freezes and other odd bugs.

marbanasin · 21 Jan 2010

okay, system is restored, back to a ridiculously fuzzy display.

Jonathan_King · 21 Jan 2010

Thanks for taking over for me while I ate dinner, Rich.

Now try updating your graphics card drivers, and don't change anything else.

Your goal is to gradually reinstall everything, observing the results of each change. That is the way to determine the culprit.

marbanasin · 21 Jan 2010

okay will do. The question is how do I prompt a problem?

Jonathan_King · 21 Jan 2010

marbanasin said:

okay will do. The question is how do I prompt a problem?

Huh?

What do you mean?

marbanasin · 21 Jan 2010

well in order to test if something isn't working. My system seemed to be working, and then all of a sudden it would freeze, normally after idling. Also my task bar at the bottom would occasionally disappear. The point is, it could take a while to see that a driver or software is the culprit.

Jonathan_King · 21 Jan 2010

I see. Well, you can create a Restore Point before changing something. If it happens again, you can better diagnose it.

marbanasin · 21 Jan 2010

okay. Well I think one of the culprits is either the fingerprint scanner software or youcam, my webcam software. for whatever reason HP's software doesn't seem to support 7. Quickplay would be my next suspect but I never really tested it prior to installing the other two.

Jonathan_King · 21 Jan 2010

Good luck! I would be interested in learning the results.

richc46 · 21 Jan 2010

Jonathan_King said:

Thanks for taking over for me while I ate dinner, Rich.

Now try updating your graphics card drivers, and don't change anything else.

Your goal is to gradually reinstall everything, observing the results of each change. That is the way to determine the culprit.

No, thank you. Usually I can only help one; now I was able to help two people.

marbanasin · 21 Jan 2010

okay guys, graphics card driver just finished downloading, I'll install it now and try to get the results back to you two after I slowly get everything else up. thanks so much.