Display driver update (?)

Newbie to MBP (changed from Win XP). Having a Samsung 940b connected as external display, text is a bit blurry in Gmail inside FF browser but ok in iMail. Any tips ? update display driver .. ? change some settings in System pref's .. ?
/Lars

For modern Macs running OS X the display drivers are supplied by Apple via the OS and updates supplied via software update. The MB Pro will auto-configure to the display, but you can change the settings somewhat via system preferences>displays.

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Things I've tried:
# booting into safe mode, low-resolution video or last known good configuration all result in the same blank screen.
# connecting to the system using remote desktop (to disable the driver) isn't possible because the system hasn't loaded the network drivers yet.
# I can't revert to a restore point because Vista can't find any (I made a manual one after installing windows updates on a couple of days ago).
I can run a command prompt from the system recovery options and would prefer to use that to disable the driver +if+ I knew how before resorting to the more drastic options.
A web search (http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ati+catalyst+vista+blank+screen&hl=en&sa= N) reveals that this has happened on a wide range of laptops with
previous releases of the driver, but none of the links I've looked at give a solution that's available to me.

No joy with an external screen so I bit the bullet and reinstalled from the product recovery disk. I tried expert mode to retain the data partition but that failed twice, so I had to restore it from the previous day's backup after doing a full reinstall. Two consolations, though.
# It allowed me to increase the size of the data partition.
# The display driver update worked fine on the fresh install.
Needless to say I've since found [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927525] which describes how you can disable a problem device driver (atikmdag in my case) from the system recovery command prompt :-(
Hopefully the instructions in there will help anybody who gets caught with similar problems.

Editing software crashing-do I need Display driver update for Satelite C660

Hi folks,
recently I have installed trial versions of Adobe Premier cs5, then avid media composer and neither of them are loading, (not responding) and Adobe crashes on importerquicktime.prm.
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Or a driver issue?
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Conor

Hi
In internet I could find this interesting info:
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Re: Satellite C660 - (PSC0QE) display driver update

Hello all you wonderful people.
I'm writing this post to inquire as to why the display driver for this model hasn't been updated since 2010?
I have been playing a favourite game of mine (Civilization V) on this model. They updated the game with a patch in November and the computer can no longer display the graphics properly because of the old drivers.
I've done my research on the gaming forums to try and fix this and after looking at my dxdiag its become clear that the drivers are out of date. I've been on the Intel website and they have updated drivers for the card (Intel(R) HD graphics), I've downloaded these drivers however the laptop will not install them unless they are Toshiba verified? My questions are..
Why does Toshiba stop me from installing these drivers from Intel's website?
and
How do I get round all this Pfaff and update my graphics drivers?
Many thanks
Tom

> I've downloaded these drivers however the laptop will not install them unless they are Toshiba verified?
You can update the drivers within the device manager
>EDIT: Having spent a bit of time reading other threads i've managed to update the drivers
I assume you updated this via device manager right?
I did it too and it functioned.

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M display driver updates?

I was wondering, when will the updates for NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M driver be release? I tried playing some games and they say that my display driver is not uptodateand they do not allow me to play it =(
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link : http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-67890
Display (NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M / Quadro FX 570M) driver for Windows Vista 32-bit - ThinkPad
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Supported operating systems:
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Display Driver Update for Satellite L30-105

Could anyone give me an idiots guide on how to update a display driver for my Satellite L30-105 ( PSL33E ) PLEASE?

LOL. You need a idiot guide?? Come on man ;)
Ok, here is my guide;
Download the graphic driver for your notebook model.
Unzip the package.
Then access the device manager, mark the graphic card, update driver.
Then a new window will open.
There you have to use the second Advanced option.
Then choose the option called Dont search. I will chose the driver (or something like that)
Then point to the place where the driver package has been stored on the HDD and finish the installation.
Greets

Satellite A500-1GL - Display driver update

Recently l have been having issues with an online game and latency.
As part of the support l received they pointed out that my display driver is old and that there are more up to date ones on the NVIDIA site.
However from looking on Toshiba they still list the driver as being the one from 2010 which l have installed.
Can any one please advise me,
Can l update the driver from NVIDIA?
Or does it have to be the Toshiba one that l currently have from 2010?
If l can do the NVIDIA one can any one guide me through how l go about doing it?
(the card is a GeForce GT 330M card)
Many thanks for any help :)

> Can l update the driver from NVIDIA?
Here is a thread about the similar theme:
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=74123
The point is that nVidia or ATI drivers can be installed but only at your own risk and this requires an Advanced installation procedure via device manager.
But I found out that different Toshiba notebooks were equipped with the same graphic chip.
For example:
+Sat A660 PSAW3E+
+Sat A665 PSAW3E+
+Sat P500 PSPGSE+
Usually the graphic driver released for these models should be compatible with you A500 model
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Satellite A100-599 - question about display driver update

