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Re: Lenovo Thinkpad P50's W10 video driver crashing in web browsers?

From ANTant@zimage.com (Ant)
Subject Re: Lenovo Thinkpad P50's W10 video driver crashing in web browsers?
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.sys.laptop, comp.sys.laptops, comp.sys.laptops.thinkpad
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Date 2016-07-26 17:38 -0500

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10 Yeff <zoomie@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 01:43:55 -0500, Ant wrote:

> > I have all the updates from Windows Updates.

> It's possible MS doesn't have the latest drivers.  Go into "Display
> adapters" in Device Manager and compare the driver dates with what's
> available directly from Lenovo:

> <http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/Laptops-and-netbooks/ThinkPad-P-Series-laptops/ThinkPad-P50?LinkTrack=Solr&beta=false>

> From there it's showing "ThinkPad Video Features (NVIDIA N16S / Quadro
> N16P) for Windows 10 (64-bit) - ThinkPad P50" being released on
> ???2016???-???07???-???03.

According to Device Mananger, I have two video cards:
1. Intel(R) Graphics 530
2. NVIDIA Quadro M1000M.
I noticed I could right click and do update drivers. So, I let them 
check and update both before rebooting. Let's see if this works.


> If that doesn't help you might also look into updating the BIOS/UEFI,
> also found on that page.  Only do that as a last resort though.
> Updating the BIOS on a working machine can introduce problems you didn't
> have without updating.

Yeah, that's a scary part and it is not my machine.
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Lenovo Thinkpad P50's W10 video driver crashing in web browsers? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-07-26 01:43 -0500
  Re: Lenovo Thinkpad P50's W10 video driver crashing in web browsers? Yeff <zoomie@fastmail.fm> - 2016-07-26 05:17 -0400
    Re: Lenovo Thinkpad P50's W10 video driver crashing in web browsers? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2016-07-26 10:07 -0400
    Re: Lenovo Thinkpad P50's W10 video driver crashing in web browsers? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-07-26 17:38 -0500

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