My brother is having problems with his laptop.
Randomly he gets this error:
Windows detected and recovered from a device failure.
please save and reboot.

he says after he gets the message it looks like he's in Safe mode.
So MY assumption is video problem?

i told him to run scandisk and defrag right now..


he's in another city so i cant like try a lot of things out and stuffs

anyway.

its an ECS I-Buddie 928
Intel P4 2.0Ghz
1GB DDR
30GB HD

http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/a928.htm

Has he downloaded anything of late? also seeing as it seems to be a new one does it have the system restore on it so he coul;d go back and reset it? BD

Hi Jessica,

I'm pretty sure this is a driver problem. To fix it, your brother needs to download the latest driver for his video card. You didn't mention which kind of video card he has, so I can't really direct you to a link. But, chances are he can find them at the manufacters website.

Hope this helps,

- billybob3

^ ..
yeah i put it in google..and a bunch of hits were about video card problems

so he downloaded the new drivers and directx9

and so far so good.

Alright, that's great. Thanks for letting us know all was good. :)