Hudson Super6 ’51

Hudson Super6 1951

This is the other car I shot yesterday a fine Hudson Super6 1951. This car is to be fully restored and repainted.

The last

The last

First real photoshoot: Pontiac Streamliner ’41

Pontiac Streamliner '41

Today I was out to do a *serious* photoshoot, of two cars, one of which I’ve shot before. Hell I even used a tripod . I took a lot of shots, from different positions and places, but here’s the first result. Shot in the low lighting of a sun about to set.

Fix for nVidia “Driver has stopped responing”

In the coming weeks two giant FPS games will be released; The incredible “Battlefield 3″ from DiCE Sweden and the latest incarnation in the Call of Duty series; “Modern Warfare 3″.

I’ve been using a Radeon card but decided to switch with my son as his PSU wasn’t sufficient to run his nVidia 260 GTX.

But lo an behold as the new card caused me the dreaded TDR (Timeout Detection & Recovery) error; the screen would freeze, sometimes for a couple of seconds and at times forcing me to do a hard reset. The former prompting a “Display driver stopped responding and has recovered”

Display driver stopped responding and has been recovered

This is a well known problem that has plagued thousands of Windows Vista and Windows 7 (I am on Win7 x64) users.

Suggestions for fixing this issue are various, ranging from editing the registry, faulty PSU’s, bad RAM or overheating.

None of them worked for me… until I stumbled upon an obscure post (unfortunately I cannot remember the original URL).

The suggestion was to use an nNvidia tweaking utility called “PowerMizer Manager” found here:

http://somemorebytes.com/wp/index.php/software/nvpmmanager/

The operational procedure for fixing this issue for me was very easy: Just run the program and set to “[fixed performance level]” with the setting as shown in the image below [Max. Perf / Min. PowerSave]

nVidia TDR fix

I hope this post will be helpful to some of you experiencing this annoying problem. But a disclaimer is that you do this at your own peril.

Fingers crossed my computer’s been up and running for 24h now without any problem.

Wax on, wax off

Holt's siliconized wax polishing

Tool

Waterwoman

Waterwoman

Continuing my series of street-photos from India that I started yesterday.

Some effort

Some effort

The dude

The Dude

This idea just floated around

Just floated around

The Spirit of 1776

Town Hall, Skanör

Building starting in 1776 , the Town Hall in Skanör was completed in 1777.

Still Life #2

Still Life #2

From where the chestnut tree grows

From where the chestnut tree grows

* Soft *

Soft