T61 video watching issue - flicker and hanging

When watching fullscreen video on my T61 with NVS140M on XP the bottom half of the screen intermittently starts to flicker with a gray color. It is usually only remedied by going from fullscreen to window to fullscreen again (FAST). But sometimes the screen goes blank as well, the video is still running since I can hear the sound. However no keyboard input works (CTRL+DEL, etc).
The issues arise even when watching in window mode - if the video window is partially outside the screen.
I've tried other codecs, newest video drivers and googled the issue but nothing has come up. Does this seem like a hardware problem or software problem?
Thanks for any help

elementx, welcome to the forum,
if you could post your type and model number and which OS you have this would be a help. If your model number ends in CTO please provide some details about your T61 i.e. which graphic chip. This would help us to help you.
Which driver are you installing, maybe you could provide a link to it?
If you have a factory installation you could try installing the original driver which can be found in C:\swtools\drivers\video.
Thanks in advance
Andy ______________________________________
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elementx, welcome to the forum,
if you could post your type and model number and which OS you have this would be a help. If your model number ends in CTO please provide some details about your T61 i.e. which graphic chip. This would help us to help you.
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