Recent content by Jdkmotorhead

The cause of the error was that explorer.exe crashed; how do I keep this from happening? Here is the log file: Version=1 EventType=APPCRASH EventTime=130638272262301225 ReportType=2 Consent=1 UploadTime=130638278381667083 ReportFlags=524288 ReportIdentifier=41bd0c54-8ac4-11e4-bf51-b8763f1d9546...

I checked in the system events log in the "My Dell" software, and the error log names "explorer.exe" as the culprit. That makes sense, because when you go to task manager and restart explorer.exe, the screen goes blank like that, and then refreshes.

Nothing has happened since I reinstalled the driver; hopefully that was the fix!

I play Minecraft; is that graphic-intensive enough? I've never had problems while playing.

Is there a better free diagnostics software that you would recommend for me to test the video card with?

What to you mean, "how stressed was the test"? And yes, I have recently blown the dust out of the fan; during the stress test, the fan was blowing a lot of hot air out, so I'm assuming that it's cooling fine.

I just ran a stress test on the video card (with the "My Dell" application) and everything went fine. The temp got as high as 65 degrees celsius (the max temp for the CPU is 105 C), but it passed the test, and the display was still working fine. If it was going to overheat, wouldn't that have...

The GPU is integrated with the CPU, so would it be safe to heat the CPU? And I've never had this problem before, so why would it happen now? I tried downgrading the driver and then re-installing it, and it's working so far; I'll let you know if it does it again. And I recently blew all of the...

I have a dell laptop running Windows 8.1; every so often, the screen just turns yellow (I think that it is just yellow because that's the color I chose in start menu personalization). The only thing that still shows are my widgets on the desktop, so I know that the system is still running...