nVidia freeze on GeForce 5500

> Rich--
>
> I haven't used that particular card. But in talking with people who test
> and tech support a lot of higher end GeForce cards in getting the best
> driver for my own, the information is that for many of these cards, there
> are several driver choices. For mine, there are about five right now
> although that could have changed in the last week (as you know changes
> happen rapidly with these drivers and Vista). I was given a
> recommendation to use a driver that wasn't the newest. I've since tried
> every driver available on Vista including the newest beta driver, and they
> have all been fine. But some of these drivers "freeze/lockup" and others
> don't. You might want to give the tech support number for whomever makes
> your card a call--they are often 24 hours X 7 days and just excellent.
> Many of them test these cards with some of the newest machines and they
> also have collected data on which drivers for your particular card have
> ben reported as problemmatic.
>
> There also are the Nvidia forums and the excellent gamer and hardware site
> forums as well.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Wake up America. You have a sociopathic, psychotic moron playing with the
> lives of thousands of your fellow Americans. Whatcha gonna do--put yo head
> in the sand? If it was your Vista booting, or your One Care working,
> you'd
> be expending a helluva lot more effort wouldn't you--come on--you know
> that's right unless you're from predominantly small town ethnic miinority
> America that has their sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, and grandmothers
> and grandfathers actually being redeployed at stake:
>
> This is how it is. Typical American sheep: Uh Uh Uh isn't civil war
> don't
> it have to have Lincoln and Grant and cannons and a Confederate flag in it
> and like uniforms? Ah gotta go shoppin' for some bling and a duo core.
>
> Frank Rich Has He Started Talking to the Walls? Sunday December 3, 2006
> New
> York Times
>
> IT turns out we've been reading the wrong Bob Woodward book to understand
> what's going on with President Bush. The text we should be consulting
> instead is "The Final Days," the Woodward-Bernstein account of Richard
> Nixon
> talking to the portraits on the White House walls while Watergate
> demolished
> his presidency. As Mr. Bush has ricocheted from Vietnam to Latvia to
> Jordan
> in recent weeks, we've witnessed the troubling behavior of a president who
> isn't merely in a state of denial but is completely untethered from
> reality.
> It's not that he can't handle the truth about Iraq. He doesn't know what
> the
> truth is.
>
> The most startling example was his insistence that Al Qaeda is primarily
> responsible for the country's spiraling violence. Only a week before Mr.
> Bush said this, the American military spokesman on the scene, Maj. Gen.
> William Caldwell, called Al Qaeda "extremely disorganized" in Iraq, adding
> that "I would question at this point how effective they are at all at the
> state level." Military intelligence estimates that Al Qaeda makes up only
> 2
> percent to 3 percent of the enemy forces in Iraq, according to Jim
> Miklaszewski of NBC News. The bottom line: America has a commander in
> chief
> who can't even identify some 97 percent to 98 percent of the combatants in
> a
> war that has gone on longer than our involvement in World War II.
>
> But that's not the half of it. Mr. Bush relentlessly refers to Iraq's
> "unity
> government" though it is not unified and can only nominally govern. (In
> Henry Kissinger's accurate recent formulation, Iraq is not even a nation
> "in
> the historic sense.") After that pseudo-government's prime minister, Nuri
> al-Maliki, brushed him off in Amman, the president nonetheless declared
> him
> "the right guy for Iraq" the morning after. This came only a day after The
> Times's revelation of a secret memo by Mr. Bush's national security
> adviser,
> Stephen Hadley, judging Mr. Maliki either "ignorant of what is going on"
> in
> his own country or disingenuous or insufficiently capable of running a
> government. Not that it matters what Mr. Hadley writes when his boss is
> impervious to facts.
>
> In truth the president is so out of it he wasn't even meeting with the
> right
> guy. No one doubts that the most powerful political leader in Iraq is the
> anti-American, pro-Hezbollah cleric Moktada al-Sadr, without whom Mr.
