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PC Details: Win 2000 Professional SP2 Creative 3D Blaster Riva TNT video card Driver installed: 4.1.8.0 J2RE 1.4.1_01 in Mozilla 1.3
Using Mozilla (as I usually do) I had a problem when I viewed the following URL - http://www.nstc.org.nz/gallery.html
On scrolling down the page the trouble started when the standard Lake applet entered the screen - the screen went black and screen then froze. ^ Alt Del was useless and the PC needed a front panel reset. This problem to occur with any Java applet on any site and would happen EVERY time so I considered it quite a catastrophic bug.
The Event Viewer showed - Source: nv Event ID 13 GR SW Notify error on 0000 88001c00 00000042 00000304 10003D00 00000002
I re-installed the nVidia driver with standard Microsoft nVidia driver and applet views were then OK, no problems.