Weird things with my laptop
Posted: 2011-06-22 08:02am
I've a Toshiba Satellite A500-18Q with Windows 7 Home Premium (and Ubuntu 10.10, but it does nothing to see with this) and a Nvidia GT-230M graphic card.
At first, the card worked flawlessly. All games I installed (Silent Hunter III -with mods- & IV, both Neverwinter Nights with their expansions, etc) went as expected. One day, however, both SHIII and SHIV ceased to work. When booting the first one, you'd get a black screen -sound worked OK well-; the second one gave a registry error and didn't boot.
I installed the latest Nvidia drivers and, not only it did not repaired anything but NWN2 appeared also garbled. Formatted and reinstalled everything for unrelated reasons and everything worked properly until SHIII started to give the same black screen problems (haven't tested SHIV). Again, I installed the latest Nvidia drivers and again everything the black screen (however, NWN2 so far I've tested it works 100% OK).
Do you know what could be happening -if it's a problem of software or the graphic card itself-?. Strangely, it just affects those two Ubisoft games and not NWN2. Alas, I remember before updating the graphic driver to have often the screen going black for less than a second a returning to normal -without playing anything-, one time with a Windows error about the Nvidia driver failing. After the update, I had that at least the blackout one time.
At first, the card worked flawlessly. All games I installed (Silent Hunter III -with mods- & IV, both Neverwinter Nights with their expansions, etc) went as expected. One day, however, both SHIII and SHIV ceased to work. When booting the first one, you'd get a black screen -sound worked OK well-; the second one gave a registry error and didn't boot.
I installed the latest Nvidia drivers and, not only it did not repaired anything but NWN2 appeared also garbled. Formatted and reinstalled everything for unrelated reasons and everything worked properly until SHIII started to give the same black screen problems (haven't tested SHIV). Again, I installed the latest Nvidia drivers and again everything the black screen (however, NWN2 so far I've tested it works 100% OK).
Do you know what could be happening -if it's a problem of software or the graphic card itself-?. Strangely, it just affects those two Ubisoft games and not NWN2. Alas, I remember before updating the graphic driver to have often the screen going black for less than a second a returning to normal -without playing anything-, one time with a Windows error about the Nvidia driver failing. After the update, I had that at least the blackout one time.