I have a Inspiron 8100, Dells support has been useless on this issue.
EQUIPEMENT - I have the Nvidia Gforce2 Go, I have all the latest drivers and service packs from Microsoft, Dell, and Nvidia. I have tried all the drivers and the same problem persists.
PROBLEM - Video freezes when using IE or Netscape, but happens more often in IE. If I use IE all day it will happen usually every 20 to 30 minutes, sometimes shorter, sometimes longer. Netscape may happen once a day, if that. I am not a huge netscape fan but it is my only way to be very productive at this current time.
THE QUICK FIX - When the video card locks up, it doesn't totally lock up, you can inch your mouse around and things will still open very slowly, but to get past this point I can hit Fn / F8 which toggles the CRT/LCD function on the laptop, this causes the screen to flach then BAM, I am fine until next time.
This is a way for me to get by the problem but as you can imagine it is getting very annoying.
** This problem will happen more often on a website that uses more JAVA than others. Also have rebuilt the machine, and installed only bare bones drivers and problem remains, hardware issue? Or just Nvidia XP issue, there has been plenty in the past.
Any ideas, let me know.
EQUIPEMENT - I have the Nvidia Gforce2 Go, I have all the latest drivers and service packs from Microsoft, Dell, and Nvidia. I have tried all the drivers and the same problem persists.
PROBLEM - Video freezes when using IE or Netscape, but happens more often in IE. If I use IE all day it will happen usually every 20 to 30 minutes, sometimes shorter, sometimes longer. Netscape may happen once a day, if that. I am not a huge netscape fan but it is my only way to be very productive at this current time.
THE QUICK FIX - When the video card locks up, it doesn't totally lock up, you can inch your mouse around and things will still open very slowly, but to get past this point I can hit Fn / F8 which toggles the CRT/LCD function on the laptop, this causes the screen to flach then BAM, I am fine until next time.
This is a way for me to get by the problem but as you can imagine it is getting very annoying.
** This problem will happen more often on a website that uses more JAVA than others. Also have rebuilt the machine, and installed only bare bones drivers and problem remains, hardware issue? Or just Nvidia XP issue, there has been plenty in the past.
Any ideas, let me know.