1. Forum
  2. Usenet
  3. COMP.SYS.LAPTOPS

  • Lenovo Thinkpad P50's W10 video driver crashing in web browsers?

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 26 01:43:55 2016
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.sys.laptop, comp.sys.laptops.thinkpad

    Hello.

    Is anyone else getting video driver crashing in updated W10 on a Lenovo Thinkpad P50? I just got it last Tuesday. So far, I didn't get any get
    hard crashes. I just get a brief pause and then its bottom right
    notification about its video driver crashing and restarting.

    I have all the updates from Windows Updates. I read that MS provide
    drivers from there? Is it because of the heat (almost 90F degrees in my
    room during the heat waves)?

    Thank you in advance. :)
    --
    Quote of the Week: "But once the ants and termites jumped the high
    barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from
    becoming fully social, they dominated the world." --E. O. Wilson
    Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly.
    /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site)
    / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net
    | |o o| |
    \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit-
    ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Yeff@21:1/5 to Ant on Tue Jul 26 05:17:37 2016
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.sys.laptop, comp.sys.laptops.thinkpad

    On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 01:43:55 -0500, Ant wrote:

    I have all the updates from Windows Updates.

    It's possible MS doesn't have the latest drivers. Go into "Display
    adapters" in Device Manager and compare the driver dates with what's
    available directly from Lenovo:

    <http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/Laptops-and-netbooks/ThinkPad-P-Series-laptops/ThinkPad-P50?LinkTrack=Solr&beta=false>

    From there it's showing "ThinkPad Video Features (NVIDIA N16S / Quadro
    N16P) for Windows 10 (64-bit) - ThinkPad P50" being released on ý2016ý-ý07ý-ý03.

    If that doesn't help you might also look into updating the BIOS/UEFI,
    also found on that page. Only do that as a last resort though.
    Updating the BIOS on a working machine can introduce problems you didn't
    have without updating.

    --

    -Jeff B.
    zoomie@fastmail.fm

    "Excuse me.
    I don't mean to impose,
    but I am the Ocean."

    ~ The Salton Sea

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Yeff on Tue Jul 26 10:07:58 2016
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.sys.laptop, comp.sys.laptops.thinkpad

    Yeff wrote:
    On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 01:43:55 -0500, Ant wrote:

    I have all the updates from Windows Updates.

    It's possible MS doesn't have the latest drivers. Go into "Display
    adapters" in Device Manager and compare the driver dates with what's available directly from Lenovo:

    <http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/Laptops-and-netbooks/ThinkPad-P-Series-laptops/ThinkPad-P50?LinkTrack=Solr&beta=false>

    From there it's showing "ThinkPad Video Features (NVIDIA N16S / Quadro
    N16P) for Windows 10 (64-bit) - ThinkPad P50" being released on ý2016ý-ý07ý-ý03.

    If that doesn't help you might also look into updating the BIOS/UEFI,
    also found on that page. Only do that as a last resort though.
    Updating the BIOS on a working machine can introduce problems you didn't
    have without updating.


    And this is where the notion of "supported" comes in,
    for prospective Win10 users.

    These are the drivers available to you:

    1) Microsoft Basic Display Adapter.
    Fixed 1024x768 resolution.
    Equivalent to the VESA fallback driver in older OSes.

    2) In-box manufacturer (NVidia/ATI) driver.
    Seems to be an older driver. Not bug free.
    May not be the same driver as was delivered
    during Win10 Preview times.

    3) When your video card "continues to be supported",
    a visit to the NVidia/ATI site gives you a newer
    driver you can install. This is the driver that
    Microsoft isn't delivering. On my ATI, this
    was ATI Crimson CCC2.

    Now, my laptop is missing (3). It's an ATI, but ATI
    doesn't have a driver for download for HD4200 chipset
    graphics. That means, when the in-box ATI driver
    throws errors, I will be seeing those forever.

    If you have a really really old video card (FX5200),
    then both (2) and (3) are missing. You can coax Win10
    to run with just (1) in place. No good for gaming.
    Good for email. Perhaps the web browser or Flash
    don't have "hardware acceleration", which they can
    detect.

    If the video driver crashes in a browser, turn
    off "hardware acceleration" in the browser.

    If the video driver crashes just when an Adobe Flash
    video starts to play, turn off "hardware acceleration"
    in Flash.

    Paul

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Ant@21:1/5 to zoomie@fastmail.fm on Tue Jul 26 17:38:26 2016
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.sys.laptop, comp.sys.laptops.thinkpad

    In alt.comp.os.windows-10 Yeff <zoomie@fastmail.fm> wrote:
    On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 01:43:55 -0500, Ant wrote:

    I have all the updates from Windows Updates.

    It's possible MS doesn't have the latest drivers. Go into "Display
    adapters" in Device Manager and compare the driver dates with what's available directly from Lenovo:

    <http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/Laptops-and-netbooks/ThinkPad-P-Series-laptops/ThinkPad-P50?LinkTrack=Solr&beta=false>

    From there it's showing "ThinkPad Video Features (NVIDIA N16S / Quadro
    N16P) for Windows 10 (64-bit) - ThinkPad P50" being released on ???2016???-???07???-???03.

    According to Device Mananger, I have two video cards:
    1. Intel(R) Graphics 530
    2. NVIDIA Quadro M1000M.
    I noticed I could right click and do update drivers. So, I let them
    check and update both before rebooting. Let's see if this works.


    If that doesn't help you might also look into updating the BIOS/UEFI,
    also found on that page. Only do that as a last resort though.
    Updating the BIOS on a working machine can introduce problems you didn't
    have without updating.

    Yeah, that's a scary part and it is not my machine.
    --
    Quote of the Week: "But once the ants and termites jumped the high
    barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from
    becoming fully social, they dominated the world." --E. O. Wilson
    Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly.
    /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site)
    / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net
    | |o o| |
    \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit-
    ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)