Picasa Almost Broke My Monitor!!!

[yhelothar]

For some reason, it was scanning my videos folder that was on MY OTHER DRIVE, when I told it to just scan my pictures folder only...

Well when it started scanning my videos, it gave a little preview, and everytime it gave a preview, the nvidia full screen video would kick in, and switch my second monitor to 640x480 to play the video. Except this switched back and forth from my desktop 2048x1536 res to 640x480. I didn't even know what was happening and saw flickers, until I saw a video preview on the screen for a split second.

After my monitor wouldn't display an image anymore, and was blinking a yellow light, meaning it needs repair.
I unplugged the power for a minute to do a power cycle, and luckly it still turned on.

So make sure you turn off nvidia fullscreen video before you use picasa, otherwise you will get hardware damage.

 

[cronos]

wow. that's brutal.
what's nvidia full screen video? is it part of the nvidia driver or a stand alone software?

 

[Anubis]

it doesent like 16bit PSDs or NEFs either

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Anubis
it doesent like 16bit PSDs or NEFs either

please define "16-bit PSD". Are you talking about files using 16 bit per channel RGB colorspace?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Anubis
it doesent like 16bit PSDs or NEFs either

please define "16-bit PSD". Are you talking about files using 16 bit per channel RGB colorspace?

yep

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: saxguy
wow. that's brutal.
what's nvidia full screen video? is it part of the nvidia driver or a stand alone software?

part of the driver, that recognizes anything on the video overlay and fullscreens it on the second monitor.

-Vivan

 

[Gunslinger08]

Ouch. I hope they get this issue fixed soon.

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: vshah

Originally posted by: saxguy
wow. that's brutal.
what's nvidia full screen video? is it part of the nvidia driver or a stand alone software?

part of the driver, that recognizes anything on the video overlay and fullscreens it on the second monitor.

-Vivan

ah i see. that would be useful for HTPC-type purposes, i guess.

 

[jagec]

Frankly, I don't see what Picasa does that Windows doesn't...

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: jagec
Frankly, I don't see what Picasa does that Windows doesn't...

if you are already organized with your photos, i'd say that it's usefulness is minimal. but i just find about a hundred of old photos that i thought i could never find again, or i didn't even think still exist. they are buried deep down somewhere on the hard drive, and picasa found it.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: saxguy

Originally posted by: jagec
Frankly, I don't see what Picasa does that Windows doesn't...

if you are already organized with your photos, i'd say that it's usefulness is minimal. but i just find about a hundred of old photos that i thought i could never find again, or i didn't even think still exist. they are buried deep down somewhere on the hard drive, and picasa found it.

K, makes sense.

 

[Gooberlx2]

yeah i wasn't terribly impressed....but i've always been neat and organized with my photos. I organize them into categories instead of albums by year/folder anyway...and then ifranview is still the best imageviewer IMO (even reads the embedded jpg in my canon raws (but doesn't rotate them based on exif ).

 

[Turkish]

Well... I sat down and organized 5,000 photos yesterday, so I uninstalled Picasa. No point really if you're already organized.

 

[mrschunkee]

Originally posted by: XietyCOM
Well... I sat down and organized 5,000 photos yesterday, so I uninstalled Picasa. No point really if you're already organized.

how very nice for you and your photos

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: mrschunkee

Originally posted by: XietyCOM
Well... I sat down and organized 5,000 photos yesterday, so I uninstalled Picasa. No point really if you're already organized.

how very nice for you and your photos

yup, took me 7 hours but its worth it

 

[galois427]

virtualgames0: plz pm me back about the serillel adapters you sold me. it still hasn't arrive yet and i think it might have gotten lost.