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Screen blacks out under VISTA
One of my buds went ahead and got himself a new system to run VISTA,
similar to mine. He's got an ATI Radeon 1950 graphics card and says that every so often while playing the "extras" poker game and sometimes while in his web browser, his screen goes BLACK for a few seconds and then comes back. Connections are tight, he sez. Any ideas? |
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Screen blacks out under VISTA
/Harry Krause/ said:
One of my buds went ahead and got himself a new system to run VISTA, similar to mine. He's got an ATI Radeon 1950 graphics card and says that every so often while playing the "extras" poker game and sometimes while in his web browser, his screen goes BLACK for a few seconds and then comes back. That can be a sign that Vista has encountered a program or feature that is non-compliant with the Aero interface. The screen goes to black when switching to the standard display, or back to Aero. However, a warning is also flashed. |
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Screen blacks out under VISTA
dev wrote:
/Harry Krause/ said: One of my buds went ahead and got himself a new system to run VISTA, similar to mine. He's got an ATI Radeon 1950 graphics card and says that every so often while playing the "extras" poker game and sometimes while in his web browser, his screen goes BLACK for a few seconds and then comes back. That can be a sign that Vista has encountered a program or feature that is non-compliant with the Aero interface. The screen goes to black when switching to the standard display, or back to Aero. However, a warning is also flashed. Hmmm. I'll pass that along. He didn't mention any warning. |
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Screen blacks out under VISTA
/Harry Krause/ said:
dev wrote: /Harry Krause/ said: One of my buds went ahead and got himself a new system to run VISTA, similar to mine. He's got an ATI Radeon 1950 graphics card and says that every so often while playing the "extras" poker game and sometimes while in his web browser, his screen goes BLACK for a few seconds and then comes back. That can be a sign that Vista has encountered a program or feature that is non-compliant with the Aero interface. The screen goes to black when switching to the standard display, or back to Aero. However, a warning is also flashed. Hmmm. I'll pass that along. He didn't mention any warning. At times no warning appears, per a test I just made. |
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Screen blacks out under VISTA
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:09:40 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote: One of my buds went ahead and got himself a new system to run VISTA, similar to mine. He's got an ATI Radeon 1950 graphics card and says that every so often while playing the "extras" poker game and sometimes while in his web browser, his screen goes BLACK for a few seconds and then comes back. Connections are tight, he sez. Any ideas? My Nvidia 5200FX does this. It does this ?randomly? with the same set of applications running over time (now then opening new windows). The Black lasts about 5 seconds. Aero enabled. Vista RC2 5744 x32 1.5G ram |
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Screen blacks out under VISTA
Steve Urbach wrote:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:09:40 -0400, Harry Krause wrote: One of my buds went ahead and got himself a new system to run VISTA, similar to mine. He's got an ATI Radeon 1950 graphics card and says that every so often while playing the "extras" poker game and sometimes while in his web browser, his screen goes BLACK for a few seconds and then comes back. Connections are tight, he sez. Any ideas? My Nvidia 5200FX does this. It does this ?randomly? with the same set of applications running over time (now then opening new windows). The Black lasts about 5 seconds. Aero enabled. Vista RC2 5744 x32 1.5G ram I spoke to my buddy. He changed from AERO to plain old Windows, but it still happens for a couple of seconds, he says. |
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Screen blacks out under VISTA
i think it is the video driver as mine does it also
"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... One of my buds went ahead and got himself a new system to run VISTA, similar to mine. He's got an ATI Radeon 1950 graphics card and says that every so often while playing the "extras" poker game and sometimes while in his web browser, his screen goes BLACK for a few seconds and then comes back. Connections are tight, he sez. Any ideas? |
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Screen blacks out under VISTA
BigJim wrote:
i think it is the video driver as mine does it also "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... One of my buds went ahead and got himself a new system to run VISTA, similar to mine. He's got an ATI Radeon 1950 graphics card and says that every so often while playing the "extras" poker game and sometimes while in his web browser, his screen goes BLACK for a few seconds and then comes back. Connections are tight, he sez. Any ideas? We hope you are right. There's nothing he could find on the ATI site about this, though. |
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Screen blacks out under VISTA
"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... BigJim wrote: i think it is the video driver as mine does it also "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... One of my buds went ahead and got himself a new system to run VISTA, similar to mine. He's got an ATI Radeon 1950 graphics card and says that every so often while playing the "extras" poker game and sometimes while in his web browser, his screen goes BLACK for a few seconds and then comes back. Connections are tight, he sez. Any ideas? We hope you are right. There's nothing he could find on the ATI site about this, though. Video drivers are still an issue, my machine does that once in a while and a box pops up to say that "the Nvidia drivers have stopped responding", or something to that effect. Just ignore it, they'll get it right one of these days. -- Ray Rogers |