Hi, I'm having trouble with the video card in a system I just acquired. It's a Dell Precision workstation with a Nvidia Quadro FX 3450 graphics card. I have the latest driver from Nvidia installed, and all windows updates on a fresh WinXP SP2 installation. I noticed the monitor going black for a couple seconds every now and then just after I got XP and all the drivers installed. Thought it might be a loose connection until I realized that the blackout was occuring when I run something graphics-intensive. By intensive I mean one of the visualizations in Windows Media Player as a song is playing. If I enable the visualizations and play a song, the screen will go black immediately and the video signal won't return until I stop the song. It happens with other things too, like video clips on the web....anything that calls on the GPU really. So, I don't get it. It's a fresh installation, the right driver, very high-end video card....I can't find anything like this on Nvidia's site, or Google for that matter. Lots of "screen goes black momentarily" issues, but none like this one. Any ideas folks? Thanks for your time and attention. Best, Ryan

Quadro FX series are optimised for Office/Business Software and not ideal for Gaming/Video Rendering etcetc. These cards are very good for 2D/3D AutoCAD Drawing though. The Precision Workstation itself is optimised for Office not Home use.

Thanks. I hear ya, but I need to figure this out. Google Earth, for example, is hopeless.....same thing happens when I mouse over the Google Earth window. Even at the office I should be able to watch a news vid clip on CNN.

First see if an earlier driver from nVidia has any better results. Second if poss try another Graphics Card..