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    P7805u artifacts/freezing

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by worstplayer66, May 21, 2009.

  1. worstplayer66

    worstplayer66 Newbie

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    I have a refurbished p7805u with the 1920x1200 screen and I have issues with it freezing and giving me slight, static like artifacts. It typically happens when I am scrolling down a page quickly on Internet Explorer or Firefox. It also seems to be associated with dark colors.

    I also have problems sometimes when streaming videos in full screen. I will get artifacts then a black screen and the audio will continue. I can hit escape to go back to the windowed mode, but if I try to put it in full screen again it does the same thing.

    I have had no problems with any games crashing and performance when gaming is excellent. I have tried many different drivers and nothing seems to help. My current drivers are DOX 185.68. Any ideas?
     
    worstplayer66, May 21, 2009
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  2. Boomer1979

    Boomer1979 Notebook Guru

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    I have the same problem with almost any driver I use. The only ones that havent messed me up are the stock Nvidia driver from the Gatway website for the 78xx series, and DOX 182.05.
     
    Boomer1979, May 22, 2009
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    Boomer1979 Notebook Guru

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    Bumping in the hope there is a way to get around this that does not require sending it back to Gateway for them to do nothing.
     
    Boomer1979, May 23, 2009
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  4. Kamin_Majere

    Kamin_Majere =][= Ordo Hereticus

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    If these drivers fixed the issue for you, why are you considering it to be a problem still? Are the issues still coming up even with the two drivers that work for you?
     
    Kamin_Majere, May 23, 2009
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  5. Boomer1979

    Boomer1979 Notebook Guru

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    No the 2 work fine no problem, would just be nice to be able to update them is all.
     
    Boomer1979, May 23, 2009
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    Ah ok that makes sense. :p

    Alot of people seem to be having odd nvidia faults in their vid cards. I would just wait for newer drivers and test them as they come out for perfect compatibility.

    You might not always have the newest driver, but stability is a great thing. I've only been able to use about 4 drivers (not counting stock 169 drivers) since i've had my 6860... most just werent stable. I was stuck with the 172.65 drivers FOREVER until this last update and the 180.70 driver was perfectly stable for me. In a month or two i'll make my rounds again testing all of the new stuff and seeing which gives a preformance boost for equal or greater stability.
     
    Kamin_Majere, May 23, 2009
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  7. Boomer1979

    Boomer1979 Notebook Guru

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    Heh, guess Ill have to settle down then and not be so eager to jump to the latest driver. I did see a post that worstplayer66 responded to about reseating the monitor cable, might give that a shot, see if it makes any difference. If not I will just wait a while and see what drivers come out.
     
    Boomer1979, May 23, 2009
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  8. worstplayer66

    worstplayer66 Newbie

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    Alright, I installed DOX 182.05 drivers a few days ago and it's been running great with no freezing, artifacting, or stuttering *knock on wood*. It seems weird that this is the only driver thus far that hasn't given me problems, but i'm just glad to have a stable system now. Thanks Boomer.
     
    worstplayer66, May 28, 2009
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  9. iaTa

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    The 185 series have been causing all sorts of screen corruption issues. Definitely stay away for now - v182.72 are my favourites at the moment.
     
    iaTa, May 28, 2009
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  10. Boomer1979

    Boomer1979 Notebook Guru

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    No problem ;)
     
    Boomer1979, May 29, 2009
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  11. ZP=WIN

    ZP=WIN Notebook Consultant

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    im glad you made a thread on this. I had the same problem and it was at its worst today to. installed dox and has been fine since.
     
    ZP=WIN, May 29, 2009
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  12. andros_forever

    andros_forever Notebook Deity

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    I am currently using 185.85 and I do randomly get artifacts maibe once or twice a day... Not too much of a big deal they usually last only 3 to 10 seconds. The 182.xx did not have this problem, but I had worse performance on my games. Also whenever I would hit GPU temperatures above 70 degrees the drivers would fail and restart. Now I can get up to 78 without any problems.
     
    andros_forever, May 30, 2009
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