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    Win7 Locks Up!!!!!

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by 4saken, Jul 19, 2009.

  1. 4saken

    4saken Notebook Consultant

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    Every driver I have tested my windows freaking locks up, its so irritating. My screen starts to spazz and flicker around and then locks up. I have p-7805u and none of these drivers work :(.. Any ideas? Will these dox drivers work on vista? I miss my old drivers lol.
     
  2. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    I also have the P-7805u, now did you do an upgrade or a clean install? Also did you have issues from the start? also screen spazz's after what, desktop 3D apps etc?
     
  3. 4saken

    4saken Notebook Consultant

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    I did a clean install, wiped out my drivers, use driversweeper, and then reboot, then install drivers correctly. The screen spaz has stopped as I downloaded a new driver just now.. and it started when I first downloaded a driver for win7 until just now. so im praying it stops now.. lol
     
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    Blah the screen is still spazzing out when I play some videos and photos.. this blows lol.
     
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    shinji257 Notebook Deity

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    I don't have that issue at all. I used a combination of stock windows 7 drivers plus some vista drivers from the gateway site. I got my intel and nvidia drivers direct from the respective manufacturer sites but with intel they have no win7 ones yet so I did vista instead. Try the nvidia 186.03 drivers (not the dox ones).
     
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    t3rR0r Notebook Evangelist

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    I have not heard about an issue with W7 like this yet... but then again it is only RC... not the final product... have you noticed anything wierd before you went to W7? Sounds like a crapped out card to me...
     
  7. 4saken

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    This happened to me before on some drivers back on vista, then I upgraded to dox and it quit spazzing out. Ive tried 186.03 and it spazzed out everytime I go to a site with highprofile pictures.. I just clicked on ironmonkey.com and that flash thing just bricked out my gpu and it stopped working, my screen went black and then it recovered. When I watch videos on youtube my screen completely freezes and I have to hard shutdown, but I can play css source, and cod4 fine.. idk for how long though. I am on 186.34 right now.