BleepingComputer.com: random black screen while gaming on my laptop

hello bleeping computer world. im sure you have had many cases of black screens popping up while gaming. i know the issue might have to do with my laptop heating up, but i just want to double check as this has only started happening recently on my new vaio vgn-fw490J laptop.

im running on vista home premium sp1 with a radeon hd 4650 graphics card and have installed/run speed fan on automatic fan speed as some forums have suggested, but my black problem still hasnt gone away.

it has only happened while i played HoN (Heroes of Newerth), a pretty graphically demanding game, but again im puzzled because i played the game perfectly fine for two~three weeks, then one day i suddenly get a black screen, then another, and then another... etc.

if you guys can help, that would be awesome and greatly appreciated!

thanks :]

It could be driver related, but it is probably a heat issue.

i checked my device manager. no problems there =T

edit: after another blackscreen i got a message "windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown" here are the details:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 100000ea
BCP1: FFFFFA8007FCAA60
BCP2: 0000000000000000
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_0_6001
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini091209-01.dmp
C:\Users\Darrick Shin\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-65224-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\Darrick Shin\AppData\Local\Temp\WER260.tmp.version.txt

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This post has been edited by darrickshin: 12 September 2009 - 02:38 AM