> Maliki
> would be on the scrap heap next to his short-lived predecessors, Ayad
> Allawi
> and Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Mr. Sadr's militia is far more powerful than the
> official Iraqi army that we've been helping to "stand up" at hideous cost
> all these years. If we're not going to take him out, as John McCain
> proposed
> this month, we might as well deal with him directly rather than with Mr.
> Maliki, his puppet. But our president shows few signs of recognizing Mr.
> Sadr's existence.
>
> In his classic study, "The Great War and Modern Memory," Paul Fussell
> wrote
> of how World War I shattered and remade literature, for only a new
> language
> of irony could convey the trauma and waste. Under the auspices of Mr.
> Bush,
> the Iraq war is having a comparable, if different, linguistic impact: the
> more he loses his hold on reality, the more language is severed from its
> meaning altogether.
>
> When the president persists in talking about staying until "the mission is
> complete" even though there is no definable military mission, let alone
> one
> that can be completed, he is indulging in pure absurdity. The same goes
> for
> his talk of "victory," another concept robbed of any definition when the
> prime minister we are trying to prop up is allied with Mr. Sadr, a man who
> wants Americans dead and has many scalps to prove it. The newest
> hollowed-out Bush word to mask the endgame in Iraq is "phase," as if the
> increasing violence were as transitional as the growing pains of a surly
> teenager. "Phase" is meant to drown out all the unsettling debate about
> two
> words the president doesn't want to hear, "civil war."
>
> When news organizations, politicians and bloggers had their own civil war
> about the proper usage of that designation last week, it was highly
> instructive - but about America, not Iraq. The intensity of the squabble
> showed the corrosive effect the president's subversion of language has had
> on our larger culture. Iraq arguably passed beyond civil war months ago
> into
> what might more accurately be termed ethnic cleansing or chaos. That we
> were
> fighting over "civil war" at this late date was a reminder that wittingly
> or
> not, we have all taken to following Mr. Bush's lead in retreating from
> English as we once knew it.
>
> It's been a familiar pattern for the news media, politicians and the
> public
> alike in the Bush era. It took us far too long to acknowledge that the
> "abuses" at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere might be more accurately called
> torture. And that the "manipulation" of prewar intelligence might be more
> accurately called lying. Next up is "pullback," the Iraq Study Group's
> reported euphemism to stave off the word "retreat" (if not retreat
> itself).
>
> In the case of "civil war," it fell to a morning television anchor, Matt
> Lauer, to officially bless the term before the "Today" show moved on to
> such
> regular fare as an update on the Olsen twins. That juxtaposition of Iraq
> and
> post-pubescent eroticism was only too accurate a gauge of how much the
> word
> "war" itself has been drained of its meaning in America after years of
> waging a war that required no shared sacrifice. Whatever you want to label
> what's happening in Iraq, it has never impeded our freedom to dote on the
> Olsen twins.
>
> I have not been one to buy into the arguments that Mr. Bush is stupid or
> is
> the sum of his "Bushisms" or is, as feverish Internet speculation
> periodically has it, secretly drinking again. I still don't. But I have
> believed he is a cynic - that he could always distinguish between truth
> and
> fiction even as he and Karl Rove sold us their fictions. That's why, when
> the president said that "absolutely, we're winning" in Iraq before the
> midterms, I just figured it was more of the same: another expedient lie to
> further his partisan political ends.
>
> But that election has come and gone, and Mr. Bush is more isolated from
> the
> real world than ever. That's scary. Neither he nor his party has anything
> to
> gain politically by pretending that Iraq is not in crisis. Yet Mr. Bush
> clings to his delusions with a near-rage - watch him seethe in his press
> conference with Mr. Maliki - that can't be explained away by sheer
> stubbornness or misguided principles or a pat psychological theory.
