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Nvidia Geforce problems

jo.praag — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:28:28 GMT

Hi there,
Hope someone can please help me. When i start my computer the screenimage is distorted. Sometimes a white screen with stripes. After I restart, i can use start in safe mode and use system restore to go back to a previous date and only then the screen is normal.(sometimes after several attempts) I tried putting the complete system back to factory settings without any success. I thought that something was wrong with the video driver ( Vaio VGN-S5M/S) with geforce Go 6400 and tried downloading new drivers/update without any success.
Thanks in advance.
(Excuse my poor english)

Re: Nvidia Geforce problems

Blencogo — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:17:01 GMT

Hi jo.praag and welcome to Club Vaio.

It sounds like it is either the Video Driver or a hardware fault with the Video Card itself.

Have you managed to install a new nVidia driver? If so what version?

Re: Nvidia Geforce problems

jo.praag — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:21:23 GMT

Thanks for your quick reply,
I couldn't find drivers for the geforce 6400 go on th NVidia site. So i went to the Sony site. The video driver I downloaded was a zip file. The site instructions said to unzip the file and just follow the instructions. But after unzipping i just got 30 files without any exe. file or instructions to follow. So i Just copied them to the windows/drivers/video folder.( of course) this didn't help . So i went to this site called Guruof 3d and downloaded and executed tne NVidia forceware driver package. This helped a bit. After starting windows the screen image starts blurred and then setttles to 32 bit but low resolution. I can manually change this to a good resolution and use my vaio normally.
Obviously I would welcome a permanent solution. Can you please instruct me how to get and instal the latest driver or how to check to see if this is a hardware problem ?

Re: Nvidia Geforce problems

Blencogo — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:36:49 GMT

Hi,

Try the latest driver first.

In order to install the latest drivers on a "Go" mobile nVidia card, you will need to use a modified .INF file. See the full instructions below: -

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

I would go for a recent (13/07/07) WHQL certified version like this one: -

Version 162.50/XP/32-bit

If this new driver does not work then you will need to look at the hardware.

Re: Nvidia Geforce problems

jo.praag — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:11:45 GMT

Once again : thanks a million