Right-click video file = Screen Blanks for Second. . .

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Hurin

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Hi guys,

I'm truly at a loss and am about to just reformat and reinstall Windows. Something odd is happening.

Yesterday, I noticed that every time I right-click an AVI or MPEG file, my screen blanks (electronically. . . not the monitor shutting down for a second. . . I see some garbled stuff for a milisecond, and then black, and then it's back. . . all within about a second). It even does it with just a text file re-named to have an AVI or MPEG extension. Right-click-->blackness-->everything back to normal. WTF?

I recently installed my 6800GT. I also installed a printer. I have since uninstalled the printer to try to track this down. But the behavior still persists.

Has anyone else ever seen this behavior? What is causing it? I can live with it, but I'm wondering it if it indicative of anything else more serious being wrong.

Specs are in sig.

Thanks!

H
 
Its testing to see if your TV is connected to the card, if you look closely you will notice a menu item called "Play on my TV" which the nVidia drivers add if you have TV-Out-- its no biggie.
 
inotocracy said:
Its testing to see if your TV is connected to the card, if you look closely you will notice a menu item called "Play on my TV" which the nVidia drivers add if you have TV-Out-- its no biggie.
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Thanks man! Sounds right. I'll confirm when I get home.

H
 
I had the same problem with my GT. Is there a way to prevent it from looking for the TV? Mine did it every time I right clicked on my desktop or got into the display settings.
 
Gargoyle_Hunter said:
I had the same problem with my GT. Is there a way to prevent it from looking for the TV? Mine did it every time I right clicked on my desktop or got into the display settings.
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Disconnecting the SVideo cable when your not using TV-Out would do the trick I suppose.
 
lots of these 6x.xx drivers on teh 6x00 series of vid cards have had the right click explorer hagn or crash problem.

i still get it now and then its pretty annoying nad ive never even once hooked up anything to my tv out
 
inotocracy said:
Disconnecting the SVideo cable when your not using TV-Out would do the trick I suppose.
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Yeah, I've never had anything hooked to the S-VIDEO jack either. Pretty odd.
 
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