> Whatever
> the reason, he is slipping into the same zone as Woodrow Wilson did when
> refusing to face the rejection of the League of Nations, as a sleepless
> L.B.J. did when micromanaging bombing missions in Vietnam, as Ronald
> Reagan
> did when checking out during Iran-Contra. You can understand why Jim Webb,
> the Virginia senator-elect with a son in Iraq, was tempted to slug the
> president at a White House reception for newly elected members of
> Congress.
> Mr. Bush asked "How's your boy?" But when Mr. Webb replied, "I'd like to
> get
> them out of Iraq," the president refused to so much as acknowledge the
> subject. Maybe a timely slug would have woken him up.
>
> Or at least sounded an alarm. Some two years ago, I wrote that Iraq was
> Vietnam on speed, a quagmire for the MTV generation. Those jump cuts are
> accelerating now. The illusion that America can control events on the
> ground
> is just that: an illusion. As the list of theoretical silver bullets for
> Iraq grows longer (and more theoretical) by the day - special envoy,
> embedded military advisers, partition, outreach to Iran and Syria,
> Holbrooke, international conference, NATO - urgent decisions have to be
> made
> by a chief executive who is in touch with reality (or such is the minimal
> job description). Otherwise the events in Iraq will make the Decider's
> decisions for him, as indeed they are doing already.
>
> The joke, history may note, is that even as Mr. Bush deludes himself that
> he
> is bringing "democracy" to Iraq, he is flouting democracy at home.
> American
> voters could not have delivered a clearer mandate on the war than they did
> on Nov. 7, but apparently elections don't register at the White House
> unless
> the voters dip their fingers in purple ink. Mr. Bush seems to think that
> the
> only decision he had to make was replacing Donald Rumsfeld and the mission
> of changing course would be accomplished.
>
> Tell that to the Americans in Anbar Province. Back in August the chief of
> intelligence for the Marines filed a secret report - uncovered by Thomas
> Ricks of The Washington Post - concluding that American troops "are no
> longer capable of militarily defeating the insurgency in al-Anbar." That
> finding was confirmed in an intelligence update last month. Yet American
> troops are still being tossed into that maw, and at least 90 have been
> killed there since Labor Day, including five marines, ages 19 to 24,
> around
> Thanksgiving.
>
> Civil war? Sectarian violence? A phase? This much is certain: The dead in
> Iraq don't give a damn what we call it.
>
>
>
> "Rich Milburn [MVP]" <richdotmilburn@applebeesdot.com> wrote in message
> news:CDE31B3D-ADCE-457A-ADE2-32E4CF93466C@microsoft.com...
> Hey has anyone used a GeForce 5500 and seen it freeze up, and hours later
> (12-24) it "recovers?" Mine seems to lock up, it's done so on several
> builds and RTM, and 32 or 64 bit. I've used the in-box drivers and the
> beta nVidia drivers, but I haven't tried the ones that I think they just
> released (like 2 days ago, if that).
>
> Thanks
> Rich

> Haha, your political commentary is longer than your help. No, I'm not even
> about to read it. Try making it a little shorter Chad.
>
> "If it was your Vista booting, or your One Care working, you'd
> be expending a helluva lot more effort wouldn't you"
>
> Very good, I agree Typical American sheep. Oh! I just got shept!
>
> --
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> <mvpendorsementsforswag.net> wrote in message
> news:O3kIh10FHHA.3468@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>> Rich--
>>
>> I haven't used that particular card. But in talking with people who test
>> and tech support a lot of higher end GeForce cards in getting the best
>> driver for my own, the information is that for many of these cards, there
>> are several driver choices. For mine, there are about five right now
>> although that could have changed in the last week (as you know changes
>> happen rapidly with these drivers and Vista). I was given a
>> recommendation to use a driver that wasn't the newest. I've since tried
>> every driver available on Vista including the newest beta driver, and
>> they have all been fine. But some of these drivers "freeze/lockup" and
>> others don't. You might want to give the tech support number for
>> whomever makes your card a call--they are often 24 hours X 7 days and
>> just excellent. Many of them test these cards with some of the newest
>> machines and they also have collected data on which drivers for your
>> particular card have ben reported as problemmatic.
