Clevo W860CU / GTX 285M Freeze Problem

anybody here experience lock-ups/freezes with the nvidia 260.89 whql drivers when playing youtube (flash) videos or just simply surfing the net?

I just reformatted my laptop, installed all the latest drivers including 260.89 and when I played 2 youtube videos it froze and I had to force restart. I tried using different drivers from 186.81 to 258.69 and still experience the same issue. When the 260.89 was released last week, I was under the impression that it will fix the problem but it still did not. Can this be possibly because the of the new implement hardware acceleration of Adobe Flash Player?

Many people here report the same issues but a couple of then report also that they don't have that issue.

Can anyone confirm this? Thanks.

 

heh, i installed the new flash on my notebook and have the same issue.. i blame flash..

 

try the 260.99 http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/528792-nvidia-notebook-drivers-whql-260-99-a.html

 

I got that after a flash update.

Edit: I found disabling hardware acceleration in the flash helps a bit.

 

So this could be possibly indicate purely a flash problem? Why can't Adobe keep things straight? This has been happening for quite some time now.

 

i would think so.. i am getting lots of crashes/freezes. system restore/backtrack install

 

yep, definitely happening to me after flash update
meng

 

i'm too lazy to fix it on my hackintosh.. so i am very limited on the websites i can visit.. like this forum.. and kotaku.. heh

 

Hmm. Is this a hard fix for Adobe? Is it happening ONLY everytime you play flash videos?

 

Do anyone experience a freeze while surfing the net without even playing Flash videos? Although the flash videos are in another tab and they finished playing a couple of minutes back before the freeze.

 

yah. it happens to me like that. system restore time.

 

I don't think system restore will fix this problem. It happened to me after reformatting and installing all the latest drivers.

 

i just installed an older 10.x version - everythings fine now

 

Did you ever encounter a freeze without even playing flash (it's just in the background)? A few hours ago I also experienced a black screen that suddenly appeared and I had to force reboot.

 

I updated the 260 driver from nVidia and I initially had problems with my external monitor. So I tried to install the driver again, except this time I selected the option to remove the existing driver and settings and do a clean install of the driver. This seemed to have solved the problem, but I don't think I have any problems with playing flash videos. Hope this might help.

 

You don't have any freezing problems?

 

What version did you install and do you have a link to it?