Nvidia GeForece 8600m GS help?

Hi, ive reinstalled vista 32bit onto my HP Pavilion DV9700 laptop,
the problem im having is that the display is pixelated ive downloaded drivers from HP and Nvidia and installed them to no affect, ive tried changing the resolution but still the problem persists!

Im using Vlc media player to play my Avi. files, ive searched for hours without any solutions!

Plz any ideas well appreciated!

 

Is the screen messed up all the way from boot up or only once in windows? Depending on the symptoms it could either be your drivers or bios or your GPU might be failing. Try booting in safe mode.

How old is your laptop and has it been pushed hard for gaming? The 86xxM series is known for its failures

 

its 4 months old, the screen is perfect right up untill i put the video file on and the when i put it up in full screen all i get is a blurry picture, the files worked fine before i reinstalled vista, no im not much of a pc gamer apart from C&C Red Alert, id prefer games on ps3 and xbox, even youtube is all messed up? ive tried everything i know, but there must be something im missing ive done all the neccessary updates?

 

I would try completely uninstalling VLC media player. Then download the latest version once more and re-install afresh. Looks like the codecs have become corrupted.

Also do you have the latest nvidia official driver 178.48 from their website. Remember to completely wipe all traces of the previous driver before installing.

 

ok will try that,

these are my stats, i dont really know much about them but im slightly worried is that System Video Memory states 0MB?

Is this normal?



NVIDIA System Information report created on: 04/17/2009 21:00:36
System name: GAZZA-PC

[Display]
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz (2394 MHz)
Operating System: Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate, 32-bit (Service Pack 1)
DirectX version: 10.0
GPU processor: GeForce 8600M GS
Driver version: 181.20
Stream processors: 16
Core clock: 500 MHz
Shader clock: 1000 MHz
Memory clock: 400 MHz (800 MHz data rate)
Memory interface: 128-bit
Total available graphics memory: 1791 MB
Dedicated video memory: 512 MB
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 1279 MB
Video BIOS version: 60.86.4F.00.22
IRQ: 16
Bus: PCI Express x16

[Components]

nvCplUIR.dll 2.2.275.00 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvCpl.cpl 2.2.350.00 NVIDIA Control Panel Applet
nvExpBar.dll 1.5.930.00 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvCplUI.exe 2.2.350.00 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvViTvSR.dll 7.15.11.6369 NVIDIA Video and TV Server
nvViTvS.dll 7.15.11.8120 NVIDIA Video and TV Server
nvDispSR.dll 7.15.11.6369 NVIDIA Display Server
NVMCTRAY.DLL 7.15.11.8120 NVIDIA Media Center Library
nvDispS.dll 7.15.11.8120 NVIDIA Display Server
NVCPL.DLL 7.15.11.8120 NVIDIA Compatible Windows Vista Display driver, Version 181.20
PhysX 909.00.10 NVIDIA PhysX
nvGameSR.dll 7.15.11.6369 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
nvGameS.dll 7.15.11.8120 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

 

Don't worry about that. If you take a glance you shall see you have 512mb of dedicated video memory.

Good luck with fixing your problem

 

Thanks, tryed uninstalling VLC but sadly didnt work, thanks for you help, ill just keep trying1

 

When did the problems begin to occur? Maybe you could perform a system restore if you have a restore point. Tis an odd problem. You could try another player media player such as DivX.

 

when i reinstalled vista they occurred, i have downloaded all the drivers and have no yellow exclamation marks in device manager so i cannot understand where im going wrong.

 

I had that same problem before. What about resintalling but with a different version of VLC. Either latest or an old one.

 

tryed that, to no avail, also the drivers that are on hp and state that they are the current version but when i go to nvidia theres a totally different driver? ive tried them both but its really starting to annoy the hell out of me as i use my laptop to connect to my TV via HDMI and watch alot of web based TV, i even paid $29 for driver detective to see where i was going wrong but it just shows that my drivers are all up to date!

 

Hey, try drivers from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com.

I have an 8600M GS card as well and I'm currently using Dox's 182.05 driver. It is working out pretty well for me!

 

thanks arktrance going to try it and will let you know the results, If not im just going to format the HDD and start again! LoL