nvlddmkm display driver stopped responding

I had a problem with my NVIDIA drivers, blanking my screen and turning my monitor off while some times I would get the error message the driver stopped responding and was restarted or something.

I tried everything to no end. At the end I tried two things that seemed to help the matter.

First I went into the NVIDIA control panel in the 3D settings and changed in the Global settings the Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration setting to Single display performance mode. That helped a bit when I was minimizing and maximizing windows, the driver was slowing down but wasn’t crashing.

Second, after a nice hard crash, I went into BIOS and change the frequency of the memory sticks to the lowest I could get, which it was 667MHz. That seemed to stabilize the system a bit more.

So far no crash, but hey you never know. LOL.

UPDATE:
Those settings didn't work at all. Screen still turning off when the error appearing. I had to use an older version of the NVIDIA drivers (186.18) to be able to actually recover from the error. Now the screen does come back on with out freezing the whole system. Is not a solution per se, but it's something. Research is still going on to find a defenetely solution.

AutoCAD 2010 LT crashes on Windows 7 32 bit

Lately i have seen that AutoCAD 2010 LT crashes all the time on computers having Win7 32 bit editions but not in the 64 bit editions. Apparently it has something to do with memory allocation. I had searched high and low for an answer with not much of luck, untill a post in Autodesk's web site pointed to a (logical) solution.

It seems that having the AERO theme on causes AutoCAD LT to crash. By changing to Windows Basic theme the problem seems to go away.

Thank you to all the guys for that solution.

AutoCAD 2010 mtext doesn't show anything when I type

Arggg... And i thought Micro$oft had problems. Nope! Autodesk is as bad as them. The other day i had a call about an AutoCAD 2010 misbehaving. The problem was that the mtext editor wasn't showing anything typed in but could delete. Also i was getting the Undefined something 0.

I tried mtexted set to oldeditor; nothing. I re-installed AutoCAD; nothing. I even created another user and after checking that the program word, i copied all profile files to the other account. Yup you guest it; NOTHING!

I was pulling my hair out. What was the problem. I was starting to play around with settings, and my eye caught the AUTOcaps setting on the mtext dialog box; it was ticked.

I unticked it and it worked! I was amazed! I couln't belive it.

So there you go folks, Autodesk is as bad as Micro$oft sometimes. :-)

Intelide failes to start

I encountered another problem today regarding a service that was failing to start every day. The error message was "The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load" and was pointing to intelide.

After lots of time on the internet I found an entry from marilynbickle on the website http://www.smartcomputing.com/QABoard/QAMain.aspx?search=fq&fqid=534426&lnqs=df&qapg=5&guid= that pointed me to the right direction.

Straight away I changed the Start setting from 0 to 4 and rebooted. After the computer started I checked the logs and I couln't see the error again. The problem seemed to have gone away!! Yeaaaahhh!

Thank you marilynbickle for the help whereever you are. Much appriciated.

Excel doesn't open files from shortcuts

I had a weird problem the other day. Excel couln't open any file from the desktop or any location. It was saying that can't find the file or something similar. I said "great! Another stupid Micro$oft error. What else am I going to see?".

So I went online to try to find a solution to the problem. After some searching I found that if you uncheck the option IGNORE OTHER APPLICATIONS THAT USE DYNAMIC DATA EXCHANGE (DDE) the problem was solved.

You can find that option under Tools, options in Excel 2003 or Excel Options, Advanced in Excel 2007.

Updating KDE 4.2 to KDE 4.3

This is an
First open the list from a command console as follows:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following line at the end of the file:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu jaunty main

Add the security GPG keys as follows:
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 2836CB0A8AC93F7A
gpg --export --armor 2836CB0A8AC93F7A | sudo apt-key add -

Update the packages:
sudo apt-get update

Install the new updates:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

And reset the computer for the new KDE to take effect.

Force mounting NTFS drives in Linux

Sometimes when you try to mount a NTFS drive under Linux it fails because the drive hasn't been "unmounted" under windows correctly. Well to force it to mount you can use the following command:

Sudo mount -t NTFS-3g /dev/sda1 /media/Windows -o force

Where /dev/sda1 is the HDD and /media/Windows is the label of the partition (or HDD) that you want to mount.