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3d graphics (Aero...) cause random brief loss of video
Frustrated and stumped. I've been running windows 7 64 since beta, bought the upgrade and installed it on a new system. ECS black GF 8200a AMD athlon 4x 620 with 4 G memory. Problem is at random times, sometimes very frequent, sometimes after 20 or 30 minutes my monitor blacks out for about 3 seconds. If I disable Aero the problem goes away. I discovered it when I was using a rotating wallpaper, every time the scene changed the monitor would black out. Also happens if I use PC Pitstop and it checks the 3d capability of my video card. Don't do any gaming or much that uses 3d, but want theo option if I do.
I originally used the Nvidea driver from their site, but reverted to the older driver on the ECS website thinking that was the problem. Did not solve it. Windows update installed the latest driver the other day and the problem persists. Currently I'm using 8.16.11.9107 from 9/27/09
I need to stop irritating problem, help!