished G72GX on newegg a little less than a month ago. (also my first laptop) There hasn't been an issues up until about a week ago. I noticed while I was playing WoW my laptop would stutter 1-2 times then drop to unplayable levels where I would have to full power down and then reboot. It only did this once or twice in the last week so I didn't think much of it besides maybe overheating because the laptop does run a little hot.



Then it happened again while just simply browsing the net and listening to my iTunes. The sound will stutter along with everything else. But now it does it regardless of whatever I'm doing within 10 minutes of rebooting. I've read that sound drivers sometimes conflict, I removed all the creative software to no avail, I have also reinstalled all the drivers to also no avail.



I was just curious if anyone else has had this problem and has any solutions before I just decide to pack it back up and RMA it before my 30 day warranty is over.

Reply 1 : ASUS G72GX Stuttering

slow progression like that sounds like cooling problems



download hwinfo32 and check your temperatures



if they are really bad (over 65C while idle) then get some canned air and blow out the vents

Reply 2 : ASUS G72GX Stuttering

Do you have an atheros wireless card? Does this issue happen if you disable the wireless card and run wired ethernet?

Reply 3 : ASUS G72GX Stuttering

You may have core parking problems.



Try this fix:

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FIX: - Go to Regedit - Select Edit > Find... and find this key: " 0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583 " - Within this key, there is a value called: " ValueMax " This value represents the % number of cores the system will park - Change the value of " ValueMax" to 0 so that, it matches " ValueMin " - You will have to find the key a few times and repeat the process for each time it is found - the number of instances will depend on the number of power profiles in your system. To do this go back up to Edit > Find Next. (I had 3 instances of this key in my registry.) - Do a full shutdown and power-off and cold-re-start.

Reply 4 : ASUS G72GX Stuttering

Actually, it sounds like your GPU is heating up. It's got an nvidia one, right?