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| 663739 | 2008-04-29 00:07:00 | Hi every one Just under three and a half years ago I got a Toshiba Satellite M 30 Notebook running Win XP Pro with SP 2 and 512 meg of RAM. At the beginning of this year it came to the end of its lease and I was given the opportunity of purchasing it, which I did. After all, it had been well looked after right? For weeks later the screen display started acting up – eg When turned on from cold it will sometimes (very rarely) start normally. Other alternatives are as follows: The Toshiba splash screen will sometimes be followed by a black screen covered by neatly spaced white exclamation marks. It will some times get thru this but by the time it gets to the login screen the dialog boxes are scrambled in a variety of ways. Out of desperation I turned on MS error reporting and got back a message from them that the video driver was caught in an infinite loop. The two “solutions” suggested were to disable hardware acceleration via system admin’s device manager, which I did, and/or update the display driver (see next bit) The graphics card is a NVidea GEForceFX Go5200 32M/64M running driver version 5.7.6.4 dated 15/4/2004. During the course of my Internet research to solve the problem (let’s leave aside for the moment the possibility that the integrated video card is actually stuffed) I turned up the following: It seems there is a “known issue” (don't you just love that phrase?!) with this video “card” involving the “nv4_disp” driver getting stuck in the aforementioned infinite loop. I hit heaps of references to this on the net with an assortment of fixes, some of which I tried (after creating restore points of course), and although one of them “stabilised” things somewhat there was still a problem. I downloaded some supposedly later version drivers from various sources but when I ran them I invariably got the message “The NVIDEA Setup Program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. A couple of my “hits” on the Internet suggested that most driver updates were for PC’s only and wouldn’t work on Notebook/Laptops. So, I’m at the end of a long hard journey with no solution in sight. It seems to me that if you have had the persistence to read this far you might just have the technical savvy and to crack this for me. Otherwise I’ll have to shell out for a new machine, which is a pity ‘ cos the screen on this M 30 (yes, it does work sometimes – usually after a few false starts is really clear with good colour saturation. Batten down the hatches for the rain!! |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 663740 | 2008-04-29 01:56:00 | Just under three and a half years ago I got a Toshiba Satellite M 30 Notebook running Win XP Pro with SP 2 and 512 meg of RAM. At the beginning of this year it came to the end of its lease and I was given the opportunity of purchasing it, which I did. (let’s leave aside for the moment the possibility that the integrated video card is actually stuffed) Ooops. Bad move. No lets say it IS stuffed. Its stuffed. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 663741 | 2008-04-29 02:40:00 | The Toshiba splash screen will sometimes be followed by a black screen covered by neatly spaced white exclamation marks. It will some times get thru this but by the time it gets to the login screen the dialog boxes are scrambled in a variety of ways. Out of desperation I turned on MS error reporting and got back a message from them that the video driver was caught in an infinite loop. The two “solutions” suggested were to disable hardware acceleration via system admin’s device manager, which I did, and/or update the display driver (see next bit) I agree with pctek. Onboard video is stuffed. It's not a driver/windows problem as you are getting problems before it even loads windows. |
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