Hi,
I have a Satellite A100-599 with a NVIDIA 7600go graphic card and I have Bioshock like most of you the game crashes because of some problems with the graphic card drivers, no pb...in the meantime NVIDIA released some new patches to the Forceware and after I rechecked the Toshiba driver support database I saw a new release in the Display driver list for WinXp.
One of them seems to be from 13/09/2007. I downloaded the drivers, installed them and after I checked the driver details in the Device manager list and to my surprise the details said the drivers are from 2006. I reinstalled the drivers and the same thing appeared. I checked the XML that was in the drivers archive and surprise ...the drivers are really the old ones from 2006. So my question is this: Do you have any Display Drivers for my model that work for Bioshock :D
Regards,Marian

I dont know if WE have. I think it would be took some long time to ask every single user: hey, do you have some drivers for blackmodjo? Ah, come on, please. Just a little bit of them... ;)
No, I have a better idea. Its like cooking a meal. The ingredients: DriverCleaner Pro and the website www.laptopvideo2go.com and .... ta ta ta TAAAA a lot of patience
To get some good "bio"shocked meal just follow this receipt:
Go to
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/
read before you do anything (YES, even before you continue BREATHING) the FAQ-section on that site (RECOMMENDEDRECOMMENDEDRECOMMENDED)
and then download the drivers. Do it, yes...
Then download drivercleaner by searching for it on www.google.com and THEN, read their Manual before doing anything else (Ok, you can continue breathing..)
After reading their manual you will something like:
1. Starting program, doing something, restarting machine
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3. Installing new driver
3. Playing Bioshock
4...
5..no..6. Thanking me and giving me your first born.. ;)
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Satellite P100-347 (PSPA6E) - need Display Driver update

Hi all
The display drivers on the driver download page hasn't been updated in ages,
and I would very much like to update to the latest nVidia drivers.
However, when I try and install drivers from www.nvidia.com, they keep referring me to Toshiba,
but the driver we have available from there is only version 8.4.0.0.
Anyone got any tips on how to work around that, and can someone tell me what changes Toshiba has made to the drivers since nVidia redirects you instead of simply updating the drivers.
The windows version that came with the laptop is Windows XP MCE
Thanks in advance
Jimmi

Hi
> Anyone got any tips on how to work around that, and can someone tell me what changes Toshiba has made to the drivers since nVidia redirects you instead of simply updating the drivers.
The point is that Toshiba own graphic drivers are not the same like the original graphic driver from the card manufacturers.
The Toshiba own drivers are modified and support an overheating protection which helps to protect the hardware from overheating.
Why? Because the notebooks are not equipped with huge cooling modules like desktop graphic cards and therefore the driver must control a part of the heat dissipation!!
As far as I know its possible to install the drivers from nVidia website using the advanced installation procedure. You can update the driver from device manager and could point to the place where the driver was downloaded.
But note; the usage of non Toshiba graphic driver is only at your own risk and its not covered by warranty!!!
Cheers

Cannot adjust brightness after display driver update on Satellite L855-118

Hi.
I just bought an SATELLITE L855-118 , with ATI graphics today, it was between this and another one, but i know you have problems updating graphic drivers on a Sony-notebooks.
I made a restore point.
So i uninstalled the ATI catalyst and then did an driver sweeper, and re-booted and then installed catalyst 12.6 , installed fine, but my screen went to maximum brightness and i cannot adjust it, the brighness osd appears but the screen brightness does not change.
So i used my restore point.
This time i overwrote the stock catalyst 8.9 with 12.6, just the same cannot adjust the brightness.
Does anybody know how to fix this.
My full spec in the link below.
Satellite L855-118 - Product Specifications - Toshiba
Thanks
John.

This is not going to help you, but I have details on the internals of brightness control on this machine.
On other notebooks I've worked with, the hotkeys generated an event that was directly handled by the firmware (ACPI) that changed the brightness; this was done to avoid putting into the AMD video driver any system-dependent code.
On the L855 the ACPI does not really handle the notification, it just generates another event that is supposed to be handled by the video driver. For more technical details see:
[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.dri.devel/71255]
Now this is where it gets ugly: if brightness control is indeed system-dependent (e.g. you have to poke some random GPIO) then the AMD driver will never support it (it would have to know the details of each and every model in circulation).
The good news - at least for Linux users - is that AMD just published the specification of its ACPI interface:
[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.dri.devel/71697]
I've already done some experiments with it, keep an eye on the thread.
This may (or may not...) lead to a usable brightness control *for Linux*, but the same information *may* be used to create a similar driver for Windows.

Re: Does updating the display driver affect color management settings?

Hello everyone!
I have received a message about the new display driver update and I have some doubts about installing it. When I installed an update for the BIOS driver, all BIOS settings returned to the default ones, but in that case it wasn't a big deal to set them again according to my needs. But I spent, probably, half a day, adjusting the color, using the color management, and I really want to keep the settings I've done. So, please, tell me, if updating the nVidia driver affects these settings and if there's any way of backuping them? Thank you very much!