>>
>> There also are the Nvidia forums and the excellent gamer and hardware
>> site forums as well.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> Wake up America. You have a sociopathic, psychotic moron playing with
>> the
>> lives of thousands of your fellow Americans. Whatcha gonna do--put yo
>> head
>> in the sand? If it was your Vista booting, or your One Care working,
>> you'd
>> be expending a helluva lot more effort wouldn't you--come on--you know
>> that's right unless you're from predominantly small town ethnic miinority
>> America that has their sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, and
>> grandmothers
>> and grandfathers actually being redeployed at stake:
>>
>> This is how it is. Typical American sheep: Uh Uh Uh isn't civil war
>> don't
>> it have to have Lincoln and Grant and cannons and a Confederate flag in
>> it
>> and like uniforms? Ah gotta go shoppin' for some bling and a duo core.
>>
>> Frank Rich Has He Started Talking to the Walls? Sunday December 3, 2006
>> New
>> York Times
>>
>> IT turns out we've been reading the wrong Bob Woodward book to understand
>> what's going on with President Bush. The text we should be consulting
>> instead is "The Final Days," the Woodward-Bernstein account of Richard
>> Nixon
>> talking to the portraits on the White House walls while Watergate
>> demolished
>> his presidency. As Mr. Bush has ricocheted from Vietnam to Latvia to
>> Jordan
>> in recent weeks, we've witnessed the troubling behavior of a president
>> who
>> isn't merely in a state of denial but is completely untethered from
>> reality.
>> It's not that he can't handle the truth about Iraq. He doesn't know what
>> the
>> truth is.
>>
>> The most startling example was his insistence that Al Qaeda is primarily
>> responsible for the country's spiraling violence. Only a week before Mr.
>> Bush said this, the American military spokesman on the scene, Maj. Gen.
>> William Caldwell, called Al Qaeda "extremely disorganized" in Iraq,
>> adding
>> that "I would question at this point how effective they are at all at the
>> state level." Military intelligence estimates that Al Qaeda makes up only
>> 2
>> percent to 3 percent of the enemy forces in Iraq, according to Jim
>> Miklaszewski of NBC News. The bottom line: America has a commander in
>> chief
>> who can't even identify some 97 percent to 98 percent of the combatants
>> in a
>> war that has gone on longer than our involvement in World War II.
>>
>> But that's not the half of it. Mr. Bush relentlessly refers to Iraq's
>> "unity
>> government" though it is not unified and can only nominally govern. (In
>> Henry Kissinger's accurate recent formulation, Iraq is not even a nation
>> "in
>> the historic sense.") After that pseudo-government's prime minister, Nuri
>> al-Maliki, brushed him off in Amman, the president nonetheless declared
>> him
>> "the right guy for Iraq" the morning after. This came only a day after
>> The
>> Times's revelation of a secret memo by Mr. Bush's national security
>> adviser,
>> Stephen Hadley, judging Mr. Maliki either "ignorant of what is going on"
>> in
>> his own country or disingenuous or insufficiently capable of running a
>> government. Not that it matters what Mr. Hadley writes when his boss is
>> impervious to facts.
>>
>> In truth the president is so out of it he wasn't even meeting with the
>> right
>> guy. No one doubts that the most powerful political leader in Iraq is the
>> anti-American, pro-Hezbollah cleric Moktada al-Sadr, without whom Mr.
>> Maliki
>> would be on the scrap heap next to his short-lived predecessors, Ayad
>> Allawi
>> and Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Mr. Sadr's militia is far more powerful than the
>> official Iraqi army that we've been helping to "stand up" at hideous cost
>> all these years. If we're not going to take him out, as John McCain
>> proposed
>> this month, we might as well deal with him directly rather than with Mr.
>> Maliki, his puppet. But our president shows few signs of recognizing Mr.
>> Sadr's existence.
