[hunvagy]

Might be not much of a help, but I found this googling around:

Recently I had some windows 7 updates and I noticed one was for my graphics card so I included it. It said it was from nvidia as well. After installing the updates, I had to restart my pc. After doing so I was noticing flashing lines on my screen and then the pc would periodically freeze up. Only way to recover from it was to hold in the power button to shut it down. I originally thought it was an extra hard drive I had connected as there were previous issues with it but I removed it and it was doing the same thing. I decided to go the extra mile and format my pc thinking there was really something wrong. After getting the same update (I installed them one at a time from Windows update) for the graphics card, it started doing it again. I know it is the driver, I then uninstalled the driver (now using a crappy generic one that does not support the resolution I need which is 1600x900) and downloaded the latest from the nvidia site and same results.

Is there something going on with the latest driver that would cause this that is already a known issue? Since uninstalling the driver, I have had no issues what so ever. Only bad thing is that now the screen looks blown up in my face since I can not use the recommended resolution for my monitor. On a side note, I do not use my pc for gaming so I am not using up memory or resources for stuff like that. My pc is for web/app development, web browsing and email.

Any info or help would be greatly appreciated!


if its an agp 5200, anything past 175.xx will cause these issues.