Is any one experiencing video issues since last batch of updates?

[Guest]

My Win XP Pro SP2 machine is experiencing video black outs, for about a week.
The screen freezes and the monitor goes blank. When I boot from a CD with
an alternate OS the system works fine. Is anyone else experiencing this? I
believe the video card is a GeForce FX5600. I originally thought I had a GPU
failure so I swapped out my video card with another card with no change in
operations. I formated the hdd and reloaded OS. I loaded Norton Internet
Security 2005 and updated the OS and NIS. The system started acting up again
after installing updates.

Any ideas?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Download and install the latest NVIDIA drivers:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_81.98.html

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Microsoft MVP
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| My Win XP Pro SP2 machine is experiencing video black outs, for about a week.
| The screen freezes and the monitor goes blank. When I boot from a CD with
| an alternate OS the system works fine. Is anyone else experiencing this? I
| believe the video card is a GeForce FX5600. I originally thought I had a GPU
| failure so I swapped out my video card with another card with no change in
| operations. I formated the hdd and reloaded OS. I loaded Norton Internet
| Security 2005 and updated the OS and NIS. The system started acting up again
| after installing updates.
|
| Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

Thank you Carey.... I will let you know if this suggestion works....

Sincerely,
Bob

 

[Guest]

I loaded the driver today...

After the driver was installed, I did a cold boot. There is no change in
the behavior of the video. When the screen must be redrawn, the screen goes
blank and the video takes a few seconds to resync and redraw the desktop. I
wonder if the Samsung driver that I installed from win update is causing the
problem... I will uninstall that driver and see what happens.... If that does
not work I will do a reload, as I did not load any software yet, except NIS
2005. Thanks for the original suggestion.