Re: latest NVIDIA driver crashing jaws

  • From: "Anders Holmberg" <anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:09:54 +0100

Hello!
How do i remove the Jaws video hooks and then reinstall them again?
Please help.
/Anders.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Hicks" <Steven.Hicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: latest NVIDIA driver crashing jaws


> I downloaded the NVIDIA driver, unloaded JAWS and uninstalled the JAWS
> video hooks using the narator.  I then re-booted, used Narator again to
> update the NVIDIA driver and re-applied the JAWS video hooks.
>
> Maybe you could give this a try?
>
> Steve.
> >>> lorneweb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 17 March 2004 >>>
>
> The following problem happened on my Toshiba notebook running windows
> XP with jaws 5.00812 running at a screen resolution of 1024 by 768 16
> bit colors
> I'm wondering if anyone else besides me has had a problem with NVIDIA
> display software update released on October 17 2003.
> It was a driver for my NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go (Toshiba) display from
> windowsUpdate.
> as soon as I downloaded and installed it, needed to reboot the system,
> which I let it do.
> from that point on, Jaws never spoke a word, although it was running
> (according to sighted assistance)
> I tried rolling back the driver and doing a full repair on jaws, but
> neither had any affect. the thing that finally worked was when I
> restored to the restore point the system created before the install.
> I'm wondering if anyone has come across this at all.
> the old driver (the one I'm still using) was giving me some critical
> errors, and I've since loaded jaws 5.00844, but wanted some idea from
> others before trying it again as doing the above was a real pain.
> Thanks.
> Lorne
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