Recent content by Taiguy

Not the only one - and what gets me is that there was no fix found

The picture goes blank AFTER turning the TV back on.

Damn. Same symptom even with the HDMI cable.

TV is at 1920 x 1080. 22" monitor is at 1680 x 1050. I've been using this setup for at least 3 years now. Both are using DVI cables. One DVI cable has a DVI to HDMI adapter at one end to interface with the TV. They are extended/spanned displays. The only thing that has changed in the...

Amazon has been awesome (as always) and shipped me a replacement the next day. I put it in and same issue. When I turn my primary display (the panasonic tv) off, no change in display configuration. As soon as I power it back on however, it changes to a single monitor setup and labels the TV as...

Ran windows update and there were no new drivers for the TV. It shows up right now as "Panasonic TV" with the correct resolution, refresh rate, and bit depth. Nothing has changed configuration wise except replacing the 470 with the 670. I tried switching the DVI ports on the back, but it...

Just picked up a Galaxy GTX670 GC to replace my 470. After installing it and updating the drivers everything looks and plays great. I'm running two displays off of DVI. The first is a Panasonic HDTV, the other is an older 22' BenQ LCD. If I turn my monitor for a while and then come back, Windows...

fyi. IBM sold their PC division (including the Thinkpad brand) to lenovo back in 2004;)

best guess for right now. the problem disappeared when I switched shells (physical laptop, minus the hard drive). this is still with the VT-d switch disabled in the BIOS. I remembered that it didn't come that way stock so I rebooted into the BIOS to turn it on. After another reboot into...

new theory. it came back. but only after enabled VT-d in the BIOS (I use lots of VMs for work). Disabling the VT-d switch in the BIOS gets rid of the problem. guess I didn't need to swap out my hardware.

my guess would be that it's memory related and it was corrupting the screen buffer. a screen capture would accurately grab whatever was in the buffer.

They are screen grabs. Why wouldn't that make sense?

Yep. exact same model (lenovo R400). just swapped the drive out and everything was running fine.

Confirmed that it was a hardware issue. Just got my notebook replaced (kept the hard drive) and everything is running peachy keen now.:cool:

Ran prime95 for an hour. Impressed at how well the heatsink works in this laptop. It never topped over 48C. Occasional artifact around a window border, but it immediately corrected itself. Ran 3DMark06 and despite it chugging along at 3 fps - it looked pretty crisp. stopping the dwm and...