Tecra M3 video drivers causing crashes

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I've never owned a laptop, but don't you need chipset drivers for the laptop
mobo of some sort?


<dan@dankohn.com> wrote in message
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> My Toshiba Tecra M3 is crashing (freezing or blue screen of death) with
> drivers 71.14, 71.36, and 76.44. It uses an NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 TE
> 128M. When I uninstall all video drivers (or boot into safe mode), the
> laptop runs fine, although of course scrolling is deadly slow and I
> can't suspend or hibernate. But when I install either of the two WHQL
> certified drivers from Toshiba's site, 71.44 or 71.36, I can
> consistently create a crash just by running a 3D screensaver for more
> than 3 minutes. The same thing happens with the 76.44 non-WHQL driver
> from laptopvideo2go.com.
>
> At this point, I'm not at all interested in great graphics performance;
> I just want a stable laptop to do some work on. Is there perhaps some
> setting within the driver to turn off whatever fancy features are
> causing the crash?
>
> The laptop has a 2.13 GHz Pentium M and 2 GB of RAM. It's running WinXP
> SP2 with all updates and is using BIOS 1.20, the latest. And I doubt
> it's a related, but here's a different problem I ran into with the VPN,
> Wi-Fi, and Matlab <http://tinyurl.com/ab7rp>.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
>