Quote Originally Posted by unclewebb View Post
Xello: I can honestly say that this is the first I've ever heard of this problem and off hand I can't think of anything RealTemp is doing that would cause this. Next time it happens post a screen shot and any details you can think of like if it was Minimized to the system tray or if it was in Mini-Mode or if the RealTemp dialog was just sitting on the desktop and then you had a look at it an hour later and it was black. If you move the mouse back and forth over it will every thing return to normal or do you have to restart? It does sound like a Vista / driver issue. What card are you using and what driver version?
I concede that this is likely a problem elsewhere then i guess. I never leave it on full display, always minimized to tray, and i'll bring it to full display every few hours to check the max temps. It's when i do this that it happens, after several hours of being minimized. I'm doing another prime test right now so i'll take a pic if it happens tonight. Moving my mouse over the window doesn't return it to normal, but the cursor does change from an arrow to a verticle line when i move it over the areas where the fields of text are. I'm on Palit 9600GT with 175.19 WHQL (the latest).

Quote Originally Posted by loonym View Post
That's a 9600gt issue not realtemp I think. I have occasional weirdness with my 9600's too.
Sounds like that could be it then, though i haven't had anything else like this so far. I'll be getting 4870X2's in a few weeks so i'll see if it does it with them.

Another question, it's probably covered somewhere in this thread but it's a big thread! The 'idle calibration' feature, basically how do i use it to set up properly with my cpu, or is there even a need to, can i just leave it alone?