Do you know which update caused the error?
I'd start by downloading and installing new drivers from Nvidia.
I'm pretty much sold on Nvidia because they work, and they make driver
downloads easy with the "Unified driver architecture".
You can download the drivers and report a Vista bug here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/vistaqualityassurance.html
Lisa Schnepf wrote:
I put a Nividia GEForce 6300 graphics card in my new computer after I bought
it. It was working fine until the other day when I downloaded the Windows
Critical Updates. After that, clicking on pictures caused my monitor to go
to sleep for a few seconds, turn back on with a message saying "Nividia
drivers not responding or working properly". A few seconds later, it would
say, "Drivers are working properly" and this would go on and off while I am
looking at pictures. I uninstalled the critical update and looked at some
pictures and it seemed ok. I reinstalled the update, figuring a critical
update is necessary. The problem happened again. I searched all night last
night for some kind of information on this problem and I can't come up with
anything. I tried to play a game (Insaniquarium) for a few minutes to see
what happens. It worked fine. So I clicked on the pictures again, and again
the display would go on and off. As soon as you close out of any picture
folder, this stops. I had a video of The White Stripes. I clicked on it and
all of a sudden I get the blue screen saying a major problem happened with
windows or something to that effect. It didn't stay up long enough to read
the whole thing. It basically said that it had to shut down windows to
protect itself from a major problem. The computer restarted and asked me how
I would like to go into windows - in safe mode or start up normally. I told
it to start up normally. Then I shut it down because I didn't know what else
to do. Today I asked my husband to take out the graphics card and I
uninstalled the drivers. I am really disappointed. Now I have to go out and
get another graphics card, and I don't know what to look for. My graphics
card was supposedly Windows Vista compatible. I have Windows Vista drivers
for it, and it was working fine since I put it in, until the critical
update. Also, after I got the blue screen , all of my restore points were
lost in system restore, so I couldn't do a system restore.
Have any of you had this problem? Any graphics card recommendations? My
computer is an HP Media Center PC m7760n - just bought it in March - came
with Vista already installed, 2 gigs of Ram, 2 - 250 gig hard drives.
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