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    6831FX intermitent screen distortion at vista screen logon

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by timisoarakill, Feb 22, 2008.

  1. timisoarakill

    timisoarakill Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have sometime a distorted vista logon screen , the screen become half black somehow ( corrupted~distorted ) , not always but sometime , i use the original nvidia driver and nothing is overclocked , is this ok or i should start to be worried an exchange this at best buy ?
    Thank you for your time and help . :)
     
    timisoarakill, Feb 22, 2008
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  2. Acorn

    Acorn Notebook Evangelist

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    It happens on all my laptops. So i assume its fine, i have quite a few of different branded laptops.
     
    Acorn, Feb 22, 2008
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    leehblanc Notebook Enthusiast

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    It's happened to me two or three times, and I've had my 6831 for a month. It also happened on my old 8708 when I first upgraded to Vista (I corrected that with a driver upgrade)

    I'm not using stock drivers, so whether or not it's a driver issue, it's affecting more than just one version.

    In short, I don't think it's worth worrying about unless it starts to happen while your in Windows and using the PC
     
    leehblanc, Feb 23, 2008
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    flamarc Notebook Consultant

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    I actually have not experienced this issue as of yet on my gateway. But I wiped my 6831 clean right after I got it and updated my video drivers to the latest that I was able to find on laptop video 2 go.Now I did experience this on my Acer laptop and I had to download an update to my video driver as it was also causing some other intermitent problems with some of my other programs and games.
     
    flamarc, Feb 23, 2008
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