Quite irritating that Dell won't seem to sort the problem for you, or at
least offer some assistance. I'm also running a D820 with a quadro NVS 120M.
There is a workaround to the issue though, Live Search gave me a few trails
to follow and they lead to a modded inf driver that allows the NVidia Unified
Driver to install on the system.
Have a look at:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...howtopic=12185
They seem to have done a rather decent job, and everything seems to be
workig in Vista. Been running this driver on my D820 for the last week. At
very least this is a solution that works until DELL gets their act together.
Hope this helps.
Chad.
"Mercestes" wrote:
> Unfortunately I encountered the grahpics freeze again. The situation seems
> improved in that the graphics freeze doesn't happen as often, but it still
> occurs in almost the exact same manner.
>
> Unfortunately Dell has given me the "reimage your laptop with Windows XP"
> middle finger, so driver/hardware support from them is not forthcoming.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> "Mercestes" wrote:
>
> > I updated my bios as you suggested and it appears at this time that it
> > resolved my problem. Part of the bios update triggered a Hardware driver
> > update for my PCIe system port. I would have never guessed to update my bios
> > to fix a video issue.
> >
> > Thanks a ton. If it starts freezing again I'll update but my current
> > tests seem very promising.
> >
> > "Rick Rogers" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > It's highly unlikely that those three components are using the same IRQ.
> > > Have you tried checking msinfo32 for conflicts or sharing issues? The choppy
> > > movement more likely means that something is typing up cpu cycles, and that
> > > could be a driver issue.
> > >
> > > It could also be that your system BIOS requires an update.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Best of Luck,
> > >
> > > Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> > > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> > > Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> > >
> > > "Mercestes" <Mercestes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:FCCCE25B-62C8-4E97-88D9-71011FFA1C00@microsoft.com...
> > > > I just installed the MSDN Windows Vista Ultimate. Thus far it has been
> > > > an
> > > > awe inspiring experience.
> > > >
> > > > However, I am having some graphics issues. The Graphics card seems to
> > > > chain IRQ's into oblivion basically reducing my system into an unusable
> > > > status for several minutes. Usually it recovers but sometimes it doesn't.
> > > > I
> > > > can tell it's IRQ related because the mouse still moves but is very
> > > > choppy,
> > > > and my sound card plays the last frame of music repetitively and slowly
> > > > iterates through it's frames until the screen becomes responsive again,
> > > > then
> > > > windows informs me that my graphics card stopped responding.
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately, my graphics card does not seem to be detected by any of
> > > > the
> > > > Nvidia Unified Drivers. It seems Dell has a proprietary graphics chipset
> > > > that Nvidia doesn't recognize, and my graphics driver revision is way out
> > > > of
> > > > sync with Nvidia's. So I cannot update via Nvidia. It is listed as a
> > > > driver
> > > > provided by Nividia though. The curren version is 7.14.10.9686. Trying
> > > > to
> > > > manually update tells me that my Driver is already "up to date" and won't
> > > > let
> > > > me install it.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a possible fix for this or a fix in the near future? Any help
> > > > or
> > > > insight you can provide is much appreciated.
> > >
> > >
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