al76it

Well, this forum thread seems to address the problem. Not really a practical solution, but for someone it has worked. I've got no time to test it now, but if you can, here is the link:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-HP-ProBook-Compaq-Slate/8710w-Win7-random-freezing-black-screens/td-p/2337373 [h30499.www3.hp.com]

SYmek
If it changes something, looks like the newest drivers working well are 195.xxx I haven't found anything usable above it.

Also, after some quick search it seems I don't have a much choice for a BIOS. The only found is the same as currently used (62.92.27.00.09)

Similar experience here: Quadro FX 3600M, and the most “stable” driver I've found is the 185.85.

I really think that it's a shame: high end laptop (HP 8710w), high end graphics card (Quadro FX 3600M 512 MB) and I'm locked to a 2009 driver.

Well, I also want to tell that the same issue affects Linux drivers, so I have to stick to open source Nouveau drivers when using Linux.

The best thing is that I can't even get a NVIDIA forum account to complain about this problem!!! And, of course, customer support is non-existent (like: “talk with your laptop manufacturer”). Same as always: the industry pushes hardware development to get faster and faster with model releases, so firmware, software and sometimes the hardware itself are always full of bugs or unstable as hell and you can't get a decent customer service to fix them.