Vista - Major NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 Problems

Hey everyone!

I just now decided to join but I've been looking around the forums for a while now as a guest. Recently I was referred to the website laptopvideo2go.com by these forums. I went there and because I had the old factory installed version 98.15 driver for my NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150, I decided to download one of the newer ones. By the way, I have a HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop. The driver that I chose was 7.15.0011.7770. It installed correctly and everything worked fine except for the fact that whenever I logged on, the screen would flash black and the graphics would become distorted and blurry and my desktop icons would look really magnified. But then, a few seconds later, the black screen would flash again and the graphics would go back to normal and everything would be fine. Today, however, the graphics did not revert back to normal. Everything stayed really big and fuzzy. I thought that since the driver that I downloaded from laptopvideo2go.com was not digitally signed, or whatever, that it was the problem. So, I went to the HP website and proceeded to download the original NVIDA update (98.15), that I had previously, for my driver. It installed like normal until it got halfway in the installation loading bar. Then, my computer suddenly restarted itself and said that Windows did not start correctly and gave me the option to run some repair thing. I did, and it couldn't fix anything. So, I restarted again and got the same thing and went into safe mode and uninstalled my driver. Then, I updated the driver with the same 98.15 update and it worked and told me that I needed to restart. So I did and I got the "Windows did not start correctly" message again and I went into safe mode. The driver had not installed and everything was still big and fuzzy. However, the driver was still deleted. So, I restarted again, got the same message, and went into "Last known good configuration" mode, which I am in now. And, of course, the display is still really big and fuzzy. Oh, and if you select the start normally option instead of the repair option, it will proceed to load with the Windows loading bar but will do that automatic restart thing before it gets to the Windows Vista logo every time. So, it's like a never-ending loop of restarts. I did some research online and I found out nothing, so I guess that my problem is unique. I'd really like to have my computer's original crystal-clear graphics back, but right now the priority is actually getting it to log on. Do y'all have any suggestions?

P.S. Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to make sure y'all got all of the details.

Never mind. I just used a system restore point right before I installed the faulty driver. Now everything works again. I didn't even know that you could do that; it's pretty handy!

yes indeed, life saver sometimes. before doing anything extreme like that, or driver changes. always make a restore point.

I had that same problem on my old laptop, everytime I started iTunes, the screen resolution went horribly bad. Never found out what it was tho... Good to hear it's working again for you.

Amplid

You could always try to install latest drivers again.. Knowing if there is a problem you can safely go back again.

First you should download the new driver. then Uninstall the old. Then restart. after restart. everything will be big, and fuzzy. and the screen may in fact flash a few times. When changing drivers, screen flashes are a common thing.

So download new, uninstall the old. restart. everything will be big. Install the new driver.. restart. things will probably be big and fuzzy after you install the new. you need to let it restart. the settings will take effect. then when it loads you can go into the settings and change the screen resolution back to the Correct Native size now your on the new driver. so by the sounds of it, the fuzzyness and flashing worried you. when it could have been ok. Other than the restarts.. lol.

Try again. see what happens. Make sure it's the CORRECT new driver.