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Geek Culture / Need a bit of advice: Video Card Problem

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Gowmars
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Posted: 29th Sep 2007 18:49 Edited at: 29th Sep 2007 18:51
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So one day when watching a movie on my laptop, the screen just went black. I could still hear the audio the screen just blacked out on me. I rebooted and it seems as though windows boots up but the screen it self is just back.

I am able to boot into safe mode and when I do I can see the screen just fine. It's just when I boot into windows normally it goes black.

I formatted my drive and reinstalled windows, because I had planned to soon anyway but same problem. But in doing so I have discovered what the problem is.

My video card driver. I can see the windows screen perfect in normal mode, until I install the driver, then the screen goes black. It loads just fine in safe mode because in safe mode it is not loading up the vid card driver. So I have to boot into safe mode and uninstall the driver in order to boot back into normal mode and see.

I'm hoping this can some how be fixed without it turning out to be my video card itself, and having to send it in and get replaced. >.<

any ideas?

its a GeForce 7800

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Jess T
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Posted: 29th Sep 2007 18:54
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Have you googled for the problem? It may be common with that particular version of the driver and card.

Tried a newer (or older) version of the driver?

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Gowmars
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Posted: 29th Sep 2007 19:05
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Yes I have searched for this problem. But every result is about a bug that causes this in Vista. I am running XP, and the problem seems to no be pertaining to that. When It first happened, it was running the same driver I had been using for months. The driver I am currently trying to install that also makes this happen is the newest driver I got off of nvidia's website. Before that I had went to dell's website which is what i have Inspiron E1705 and D/l the drivers specifically for my hardware and it still did it.

So yeah I'm hoping maybe someone may have an idea. Id hate to have to get a new card in it. If i send it off I'll be with out if for a while. and I need it for work. Not to mention for my CCNA that I am studying for the test is in a month.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 00:22
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Try an older version of a driver or get them from a different site (e.i. the manufacturers website) but the fact that it just quite for no reason makes me think its a hardware problem rather than a software.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 02:39
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Unfortunatly, it does sound like a hardware problem.
If you can, get one of those benchmarking programs off the net (you know, the ones that are in games, etc), and see if it'll complete successfully on the card without the drivers installed.

It's an odd problem, so you may have to wait till after you don't rely on it to send it off to be fixed.

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Keo C
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Posted: 30th Sep 2007 19:57
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I think GatorHex made a benchmarking software.

Uhhhhhhh.... I forgot
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Posted: 1st Oct 2007 17:55 Edited at: 1st Oct 2007 17:58
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Make sure you have the latest Direct X 9.0c (has a date after it) and latest graphics card drivers.

If you get a new driver with and old directX or visa versa all sorts of wierd crud can happen!

Oh and a black screen on a laptop can be that you have put it into projector mode by accident. There is normaly a D-Sub monitor connection on laptops for plugging in a projector or external monitor. It normaly has three modes

Laptop LCD on Projector off
Laptop LCD off Projector on <-- i think you are here
Laptop LCD on Projector on

Normaly you change it by holding a "Fn" key and pressing another key labled "CRT/LCD" at the same time.

Hope that helps

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bitJericho
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Posted: 1st Oct 2007 18:03 Edited at: 1st Oct 2007 18:03
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Dangit I hate laptops, they always throw that kinda crazy stuff in there. I get questions all the time about wifi too, because there's a switch on the laptop that turns it on and off, and people don't realize it.

I bet ya you just nailed the issue there gator:/


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Posted: 1st Oct 2007 18:12
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If you like to confuse people press Alt Gr + down arrow. hehehe

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