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    ideapad Y550P Core i7 help?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by murmur, Dec 28, 2009.

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    I had several problems when I got this machine:

    I was getting an error message saying "Display Driver Stopped responding and recovered" "Display driver NVDIA windows kernel Mode driver, version 186.47 stopped responding and has successfully recovered. I think it doesn't show that error message after updating graphic card driver to the latest one. So no more of that hopefully. Also, when I was running games like wc3 and starcraft, the displaying area was only middle square of my screen. But after the driver update, it became a rectangle, using the whole screen to display. I wonder why that is.

    Secondly, when I'm playing multiplayer games such as SC and WC3 as I have mentioned above, it displays the drop screen several times and then I finally get dropped. It's not the connection problem b/c I have other comps that share same connection but those games run fine. I haven't tested with other games(especially with higher requirement games) but hopefully it's only for those blizzard games. Anyone having similar problem or know how to fix this problem? I first thought it was the Windows 7 problem so I ran in xp mode and running it as an administrator but still.. when I run those game in single player, there is no problem. Is it the graphic card? the OS? or something else?

    Also, can anyone recommend drivers and updates I should do to fix above problems and maximize the performance of this machine?
     
    murmur, Dec 28, 2009
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    rjbg84 Notebook Evangelist

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    rjbg84, Dec 28, 2009
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    murmur Newbie

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    I mentioned that I DL the graphic card driver to the latest one... but thx for the reply
     
    murmur, Dec 28, 2009
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    rjbg84 Notebook Evangelist

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    I understand, I actually recommended the first page because each driver benefits specific cases.
     
    rjbg84, Dec 30, 2009
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