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Scoutamis 		Old
23rd February 2012, 04:18 AM
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Ever since i got the Windows 8 Developer Preview, i have noticed that my screen will randomly flash black for a split second every once and a while. Also sometimes my whole computer will freeze, then it will beep loudly, then it shows the search bar, and the date box. After a few seconds of showing that, it goes back to normal and says the driver has stopped and recovered. Anyone else experiencing this?
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Ever since i got the Windows 8 Developer Preview, i have noticed that my screen will randomly flash black for a split second every once and a while. Also sometimes my whole computer will freeze, then it will beep loudly, then it shows the search bar, and the date box. After a few seconds of showing that, it goes back to normal and says the driver has stopped and recovered. Anyone else experiencing this?
BUMP.

Also having this problem but my machine does not recovery, has been happening since DP and now with the RTM screen flashes and eventually completely crashes my system. Lenovo Ideacentre B500 Pentium Core2Duo Nvidia Gefore GT 300 series. 4Gig Ram.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as it is unusable and would love to make it the primary operating system as at the moment Im dualbooting with windows 7.

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sounds like your graphics drivers are crashing, try updated drivers, you are using Release preview and not the outdated developer preview joeb?
 
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sounds like your graphics drivers are crashing, try updated drivers, you are using Release preview and not the outdated developer preview joeb?
I have use Developer Preview, Release Preview and now the RTM. All have given me the same problem, ie crashinf my PC, in RTM it was giving me the flashing screen and eventually crashing. I have updated my graphics card Geforce GT 240m to Driver version 308.82, it fixed the issue with the flashing sreen within apps but unfortunatly my pc still eventaully grinds to a hlt and crashes/locks up forcing me to do a hard restart.
 
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