Re: Windows locked up when sitting idle

"Menno Hershberger" <mhersh22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns9648751825BE2butter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> This may be useful to someone. I built a computer with a barebones kit and
> used an NVIDIA TNT/TNT2 AGP graphics card. Windows found drivers for it
> and
> it seemed to work fine. Only problem was that if I left the computer on
> overnight or left it idle for any appreciable length of time, it would
> freeze up. In device manager the display adapter was listed as NVIDIA
> TNT/TNT2 (Microsoft Corporation). After experimenting with other remedies,
> I decided to go to the NVIDIA site and download the recommended driver for
> it. That cured the problem. It's been running for a week now and hasn't
> frozen up yet. Device Manager no longer has "(Microsoft Corporation)"
> appended to the device either....

The stock XP drivers should never be used, they're very much get the system
up and running on the bare bones, so the user can then install the latest
drivers from the hardware manufacturers.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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