Graphics Card Problem with Rendering

HolyShadowLink · April 3, 2015

Recently, two months ago, I bought an Asus GL551JM Gaming Laptop. Since I run a little YouTube channel, I decided to get Sony Vegas Pro 13 to render my videos in for posting. I used someones render settings that I found on YouTube, and it looked pretty good. I started rendering the video, but my PC "ran into a problem". I got the "restarting for you" message and it said on the bottom of the screen: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE or something like that. I thought it was pretty weird, so I ended up not rendering or posting that video. I thought that the length of the video was too long for my graphics card (nvidia geforce gtx 860m) to handle so I just dismissed it on my fault for trying to render a long video. But later on, I recorded a pretty short video, about 2 minutes or so, and tried to render it with Sony Vegas again. I thought this would be no problem because the video was short. But, I got the error again, and this time, I suspected something is wrong with my graphics card. Now, whenever I start up my laptop and play a game running on my graphics card, I have to reinstall the driver so the game I am playing is not limited to 30fps.

Concluding this, I just wanted to know the answers to a few questions:

Is my graphics card broken? If so, is there any way to fix it?

Is this error because I tried to render for too long?

Were my render settings too strong for my card to handle?

Not that good with tech stuff, so it would be very helpful if I got the answers and fixed it.

Thanks!

Jamdog · April 3, 2015

It's still under warranty so I suppose you could just milk Asus for a new one but the problem is probably that the GPU isn't powerful and enough. I seriously doubt that you caused any kind of permanent damage from rendering a video.

See if there is a way to disable GPU accelerated rendering. It will take all year but that's better than nothing.