I had some problems earlier with the display driver crashing (see http://www.yogblog.com/2011/03/display-driver-woes/) and I fixed it by going to an earlier version of Flash. Well some of my software only works with the latest version so I had to go back. Of course the problem came back. I read it could be hardware acceleration causing the problem so I went to this site, http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/info/en/help/requirements/flash.html, to test the flash video and while it was playing I right clicked and got into the Settings and unclicked “Enable hardware acceleration”. After a few tests, which includes restarting the browser, it seems to have fixed the problem.
So, if you Google and get this site, try to disable the hardware acceleration, it is working for me…. at the moment.
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I have been having display driver problems since I had to reinstall the OS on my laptop, the dreaded “Display driver has stopped and been restarted” error. This would only happen on some of the videos from Youtube so I was guessing maybe Flash was the problem.
I tried everything until I read a post about a person that uninstalled Adobe Player 10 and reinstalled 9. I did it and now the videos play without a problem.
Adobe, maybe y’all might want to look into this problem. A lot of people seem to be having it lately.
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Just when I thought it was safe to get back in the water… uhm blogoshpere, things go south in both hardware and um I guess hardware. I keep planning on doing some serious blogging and about the time I sit down something happens, whether it be really bad storm, connection problems, work overload, or just some project at home that needs to be done gets in the way. I know, it only takes a few minutes to jot something down, why don’t you keep us informed on Twitter, your shoes are on fire… (?) I only have so many hours and minutes in a day and I already do not sleep enough. I will do my best to get myself on-line more often and actually write something of substance.
Why the post’s title? I was driving back to work (I had to get a replacement keyboard for my wife) and I looked up in the sky and it looked just like the sky on The Simpsons. I took pictures but I don’t have any way at present to get them off my phone.
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It seems my Mondays are just getting worse each week. I came to work today and booted up my computer, or rather attempted to boot up my computer and it slowed to a stall. It should not take a Pentium 4 running Windows XP on a Novell network 30 minutes to get from logon screen to the start of the desktop loading. I know I have a relatively slow in current terms machine, but not that slow. Plus some of the software I need for work is not running correctly. I think it all has to do with the recent Java update, they always seem to screw up the system.
Plus every once in awhile my hard drive makes the “Oh crap, it is about to die” grinding noise.
I guess next Monday the building will fall down.
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