>>
>> In his classic study, "The Great War and Modern Memory," Paul Fussell
>> wrote
>> of how World War I shattered and remade literature, for only a new
>> language
>> of irony could convey the trauma and waste. Under the auspices of Mr.
>> Bush,
>> the Iraq war is having a comparable, if different, linguistic impact: the
>> more he loses his hold on reality, the more language is severed from its
>> meaning altogether.
>>
>> When the president persists in talking about staying until "the mission
>> is
>> complete" even though there is no definable military mission, let alone
>> one
>> that can be completed, he is indulging in pure absurdity. The same goes
>> for
>> his talk of "victory," another concept robbed of any definition when the
>> prime minister we are trying to prop up is allied with Mr. Sadr, a man
>> who
>> wants Americans dead and has many scalps to prove it. The newest
>> hollowed-out Bush word to mask the endgame in Iraq is "phase," as if the
>> increasing violence were as transitional as the growing pains of a surly
>> teenager. "Phase" is meant to drown out all the unsettling debate about
>> two
>> words the president doesn't want to hear, "civil war."
>>
>> When news organizations, politicians and bloggers had their own civil war
>> about the proper usage of that designation last week, it was highly
>> instructive - but about America, not Iraq. The intensity of the squabble
>> showed the corrosive effect the president's subversion of language has
>> had
>> on our larger culture. Iraq arguably passed beyond civil war months ago
>> into
>> what might more accurately be termed ethnic cleansing or chaos. That we
>> were
>> fighting over "civil war" at this late date was a reminder that wittingly
>> or
>> not, we have all taken to following Mr. Bush's lead in retreating from
>> English as we once knew it.
>>
>> It's been a familiar pattern for the news media, politicians and the
>> public
>> alike in the Bush era. It took us far too long to acknowledge that the
>> "abuses" at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere might be more accurately called
>> torture. And that the "manipulation" of prewar intelligence might be more
>> accurately called lying. Next up is "pullback," the Iraq Study Group's
>> reported euphemism to stave off the word "retreat" (if not retreat
>> itself).
>>
>> In the case of "civil war," it fell to a morning television anchor, Matt
>> Lauer, to officially bless the term before the "Today" show moved on to
>> such
>> regular fare as an update on the Olsen twins. That juxtaposition of Iraq
>> and
>> post-pubescent eroticism was only too accurate a gauge of how much the
>> word
>> "war" itself has been drained of its meaning in America after years of
>> waging a war that required no shared sacrifice. Whatever you want to
>> label
>> what's happening in Iraq, it has never impeded our freedom to dote on the
>> Olsen twins.
>>
>> I have not been one to buy into the arguments that Mr. Bush is stupid or
>> is
>> the sum of his "Bushisms" or is, as feverish Internet speculation
>> periodically has it, secretly drinking again. I still don't. But I have
>> believed he is a cynic - that he could always distinguish between truth
>> and
>> fiction even as he and Karl Rove sold us their fictions. That's why, when
>> the president said that "absolutely, we're winning" in Iraq before the
>> midterms, I just figured it was more of the same: another expedient lie
>> to
>> further his partisan political ends.
>>
>> But that election has come and gone, and Mr. Bush is more isolated from
>> the
>> real world than ever. That's scary. Neither he nor his party has anything
>> to
>> gain politically by pretending that Iraq is not in crisis. Yet Mr. Bush
>> clings to his delusions with a near-rage - watch him seethe in his press
>> conference with Mr. Maliki - that can't be explained away by sheer
>> stubbornness or misguided principles or a pat psychological theory.
>> Whatever
>> the reason, he is slipping into the same zone as Woodrow Wilson did when
>> refusing to face the rejection of the League of Nations, as a sleepless
>> L.B.J. did when micromanaging bombing missions in Vietnam, as Ronald
>> Reagan
>> did when checking out during Iran-Contra. You can understand why Jim
>> Webb,
>> the Virginia senator-elect with a son in Iraq, was tempted to slug the
>> president at a White House reception for newly elected members of
>> Congress.
