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    IFL90 graphics card problem?

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by Marz72, Oct 14, 2007.

  1. Marz72

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    Had my IFL90 for about a week now and I've updated all of the drivers and everything works fine except for games, mainly HL2 and the UT3 demo. After about 10-15 minutes of playing, the game will crash and a yellow caution triangle will come up in the bottom right corner. I've tried about 5 different video card drivers so I don't think there is a problem there. I'm running vista with 2gb memory and the 8600gt video card. I'm not an expert so I have no idea what could be going on unless it's an overheating problem. If anyone could help me out it would be greatly appreciated.
     
    Marz72, Oct 14, 2007
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    masterbw Notebook Evangelist

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    What warning text was displayed from that yellow caution triangle?
    Can you set the mouse arrow over it and see what it shows?
     
    masterbw, Oct 15, 2007
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    When I mouse over it nothing pops up. I can't click on it either.
     
    Marz72, Oct 15, 2007
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    i'm getting the same thing, but the actual error message says that the display driver stopped responding. i tried updating the display driver to 163.75, but vista said it wasn't signed after if finished installing and wouldn't let it run.
     
    hao12, Oct 15, 2007
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    masterbw, Oct 16, 2007
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    do they have that driver for 64 bit vista?
     
    hao12, Oct 16, 2007
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    That might be the problem right there. 64-bit is notoriously fickle and a pain in the a** mainly because SP1 still hasn't been released.

    Did you get a 32 bit Vista disk from your reseller? Pop that in, clean install, and see if stuff works better. Did for me.
     
    thelazyone22, Oct 16, 2007
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    I doubt dropping to 32 bit would do any good whatsoever. There is apparently no general solution to this problem, even though its been occurring since... january 2007 at least? And it's plaguing people on both 32/64 bit, yet nvidia and microsoft have no solution for it.

    googling "nvlddmkm" is my reasoning
     
    hao12, Oct 16, 2007
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    I second that, with 64-bit you may have some problems, but use that disk for 32 if you have it. :)
     
    ahl395, Oct 16, 2007
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    Yeah, I'd stick with 32-bit since you don't have choice anyway.
    Runs 64-bit and emulate 32-bit? Forget it.
     
    masterbw, Oct 16, 2007
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