Thanks to Nick Hall, Ian Tidy, Robert Crossley, Greg Francisco and Markus Linder for their pointers and Bill Williams for the phone support.

 

Original Post:

 

Just updated monitor and video card – now having trouble with MapInfo locking up.

Using

MapInfo V8.5

Dell 24” LCD 2407WFP

NVIDIA GeForce 6800XT video card using 1920 by 1200 resolution

Windows XP Pro SP2

Pentium 4 S775-650 3.4Ghz

GA 8N-SLI PRO Motherboard

 

 

Replies:

 

Not sure if its much help but my colleague's laptop does the same when he selects something - it's probably the nvidia graphics card.  we ended up replacing it with a non nvidia and the problem went away.

HTH

Nick

 

Tom,

Make sure you don't have the NVIDIA Menu turned on.  Make sure this is turned off.  I have a FX1300 and the NVIDIA Menu causes MapInfo to stop working.

Hope This helps.

Cheers Ian

 

Hi guys,

Try slowing down the hardware acceleration in the graphics settings.  That used to have an issue with not redrawing.
R

 

G'day Tom,

Below are some responses I gave to Bill Williams at Parliament House Library.

We are now using MapInfo 8.0 and still need to force the LCD monitors to refresh once in a while.

I suggest you trial another card to eliminate that part of the puzzle. We changed to Matrox Millennium P650 PCIe 128 with 128 Mb memory and all is well.

There are a few posts on this in the archives.

HTH

Greg.

 

Hello,

i have the same problem using

MapInfo 8.5

Dell Inspirion 9400

XP Pro SP2

P4 T2400 Dual Core

NVIDIA 6800 by 1920x1200

i found a lot of event-log messages  caused by nview  but have no

solution at all.

I you find something out, please let me know. Very annoying, because

always when MapInfo hangs,

i have to kill and restart the epxlorer as well.

Regards

Markus

 

 

Result:

I switched off the NVIDIA menu as Ian suggested and MapInfo has not locked up since.

 

I have however decided to replace the card as I now see strange linear artifacts across solid regions that come and go as I zoom in and out.

 

 

 

Thanks

Tom Orr

 

Orr and Associates

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Wongaling Beach

QLD 4852

Australia

 

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