Sudden Black Out

[Guest won]

I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 with GeForce 4 440 Go 64Mb, which was upgraded from GeForce 2.

About a couple days ago, I noticed a sudden black out of the LCD Screen. It came back to normal about a few seconds later, but this effect became more and more frequent and sometimes never comes back. Then I had to force it to turn off.

If I turn it on again without resting, I see some stripes on the Dell Logo and boot with black out screen. If I rest it for some time, a few minutes to hours, it boot on properly. After I use it sometimes, then I see the black out again.

I installed the StarStorm 53.03 driver. I noticed the performance got much faster and the number of black out event reduced, but I still see it sometimes.

Would it be a problem of hardware?

It makes me scared since I'm afraid if i might see a black out one day and it never comes back.

[aye29]

Could be a heat issue since you say that it retuns to normal after you turn it off and leave it for a while but thats just a guess.

[Guest won]

I think that way too. One thing I wonder is that time pattern is pretty irregular. Sometimes it blacks out within 30 minutes and now I'm using it more than two hours. I might have to back up all the important data.

[Almighty1]

Make sure the cable from the LCD is seated securely on the video card.

[mobilenvidia]

Try the above first, failiing this try editing the INF.

Look of a section called '[nv_tweaks]' (in my modded INFs)

Under here add the following line:

HKR,, PushBufferMemorySpace, %REG_DWORD%, 3

Reinstall driver and see how you go.

This line fixed my blackouts on my Machine, but it hasn't happened since 4x.xx.

Give it a try.

Pieter.