Hi,
If you install a graphic card driver, your setting will be set by default. To be honestly, I don't see any reason to update drivers if the system runs well. I still use the same drivers I downloaded before and don't make update for new one. About backing up the settings, I don't know how to do it.Anyway, I have never thought about it.
You are welcome, if have more questions.
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Can't update display driver on my Satellite Pro C660

Hi, I've got a Satellite Pro C660-2DN, and I'm trying to update my display driver through the Toshiba UK website as Intel refers me to Toshiba when I do their driver assessment thing.
I've downloaded the three latest display driver updates that I can find in the list that corresponds to the C660 but none of them will install - the temp files are extracted, but then nothing happens. Could anyone help me?
Thanks.

Hi
You can also use the driver from Intel page.
Download the Intel driver, then extract the package to a folder created on the desktop.
Then go to device manager, choose graphic card and click on update.
Now you should use the advanced installation procedure which would allow you to pick up the driver from the folder created on the desktop.
The Windows should pick up the new driver and the update should go on.

Satellite A500 - Display driver stopped responding

Hi,
3 weeks ago I bought brand new Toshiba A500. I post here because I didn't find any helpful solution.
Here is specification:
Processor: intel core i3 M330 2.13GHz
Graphic: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M (1024 MB)
Hard drive: MJA2320BH G2 (320 GB, 5400 RPM, SATA-II)
RAM: 2X 2 GB DDR3-1066 DDR3 SDRAM (7-7-7-20 @ 533 MHz) (6-6-6-18 @ 457 MHz)
Audio: Realtek ALC272 @ Intel Ibex Peak PCH
System: Windows 7 64bit - directed from Toshiba
The issue is: at random situations, the screen is turn black for a couple of seconds, then the message is pop up saying "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered - display driver NVIDIA Kernel Mode Driver, Version 187.98 stopped responding and has successfully recovered." It happens several times per day.
Sometimes display driver can't be recovered and than system hangs and must be reset. Problem occur at first day after five minutes of using (when there wasn't install anything without OS).
Problem occurs always during normal working with applications (MS office, firefox, etc.). It's completely random - there in not two the same situations - so when I watch hd films in youtube on full screen it crashes several times, but when I restart OS and than play the same movie it works correctly.
Application causes this problem is called TDR (Time-out Detection and Recovery).
This application reset GPU when didn't get respond during 2 sec. But in Windows7 registry doesn't have entries controlled this application.
Since than I tried following solutions:
- BIOS update;
- System reinstall;
- Display driver update to version 197.16;
- Checking temperature on graphic card (when issue occurs temperature on graphic card didn't exceed 47deg, and processor 36deg);
- Java update (older version of Java can causes some device problems);
- Adobe update (same as Java);
- Turn off aero;
- Windows 7 updates;
- Turn off audio (realtek card);
None of them works.
The problem didn't occur during playing games (i.ex. Witcher). I can play 8 hours and nothing weird happens.
I notice also that problem occurs during opening some applications or entering new tasks (when energy demand rapidly increases).
I wondering that is some driver problem or I should return the laptop to the service.
I suspect that problem can be to big difference in voltage on graphic card but I can't verified that.
If somebody meet with this problem I will appreciate any help.

hi,
i had the same issue with my A500-1dn equipped with GT 230 M, getting the message ,,Display driver stopped responding,,. I updated the card graphic driver from nvidia.com 3 weeks ago and since that time it' s gone ( I hope forever).

Re: Satellite U500-PSU9ME - display driver stopped responding

Since I purchased the laptop I had a problem with the display driver.
The screen keeps blackout and comes back after a second with the massage display driver stopped responding and has recovered, I wish I can attach a screenshot. The laptop have nVidia card on it.
The dealer replaced it for me but even with the new one, it comes each day once or twice
This is my 1st Toshiba, I always heard they are good but now I am kind of confused!
Anyone had this problem and could solve it? Please help.
Note: i updated all drivers.

> {quote:title=MasterG wrote:}{quote}
> +@Ai1dRo0kNotBot+
> It seems you did read any other solution suggestions from other users who have experienced a similar issue with a graphic driver.
>
> In my personal opinion the failing of the video driver has nothing to do with a gpu overheating.
>
> As other guys already suggested, an display driver updated has helped!
> The others said that disabling of Win 7 aero theme could be helpful too!
>
> As you see there are different reasons for such issue and its not matter of notebook manufacturer but in my opinion ATI and nVidia are still developing the drivers for Win 7 and there are different hardware and software configurations which could affect the driver functionality!
Why not? Driver stops responding only when cpu cooler runs on minimal rpm, seems to me, that fan rpm basically depend on cpu heat (_not_ gpu).
Very good solution, but I have a question: would you buy a server that works only when you disable lan card? would you buy a car which can turn only left?
No matter. Never the less, I'm satisfied with how the Intel i3 and Nvidia 310m works.
The thing i DO NOT like and which concerns manufacturer directly is keyboard. I don't know who designed flat buttons, but it's the worst keyboard I seen EVER. You can realize my disappointment, changing eeepc to u500 expecting better and getting THIS. They could at least have upgrade for keyboard replacement, the part that cost $50 spoils $1100, wonderful...
:( I imagined my fist toshiba as much happier thing...
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Photoshop "display driver stopped responding and has recovered"

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Suggest you go to Intel.com and see if they have an updated display driver available for your hardware and OS.
Display driver updates solve many problems.
-Noel

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