[Klug-general] Graphics card glitches

[Karl Buckland]

Yes, it sounds like a hardware issue if you have the same trouble in
Vista. Power supply, insufficient power connectors to the graphics
card, or simply a fault in the hardware of the graphics card or
motherboard maybe.

Karl

On 14 May 2010 10:33, Dan Attwood <danattwood at googlemail.com> wrote:
> have you tried to install the offical nvidia linux drivers from the nvidia
> website?
> also if it's doing the same thing in vista could if be that your power
> supply isn't up to the job?
>
>
>
> On 14 May 2010 10:15, Michael E. Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> G'mornin' all,
>>
>> Two or three years ago our illustrious colleague from Indie IT in
>> Birchington provided me with a bespoke sooper dooper desktop compooter
>> which has served me very well and still does. About a month ago the
>> graphics card blew (NVIDIA 256Mb - make unknown).
>>
>> I replaced it with a boxed inno3D 512 Mb card which claimed to be nvidia
>> authorised GeForce 9400. My version of Linux is PCLinuxOS 2010 (32-bit)
>> This is essentially Mandriva for dummies but improved by Synaptic. It
>> has recognised this card as NVIDIA 'cards not working with nv'.
>>
>> It seems to function reasonably well but occasionally the screen goes
>> black for about 3 seconds. It then recovers and is fine. This happens
>> more frequently with graphically intense programs like
>> GoogleEarth/Streetview or Stellarium etc. I wondered if this was a
>> driver problem. However, I also have a Vista 64-bit (sorry!) on another
>> partition and I have installed the windoze drivers which came with the
>> card. Same problem.
>>
>> Any ideas? Thanks be to all.
>> MikeR
>>
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