Microsoft has posted a solution on its web site that
involves disabling certain aspects of video acceleration, but I??™ve never
encountered an instance where this worked. Instead, try the following:
??? Try upgrading your computer??™s power supply. A power supply of
poor quality or insufficient wattage will be unable to provide adequate
power to all your computer??™s components, and may result in
a ???brown out??? of sorts in your system. Note that newer, more
power-hungry video adapters are more susceptible to this problem.
See ???Don??™t Overlook the Power Supply,??? later in this chapter.
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??? Make sure you have the latest driver for your video card. If you
already have the latest driver, try ???rolling back??? to an older driver to
see whether that solves the problem.
??? Make sure you have the latest driver for your sound card, if applicable.
Also, make sure your sound card is not in a slot immediately
adjacent to your video card, lest the resulting interference or heat
disrupt the operation of either card.
??? Make sure your video card is properly seated in its AGP or PCI slot.
If it??™s a PCI card, try moving it to a different slot.
??? Inspect your video card and motherboard for physical damage.
??? Try messing with some of your system??™s BIOS settings, especially
those concerning your AGP slot or video subsystem, as described in
Appendix A. For example, if your AGP slot is set to 2x mode, and
your video adapter only supports 1x AGP mode, then you??™ll want to
change the setting accordingly.
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