Possible video card problem

[CADShark]

Every so often I'll open a drawing or model and get a big black bar along the left and top of my viewport pane of Solidworks. I'm using a HP xw8000, Xeon proc, 1.5GB Ram, Nvidia Quadro4 380XGL card. The only thing is that the video driver I have is from HP NOT Nvidia or the one listed on SW certified driver list. I would only assume that HP used the correct driver since I bought this PC designed specifically for SolidWorks from HP.

Any help?

"Perfection - a result of many mistakes."
BJH

 

[GBor]

The obvious would be to download the nVidia driver and not assume HP gave you the right one...

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

Sorry if I'm missing something or that seemed rude...it's not meant to be (rude, that is).

 

[SBaugh]

Actuall GBor I would DL the correct driver from the SW website, before I go anywhere else.

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/VideoCardTesting.html

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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[CADShark]

I was also running Windows Media Player at the time. And our IT guy found out that there is a conflict with WMP and SW. So i'm trying not to run WMP.

"Perfection - a result of many mistakes."
BJH

 

[SBaugh]

Strange... I run WMP all the time with SW and have not had any conflicts.

How did he determine that it was a conflict?

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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[Heckler]

I'm with Scott......I run WMP with no problems to SWx. You might be a victim of the Sony cloaking software if you're loaded songs from a Sony CD.....just a thought.

Best Regards,

Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 5.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NIVIDA Quadro FX 1400
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