>> Mr. Bush asked "How's your boy?" But when Mr. Webb replied, "I'd like to
>> get
>> them out of Iraq," the president refused to so much as acknowledge the
>> subject. Maybe a timely slug would have woken him up.
>>
>> Or at least sounded an alarm. Some two years ago, I wrote that Iraq was
>> Vietnam on speed, a quagmire for the MTV generation. Those jump cuts are
>> accelerating now. The illusion that America can control events on the
>> ground
>> is just that: an illusion. As the list of theoretical silver bullets for
>> Iraq grows longer (and more theoretical) by the day - special envoy,
>> embedded military advisers, partition, outreach to Iran and Syria,
>> Holbrooke, international conference, NATO - urgent decisions have to be
>> made
>> by a chief executive who is in touch with reality (or such is the minimal
>> job description). Otherwise the events in Iraq will make the Decider's
>> decisions for him, as indeed they are doing already.
>>
>> The joke, history may note, is that even as Mr. Bush deludes himself that
>> he
>> is bringing "democracy" to Iraq, he is flouting democracy at home.
>> American
>> voters could not have delivered a clearer mandate on the war than they
>> did
>> on Nov. 7, but apparently elections don't register at the White House
>> unless
>> the voters dip their fingers in purple ink. Mr. Bush seems to think that
>> the
>> only decision he had to make was replacing Donald Rumsfeld and the
>> mission
>> of changing course would be accomplished.
>>
>> Tell that to the Americans in Anbar Province. Back in August the chief of
>> intelligence for the Marines filed a secret report - uncovered by Thomas
>> Ricks of The Washington Post - concluding that American troops "are no
>> longer capable of militarily defeating the insurgency in al-Anbar." That
>> finding was confirmed in an intelligence update last month. Yet American
>> troops are still being tossed into that maw, and at least 90 have been
>> killed there since Labor Day, including five marines, ages 19 to 24,
>> around
>> Thanksgiving.
>>
>> Civil war? Sectarian violence? A phase? This much is certain: The dead in
>> Iraq don't give a damn what we call it.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Rich Milburn [MVP]" <richdotmilburn@applebeesdot.com> wrote in message
>> news:CDE31B3D-ADCE-457A-ADE2-32E4CF93466C@microsoft.com...
>> Hey has anyone used a GeForce 5500 and seen it freeze up, and hours later
>> (12-24) it "recovers?" Mine seems to lock up, it's done so on several
>> builds and RTM, and 32 or 64 bit. I've used the in-box drivers and the
>> beta nVidia drivers, but I haven't tried the ones that I think they just
>> released (like 2 days ago, if that).
>>
>> Thanks
>> Rich

>

> Rich--
>
> I haven't used that particular card. But in talking with people who
> test and tech support a lot of higher end GeForce cards in getting the
> best driver for my own, the information is that for many of these
> cards, there are several driver choices. For mine, there are about
> five right now although that could have changed in the last week (as
> you know changes happen rapidly with these drivers and Vista). I was
> given a recommendation to use a driver that wasn't the newest. I've
> since tried every driver available on Vista including the newest beta
> driver, and they have all been fine. But some of these drivers
> "freeze/lockup" and others don't. You might want to give the tech
> support number for whomever makes your card a call--they are often 24
> hours X 7 days and just excellent. Many of them test these cards with
> some of the newest machines and they also have collected data on which
> drivers for your particular card have ben reported as problemmatic.
>
> There also are the Nvidia forums and the excellent gamer and hardware
> site forums as well.
>
> Good luck,
>
>
> "Rich Milburn [MVP]" <richdotmilburn@applebeesdot.com> wrote in
> message
> news:CDE31B3D-ADCE-457A-ADE2-32E4CF93466C@microsoft.com...
> Hey has anyone used a GeForce 5500 and seen it freeze up, and hours
> later
> (12-24) it "recovers?" Mine seems to lock up, it's done so on several
> builds and RTM, and 32 or 64 bit. I've used the in-box drivers and
> the beta
> nVidia drivers, but I haven't tried the ones that I think they just
> released
> (like 2 days ago, if that).
