Laptop problems...

[Jessica]

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

[BigDadday]

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

[billybob3]

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

[Jessica]

^ ..
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.

[billybob3]

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