NVIDIA drivers cause screen blinking?

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John Doe

ASUS A8N5X (NVIDIA nForce 4 chipset)
Opteron 152
1 GB RAM
GeForce FX5500 (PCI) OR GeForce 7950GT (PCI Express 16)
Windows XP SP2
DirectX 9.0c

A while back, I bought a PCI Express mainboard and used a GeForce
FX5500 PCI card until I could afford to buy a 7950GT. At that time,
NVIDIA drivers above 56.64 would cause the display to blink off
whenever a multimedia file was either deleted or just right clicked
on.

Now I've got the 7950 GT and the same thing is happening.

Is this a well-known problem with recent drivers? Could it be a
settings problem? Is there some workaround besides going back to
version 56.64 of NVIDIA drivers?

Thank you.
 
In alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia John Doe said:
A while back, I bought a PCI Express mainboard and used a GeForce
FX5500 PCI card until I could afford to buy a 7950GT. At that time,
NVIDIA drivers above 56.64 would cause the display to blink off
whenever a multimedia file was either deleted or just right clicked
on.
Now I've got the 7950 GT and the same thing is happening.
Is this a well-known problem with recent drivers? Could it be a
settings problem? Is there some workaround besides going back to
version 56.64 of NVIDIA drivers?
Click to expand...

The problem is the "Play on my..." entry in the context menu. See
<http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=44677> for info on how
to disable this.

-a (followups trimmed)
 
I said:
NVIDIA drivers above 56.64 cause the display to blink off whenever
a multimedia file is either deleted or just right clicked on.
Click to expand...

Not sure, but maybe I should have noted multiple monitors.

That bug in NVIDIA's drivers is worked around this way.

Adapted from Chris Largent's post:
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

.... copy any important files from your hard drive to removable media

.... open the Windows registry editor

.... search for "PlayOnMyTV"

.... append "-disable" to the Default entrys (about six times),
to make each PlayOnMyTV Default entry look like this:
{...-Disable}

.... close Regedit and restart your computer

Good luck and have fun.
 
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