Hey, I'm a new Toshiba user. M500-S433. Got mine during PC fair.

So I have this problem, sometimes when I'm using the laptop, the screen will suddenly black out and then recover few seconds later... Then a notification bubble will pop and it says the NVIDIA kernel driver has stopped responding and recovered. At first I thought it was momentarily and one-time only but recently it happened a few times, is there ANY way to make this problem disappear permanently?

Thanks!

Just finished asking Mr. Google on your cooler pad. Wow! Its one big and mean machine! 
How is it? All the pictures from the internet never show the bottom part of the cooler pad, is it covered up? Is it easy to gain access to the fans? O____O
Anyway, grats on your cooler pad purchase hehe  Hope it will serve you well 

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Added on April 24, 2010, 12:49 am

Hihi, congratulations on your laptop purchase 
Are you running on 64-bit Windows 7? My gf's M500- S433 doesn't seem to have this kind of problems though. But a quick search through the internet has shown that this problem is actually quite rampant and there's not much solutions at the moment. Some say its because of heat, some say its because of incompatibility with vista/windwos 7, some say its because of some other background programs which clashes with the GPU. I'm not sure.

In my view, perhaps you can wait for the latest driver (NVIDIA G310M) updates or if its not too inconvenient for you, ask Toshiba to switch a new M500 for you to see whether the problem still exist