Vista going nuts
Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour before? It’s happened to me on my Lenovo Vista box a couple of times in the last few weeks. Out of the blue, the screen just starts flickering like mad. The only way I have found to restore the box to normal behaviour is to either log off and back on, or a full re-boot.
December 17th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Maybe you need to upgrade?
December 17th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Or maybe it’s time to buy an iMac or a MacPro
December 17th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
While we are all offering helpful solutions :), how about installing Ubuntu?
December 17th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
oh you guys are all so F U N N Y!
Pirillo suggested I checked my video card so I’m running driver detective over the box.
December 17th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Hmm seems not only your PC’s going wacky Cam, just now I’ve been getting intermittent errors back from your server getting to thepodcastnetwork.com - not sure if anyone else is seeing it.
In any case poked around your site and Google a bit and I reckon this topic might offer some help. Given the nature of the errors, etc I’m assuming you’re running wordpress on Apache 2.0.
December 17th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Yeah…upgrade to XP.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Cool effects!!! I’ve never seen this before. I would start from removing the graphics card drivers and running in the default mode. Then check if I can download general drivers for the graphical chipset I have on the card from the chipset manufacturer and not the final vendor. There may also be an IRQ error, meaning f.e. the graphics card is fighting the tv card over the same port/address etc. Once, I had to remove everything from the motherboard and be left with the graph. card just to find out what that causing the errors.
I am really happy now to be running windows under vmware under mac
Good luck!
Raf
December 18th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Ben - bugger, thought I’d fixed that problem last week! Ugh, I needs me an IT team.
December 18th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
have you left an adobe AIR app running for a long time ??
December 18th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
I think I see the problem. You were playing Van Halen and Vista objected :-p
December 18th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Cam, that is EXACTLY what’s been happening to mine!!!! YayI’m not alone. It happens after I’ve left the PC on for a long while and not been using it. Methinks Nick Hodge is right (bless him), I’m sure it’s Adobe Air now because it’s only been doing it for a few weeks…
So Nick, how do we fix it!?!?!? except for stop using snitter???
December 18th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Nick, yeah could have been Snitter running. Has that been reported?