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Video Driver Problems
Damien1 Thorne
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Join date: 26 Aug 2007
Posts: 4,877
08-05-2009 21:52
System specs:

HP Pavillion dv9700 Notebook
Intel Core2 Duo T5750 2GHz
Ram: 4GB
OS: Vista Home Premium 64
HD: 320GB
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600M GS
Driver: 7.15.11.7432

The last two days, when loading viewer, screen flashes then goes black. I get a message that video driver has stopped and recovered, but viewer is frozen and does not recover.

This is occuring on the standard viewer, snowglobe, emerald viewer, and nicholaz viewer.
They will not load far enough to clear cache through the preferences menu, so I also tried uninstalling all viewers, deleting the sl app data files and reinstalling the standard viewer.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
SuezanneC Baskerville
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Join date: 22 Dec 2003
Posts: 14,229
08-05-2009 22:26
Make sure there's no dust in the fans, vents, etc. and that the fans are spinning freely.

You might try uninstalling the video driver and reinstalling the same video driver.

You might try a system restore.
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Vanessa Sakai
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Join date: 21 Oct 2006
Posts: 103
08-06-2009 07:20
It also might be your vidio card going bad too.