Hope it works for ya. I turn hardware acceleration off in flash and browsers as a rule now. I just don't understand the point of heating up my video card for the sake of rendering text or a low quality video, in addition to the driver issues i've seen with it.

It's a jury rig version of a stress test :D.

That's a problem right there: the last drivers that didn't have a really nasty problem switching 3D mode were 275. "Newest possible stable drivers" isn't safe. The last drivers that were generally stable with heavy browser use were 275.

Maybe WhoCrashed can give better insight if the problem occur again. It just tiny piece of software that can identify what is the cause of BSOD on your system.

I was referring to the latest 280.whatsit drivers. They're not supposed to be beta from what I can tell. I'm using 275.whatsit now and it's all fine and good again.

I'm not sure if the version numbers are different for XP.

nVidia uses the same driver version numbers for XP.

275 is the known good one. 280 is the bad actor. 285 fixes some of 280's problems, but it is still beta.

Because 275 is no longer current, and 285 is beta, you have to get these from nVidia's "Archived and beta drivers" page.

If you just go to the nVidia driver page, you will get 280, which is the cause of many of these problems.

I've got a better fix. Just release 275 as 285. People will download and install that. Problem solved. Then they can take their time getting the beta right.