I purchased an N45SF 2 days ago for playing Skyrim and experience the system auto-shutdown during gameplay (around 10 mins).

Wish I'd searched the forums before hand...duh

Support call logged so lets see what they say.

updated bios to 218??

Yep running 218. No overclocks, NVIDIA 290.53, and performance power plan.

The game doesn't lag, get 30 fps in Skyrim, but after a while complete shutdown.

Hot air is blowing from the vent, not really powerful, but have no basis for comparison of what it should be anyway.

does anyone's laptop make mechanical click sounds once a while from inside. especialy on the left side from the fan or the usb 3.0 part i guess....

mind describe it more detail? Its like u halfway playing then suddenly *poof* and like blackout like that? Or it hangs/freeze/crash then u have to manually cut the power?

If is the first case most likely is overheated, but me myself a N45SF users also never had that problem at all. Maybe u should try 285.62 instead of 290.53, coz last time i tried somehow 285.62 still more stable. My driver keep crashing when i play games with 290.53

did u patch skyrim to latest 1.4 if so then it does crash with 290.53

nope, i didn't patch it to latest 1.4. But i never had overheat problem with it

im worried bout my charger each time i charge my laptop it feels so HOT ! or is it just normal ?

my unit..when i connect my broadband modem (digi) ALWAYS disconnected which i find VERY annoying & its slow to detect the modem presence when i plug it in the USB port + the speaker..sometimes when listening to music, the music turned off itself hence i have to re-open winamp & replay the song & its back to normal.
After using it for a while, a strange sound comes out from the left side...

perhaps the dvd rom refrresh sound?

I mean 'poof' lights out. Yeah definately overheating, although... I have since removed Throttlestop (which I used to disable turbo) and been able to play Skyrim for 4 hours straight....

So seems solved..?

nope thats loud enough and it always comes whenever i do something on windows or launch applications or random.
But i hear some click sounds from my laptop inside... it might be the fan or hard disk or usb port and its again random.

so wats ur gpu driver version now??

It happened to my speaker also, i was playing music for 30 mins ( volume=40% ) also connected my sub woofer. and then suddenly in middle of song the speaker gave a burst sound and the song suddenly continued playing in very low volume. after couple of secs i immediately closed the music player and restarted the song in a while and it seemed fine to me. I hvn't noticed much difference after this but probably the burst sound came from my right speaker.

U need the cpu to be in turbo mode. Else overheat as it is forced to underperform.

i'm not alone after all hope they can somehow fix this probs which i think is unlikely..

Do u recommend to play games with turbo boost? and u mean that without turbo mode it causes over heat or what...
i disabled turbo boost by putting 99% in max cpu power settings... and the temps are good. When i had boost it used to go uptop 2.9 ghz and my temps were 10 C more than what i get now...

Same as before 290.53 beta

Only change I made since 1st post was to remove throttlestop, since then I've had no overheating issues. Doesn't make sense to me, but at least it's a good result.

I played Skyrim for 4 hours straight with these settings:

NVIDIA 3D:
Ambient Occlusion - Off
AF - 8x
AA Gamma - Off
AA - Application Controlled
AA Transparency - Off
CUDA - All
Max pre-frames - 3
Multi-Display - Single display performance mode
Power management - Prefer max performance
Texture filtering - Anisotropic Sample optimisation - off
Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias - clamp
Texture filtering - Quality - Quality
Texture filtering - Trilinear - Off
Threaded optimization - on
Vertical sync - Force off

Skyrim:
AA & AF off (since forced by Nvidia control panel)
Resolution 1920x1080 (hdmi output to 27" led monitor)
All settings high except shadows (medium), full view distance, reflect everything, FXAA on

Mods:
Skyboost
Skyrim HD 2K textures
Realistic Lighting
Realistic Water Textures
Realistic Lightning
Real Ice
Skyrim Performance Plus (Pine Needles, Rainfall, Snow, Aspen Leaves)
Better Females
Better Males
Enhanced Night Skyrim
Coverwomen
Calientes Female Body Mod (CBBE)

I get 30+ fps minimum

CPU/GPU running as stock with performance power setting in control panel.

I installed throttlestop yesterday (only had the laptop two days) but I was on an earlier BIOS. I didn't twig, but since updating the BIOS to 218, I started to get heat issues.

So seems for me at least that throttlestop and 218 BIOS are not good combo.

Try update the latest audio driver

The throttlestop might limit the cpu's capability

This post has been edited by Savor_Savvy: Jan 24 2012, 10:04 PM