Re: dual-core laptop locks-up IEXPLORE.EXE

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I'm pretty sure it's because this box has the latest Matrox laptop graphics
chip and the driver it shipped with is listed on the Matrox site as not
supporting this chip. There's a beta driver on the Matrox site that does
support this chip, but I'm more afraid of installing a beta graphics driver
than I am of browser lockup.

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS with 256MB GDDR3 discrete graphics memory

ForceWare Release 90
Version: 91.28
Release Date: May 23, 2006
BETA Driver

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_winxp_2k_32bit_91.28.html



"Eric" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have recently set up 2 Intel® CoreT Duo Processor T2300 PCs with Windows
XP Pro. They were HP Pavillion, not Toshiba, but I don't think the dual
core processor is your problem. My users have not reported any problems so
far. These also came with a different graphics chip but I'd be surprised
if that's your problem.

"John A Grandy" <johnagrandy-at-yahoo-dot-com> wrote in message
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Has anyone recently purchased a Intel® CoreT Duo Processor (T2400 -- but
don't think ghz is the issue) notebook and noticed that a high % of the
time (~ 25% +) IEXPLORE.EXE becomes locked-up on launch ?

Somewhat less frequently, IEXPLORE.EXE can lockup on redirects to urls of
other sites, or urls within the same site.

I've never noticed anywhere near this level of lockup of IEXPLORE.EXE on
XP Pro on other boxes, desktop or laptop ...

I have a Toshiba Satellite-P105-S921.

I flashed the most recent BIOS, but it was already on there. Any other
layers I could possibly update ? My gut feeling is Intel botched
whatever layer allocates processing to the multi cores.

All Windows Updates have been applied to this box.

Did Toshiba dump a dog on us ?

Outside shot : the high-end graphics chip is responsible : NVIDIA®
GeForce® Go 7900 GS




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