Re: PC becomes completely unresponsive
From: Will Steele (will_at_excom.net.nz)
Date: 03/13/05
- Next message: Michael L. D'Angelo: "Re: Recording TV to DVD for use in stand-alone DVD players"
- Previous message: Sam Staber: "Re: Recording TV to DVD for use in stand-alone DVD players"
- In reply to: Will Steele: "Re: PC becomes completely unresponsive"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ]
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:53:18 +1300
Finally found a working driver,
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxpmce_53.04
Hasn't frozen yet, even when I do the same things I used to do that made it
froze. Hopefully it lasts!
Will
"Will Steele" <will@excom.net.nz> wrote in message
news:%23VGsLmAKFHA.3928@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Oh yeah, forgot to mention that - I also have dual display.
>
> I thought it might have just been the graphics card freezing, but no, the
> whole PC becomes unresponsive, I was sending a file to someone over MSN,
> and even that stopped working... I'm going to try some more drivers!
>
>
> Will
>
> "tenquillico" <tenquillico@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6A5D3D85-95FF-406A-B636-86648697688F@microsoft.com...
>> hey..... i actually just experienced that problem for the first time -
>> however, my problem occured after i upgraded to the latest nvidia driver
>> 71.84. but - my problem is a little more complex.... i actually have a
>> dual
>> display setup, and from what i can tell it only freezes on my secondary
>> display - when i used the older mce drivers 66.93, i had no issues at
>> all.
>> i did notice however, that my computer appeared to have frozen - but it
>> actually wasnt. if you can manage to get a song to play as soon as you
>> enter
>> mce, and just wait for it to "freeze", i noticed that the song kinda
>> played
>> every few seconds and stopped...... the num lock and caps lock were
>> completely frozen tho - just press ctrl-alt-del, windows key, alt-f4 etc,
>> and
>> wait about 2-5mins...... you never know, your pc may unlock like mine did
>>
>> "Will Steele" wrote:
>>
>>> I have just upgraded to an FX5200. The PC runs fine, but when I go into
>>> Media Center and try to do some things (it depends what it feels like
>>> crashing on at the time - sometimes its Settings, sometimes its My
>>> Videos,
>>> sometimes its TV) - the entire PC just locks up and becomes
>>> unresponsive -
>>> requiring me to restart.
>>>
>>> I have tried the driver that came with the card, and also the nvidia MCE
>>> drivers. Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
- Next message: Michael L. D'Angelo: "Re: Recording TV to DVD for use in stand-alone DVD players"
- Previous message: Sam Staber: "Re: Recording TV to DVD for use in stand-alone DVD players"
- In reply to: Will Steele: "Re: PC becomes completely unresponsive"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ]
Relevant Pages
|