> Thanks
> Rich

>
> thanks - I'll look into that. I've debated replacing the card, but if I
> did that, I'd want to get a PCI-E card. If I did that, I'd have to
> replace the motherboard (I got one with AGP to accomodate the free video
> card!). And if I did that, well a core duo sure would be tempting. But
> this Sempron 3100+ is actually pretty fast, and since I don't really do
> any gaming, it's fine for most of my purposes. So I'll try to get it to
> work.
> Rich
>
>
> MSFT Trades Swag to MVPs for Support, Defense, and Blind Allegiance"
> mvpendorsementsforswag.net, (aka Chad? wrote:
>

>> Rich--
>>
>> I haven't used that particular card. But in talking with people who
>> test and tech support a lot of higher end GeForce cards in getting the
>> best driver for my own, the information is that for many of these
>> cards, there are several driver choices. For mine, there are about
>> five right now although that could have changed in the last week (as
>> you know changes happen rapidly with these drivers and Vista). I was
>> given a recommendation to use a driver that wasn't the newest. I've
>> since tried every driver available on Vista including the newest beta
>> driver, and they have all been fine. But some of these drivers
>> "freeze/lockup" and others don't. You might want to give the tech
>> support number for whomever makes your card a call--they are often 24
>> hours X 7 days and just excellent. Many of them test these cards with
>> some of the newest machines and they also have collected data on which
>> drivers for your particular card have ben reported as problemmatic.
>>
>> There also are the Nvidia forums and the excellent gamer and hardware
>> site forums as well.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>>
>> "Rich Milburn [MVP]" <richdotmilburn@applebeesdot.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:CDE31B3D-ADCE-457A-ADE2-32E4CF93466C@microsoft.com...
>> Hey has anyone used a GeForce 5500 and seen it freeze up, and hours
>> later
>> (12-24) it "recovers?" Mine seems to lock up, it's done so on several
>> builds and RTM, and 32 or 64 bit. I've used the in-box drivers and
>> the beta
>> nVidia drivers, but I haven't tried the ones that I think they just
>> released
>> (like 2 days ago, if that).
>> Thanks
>> Rich

>
>

> That's a pretty old card, not sure nVidia is going to support it with
> final-release drivers.
>
> "Rich Milburn [MVP]" <richdotmilburn@applebeesdot.com> wrote in
> message
> news:CDE31B3D-ADCE-457A-ADE2-32E4CF93466C@microsoft.com...
> Hey has anyone used a GeForce 5500 and seen it freeze up, and hours
> later
> (12-24) it "recovers?" Mine seems to lock up, it's done so on several
> builds and RTM, and 32 or 64 bit. I've used the in-box drivers and
> the beta
> nVidia drivers, but I haven't tried the ones that I think they just
> released
> (like 2 days ago, if that).
> Thanks
> Rich

> Well, they've got a beta driver that covers it (or they did a week ago,
> haven't checked since then, I've been out of town). It's funny, this one
> was specifically for testing with Vista
>
> Rich
>

>> That's a pretty old card, not sure nVidia is going to support it with
>> final-release drivers.
>>
>> "Rich Milburn [MVP]" <richdotmilburn@applebeesdot.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:CDE31B3D-ADCE-457A-ADE2-32E4CF93466C@microsoft.com...
>> Hey has anyone used a GeForce 5500 and seen it freeze up, and hours
>> later
>> (12-24) it "recovers?" Mine seems to lock up, it's done so on several
>> builds and RTM, and 32 or 64 bit. I've used the in-box drivers and
>> the beta
>> nVidia drivers, but I haven't tried the ones that I think they just
>> released
>> (like 2 days ago, if that).
>> Thanks
>> Rich

>
>

> That's a pretty old card, not sure nVidia is going to support it with
> final-release drivers.
>