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oh dear nvidia
I have an XPS15 running windows 7. It has had an easy life for the last year, as all it has been used for is word.
I recently tried to connect it to my samsung tv through a HDMI cable. I thought this would be easy fare for a reasonably new Laptop, but it is killing it...
I have been getting everything from complete freezes / blue screen errors (saying nvidia card has crashed) to normal error msgs (saying the card has stopped.)
Im not a computer genius, but ive tried downloading drivers from nvidia & dell. I have also ran diagnostics / maintenance and adjusted setting through laptop / nvidia interfaces. (and yes i know how to use basics ie function keys and extending to other screens) It did work once but the video / images on screen were blinking/ distorted/ pixelated.
If i plug the HDMI in to laptop with it already in tv it freezes- not just the image moving to other screen, pointer dead slow / stops- then laptop crashes. If i plug it in the other way it takes longer to crash but half the time the tv wont find the laptop.
Im a bit concerned as this is the first real work i have asked the card to do and it clearly cant handle it! Any advice would be great
Nvidia Geforce GT 540M driver 332.21
windows 7 home premium 64bit service pack 1
XPS 15 L502X 6GB