I've had this notebook since about the time it came out and was on sale at officemax and its been fine up until the last couple of months.
Every so often, like maybe once every couple hours if its on that long, the display will go black for a minute and then it will come back and say that the display driver stopped working and that it had to recover it.
Now I tried reinstalling and it still seems to do it about the same time periods. I'm not sure if there is something that is occuring before this happens as it usually does not do it during watching a movie or whatever but I'm curious if it sounds like the graphics card may be going out.
Side Note: I did install some 3rd party drivers a while back that gave me some issues and I then removed them and reinstalled ones that I had on it before that worked and it might have started some time after that.
My other question is could drivers cause the graphics card to act up even after a reinstall of the complete OS. Like say cause permenant damage? Thanks in advance.
Every so often, like maybe once every couple hours if its on that long, the display will go black for a minute and then it will come back and say that the display driver stopped working and that it had to recover it.
Now I tried reinstalling and it still seems to do it about the same time periods. I'm not sure if there is something that is occuring before this happens as it usually does not do it during watching a movie or whatever but I'm curious if it sounds like the graphics card may be going out.
Side Note: I did install some 3rd party drivers a while back that gave me some issues and I then removed them and reinstalled ones that I had on it before that worked and it might have started some time after that.
My other question is could drivers cause the graphics card to act up even after a reinstall of the complete OS. Like say cause permenant damage? Thanks in advance.