Shame on your Nvidia !

[FrostyTheBeerman]

So I just bought a brand new computer system, a new computer and new monitor.

Yesterday I right clicked on a .avi movie file, and the screen flickers ! .... I thought this was strange but went on with my day. I then deleted a .mpg file, and when I right clicked on the file the screen flickered once again. Ok, this was getting annoying.

Thought entered my mind..... ok pack up the whole computer, including the monitor and take it back to the comptuer store which is an hour away. Not a fun prospect.

I then decided to Google the problem and came across this site. I found the answer to the problem -- Nvidia adds some crazy instruction to the Windows XP software to look for a TV .....

I found the answer here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1665203&enterthread=y

I took the advice of the poster and went into the RegEdit program and removed the lines I needed and this fixed the problem.

! - Shame on your Nvidia !

If a company does this, why oh why is this NOT put on their webpage as one of the problems that can happen ? ... isn't it morally right of them to have an alert on their website saying that they do this ?

I cannot believe the hours I would have wasted if I had taken the computer back to the computer store... and chances are the guys may not have found the problem.

I just find it very disappointing that Nvidia would do something like this to people, it's just unbelievable.

Thank God for the existance of this forum.

 

[Genx87]

Never heard of this issue and never witnessed anything like it in all the years of using Nvidia cards.

 

[FrostyTheBeerman]

Perhaps it's happening with newer mobos.

do a Google search with the following keywords:

"monitor flickers when I right click on a movie file"

you will find numerous results.

The first page has several results and *all* are with systems with Nvidia cards.

Nvidia should at least address the issue, u can be sure they know it
exists.

Anyway live and learn, at least it was a simple fix, but if I was not computer savy enough to find this forum, I probabally would have never found a solution.

 

[M0RPH]

Originally posted by: Genx87
Never heard of this issue and never witnessed anything like it in all the years of using Nvidia cards.

Well that settles it. It must not exist then. These guys are imagining it.

 

[SpeedTester]

He was stating he has never seen this happen, I have not experienced this either. There is no need to be a prick about. You post contributed nothing here so you should keep your mouth shut.

I tried to get my 3 pc's to glitch like posted but couldnt get them to do anything funny. I'm running Asus MB's and 6600gts, 6800gt sli. Maybe its hit or miss or a driver issue.

Originally posted by: M0RPH

Originally posted by: Genx87
Never heard of this issue and never witnessed anything like it in all the years of using Nvidia cards.

Well that settles it. It must not exist then. These guys are imagining it.

 

[M0RPH]

Originally posted by: SpeedTester
He was stating he has never seen this happen, I have not experienced this either. There is no need to be a prick about. You post contributed nothing here so you should keep your mouth shut.

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That name calling is gonna get you banned, tough guy.

 

[Fardringle]

My 'fast' PC has an ATI card in it, but my secondary PC has a Geforce 4 MX440 in it and I have noticed exactly the same thing happening on that PC ever since I installed the 77.83 (I think) drivers. I haven't bothered rolling back to older drivers yet to see if it fixes the problem since it's only a minor annoyance and I have lots of big problems to fix that I actually get paid to fix.

I may have to try it tonight to see what happens...


edit: I just noticed the OP posted a registry fix. I'll try that first.

 

[xtknight]

Shell extension problem. I've never had this one in particular, though I did have one where My Documents would crash every time it loaded an avi file.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: FrostyTheBeerman
So I just bought a brand new computer system, a new computer and new monitor.

Yesterday I right clicked on a .avi movie file, and the screen flickers ! .... I thought this was strange but went on with my day. I then deleted a .mpg file, and when I right clicked on the file the screen flickered once again. Ok, this was getting annoying.

Thought entered my mind..... ok pack up the whole computer, including the monitor and take it back to the comptuer store which is an hour away. Not a fun prospect.

I then decided to Google the problem and came across this site. I found the answer to the problem -- Nvidia adds some crazy instruction to the Windows XP software to look for a TV .....

I found the answer here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1665203&enterthread=y

I took the advice of the poster and went into the RegEdit program and removed the lines I needed and this fixed the problem.

! - Shame on your Nvidia !

If a company does this, why oh why is this NOT put on their webpage as one of the problems that can happen ? ... isn't it morally right of them to have an alert on their website saying that they do this ?

I cannot believe the hours I would have wasted if I had taken the computer back to the computer store... and chances are the guys may not have found the problem.

I just find it very disappointing that Nvidia would do something like this to people, it's just unbelievable.

Thank God for the existance of this forum.

I appreciate the fact that you have/had a problem, but you're a little over the top with the drama.
Glad you got it fixed. AT has a wealth of info.

 

[Continuity28]

I get this problem constantly.

AMD Athlon X2 4800+ (also had it with 4000+ and 3.0Ghz P4)
DFI LANPARTY UT SLI-DR (also had it with MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum)
nVidia 6800GT x2
Winodws XP SP2 (also had it with SP1 and no SP)

nVidia Drivers 77.77 (had it with every driver revision I used so far)
nForce drivers 6.66 (had it with every driver revision I used so far)

The only real thing I can do is stop the preview of video clips in the shell, and even that doesn't stop it 100% of the time.

One of the quirks you notice from nVidia I guess, never had this with ATI.

 

[Continuity28]

That link and registry change fixed it. Thanks guys.