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Win XP BSOD and nVidia cards.
Hi Gang, I'm new here.
I have a machine running a GA-7DXE mobo and a AMD XP2200+ CPU running XP Pro. Until recently I was running a GeForce 2 MX400/64 in it. Then it started to give me errors on start-up, a blue screen saying: "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. The problem seems to be caused by the following file: nv4_disp." And the error message went on to say it could be cause by faulty hardware or a corrupt file and then gave a bunch of hexadecimal bull****. (Which I wrote down). Hitting the reset button would most times fix it so I un-installed the drivers and re-installed them. Same problem, every second or third cold-boot I got this message. I did the thourough checkdisk thing and the HDD is fine, even ran a diagnostic on the drive. OK, so I tried different detonator drivers, several in fact. Still the same intermittent error on boot-up. Hardware getting flakey thinks I so I borrowed a friends credit card (I'm poor) and went out and bought me a nice new Leadtek Winfast A280-LE-TDH GeForce 4 ti4200/128Mb MyVIVO. I installed it and used the drivers on the disk that came with it. Two days later...... Same problem!!! I went to Leadtek's site and downloaded the latest drivers for my card and installed those but the problem persists. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I've tried everything I can think of to fix it but have got nowhere. Any and all help appreciated. -- ~misfit~ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.500 / Virus Database: 298 - Release Date: 10/07/2003 |
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To be quite honest. I think that I would need more information to make a
educated guess as to your problem. Please provide a more detail system specs to be able to have us fix your problem -- Thanks Kenneth E. Spress www.blackandsilver.org RUID # 0462790 Shop and save money with one click http://www.acnmall.com/sirduron Interested in a user friendly ISP that costs less Try ACN Internet http://www.acninc.net/dialuplocations.asp?details=us http://www.acninc.net/innerwindow.as...signupinfo.asp "~misfit~" wrote in message ... Hi Gang, I'm new here. I have a machine running a GA-7DXE mobo and a AMD XP2200+ CPU running XP Pro. Until recently I was running a GeForce 2 MX400/64 in it. Then it started to give me errors on start-up, a blue screen saying: "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. The problem seems to be caused by the following file: nv4_disp." And the error message went on to say it could be cause by faulty hardware or a corrupt file and then gave a bunch of hexadecimal bull****. (Which I wrote down). Hitting the reset button would most times fix it so I un-installed the drivers and re-installed them. Same problem, every second or third cold-boot I got this message. I did the thourough checkdisk thing and the HDD is fine, even ran a diagnostic on the drive. OK, so I tried different detonator drivers, several in fact. Still the same intermittent error on boot-up. Hardware getting flakey thinks I so I borrowed a friends credit card (I'm poor) and went out and bought me a nice new Leadtek Winfast A280-LE-TDH GeForce 4 ti4200/128Mb MyVIVO. I installed it and used the drivers on the disk that came with it. Two days later...... Same problem!!! I went to Leadtek's site and downloaded the latest drivers for my card and installed those but the problem persists. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I've tried everything I can think of to fix it but have got nowhere. Any and all help appreciated. -- ~misfit~ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.500 / Virus Database: 298 - Release Date: 10/07/2003 |
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"Kenneth E. Spress" wrote in message ... To be quite honest. I think that I would need more information to make a educated guess as to your problem. Please provide a more detail system specs to be able to have us fix your problem OK. As I've stated in another reply, my PSU is only 250W but is only running the mobo. All drives and fans are run from an external PSU. Three fans... See my reply to Ron as to temps and cooling. Gigabyte GA-7DXE Athlon XP1800+ T'bred B with the l3 and l5 bridges cut to set the multiplier to 13.5 therefore running as an XP2200+ One stick 256Mb PC2100 RAM Running 133FSB, 75AGP bus and 33PCI bus. Win XP Pro, no service pack. Drives: (Run from external PSU) One 1.44Mb foppy Two HDD, one Maxtor ATA133, 7,200rpm 20gig, one Seagate ATA66 5,400 16gig AOpen 52x24x52 CD writer Lite-On 52x CD reader Internal cards: One 3Com 10/100 ethernet card Previously mentioned Leadtek GF 4 4200 (30513 driver, latest from Leadtek) If you need to know anything else let me know. Cheers, -- ~misfit~ Thanks Kenneth E. Spress www.blackandsilver.org RUID # 0462790 Shop and save money with one click http://www.acnmall.com/sirduron Interested in a user friendly ISP that costs less Try ACN Internet http://www.acninc.net/dialuplocations.asp?details=us http://www.acninc.net/innerwindow.as...signupinfo.asp "~misfit~" wrote in message ... Hi Gang, I'm new here. I have a machine running a GA-7DXE mobo and a AMD XP2200+ CPU running XP Pro. Until recently I was running a GeForce 2 MX400/64 in it. Then it started to give me errors on start-up, a blue screen saying: "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. The problem seems to be caused by the following file: nv4_disp." And the error message went on to say it could be cause by faulty hardware or a corrupt file and then gave a bunch of hexadecimal bull****. (Which I wrote down). Hitting the reset button would most times fix it so I un-installed the drivers and re-installed them. Same problem, every second or third cold-boot I got this message. I did the thourough checkdisk thing and the HDD is fine, even ran a diagnostic on the drive. OK, so I tried different detonator drivers, several in fact. Still the same intermittent error on boot-up. Hardware getting flakey thinks I so I borrowed a friends credit card (I'm poor) and went out and bought me a nice new Leadtek Winfast A280-LE-TDH GeForce 4 ti4200/128Mb MyVIVO. I installed it and used the drivers on the disk that came with it. Two days later...... Same problem!!! I went to Leadtek's site and downloaded the latest drivers for my card and installed those but the problem persists. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I've tried everything I can think of to fix it but have got nowhere. Any and all help appreciated. -- ~misfit~ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.500 / Virus Database: 298 - Release Date: 10/07/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.500 / Virus Database: 298 - Release Date: 10/07/2003 |
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"Roger" wrote in message ... "~misfit~" wrote in message ... Hi Gang, I'm new here. I have a machine running a GA-7DXE mobo and a AMD XP2200+ CPU running XP Pro. Until recently I was running a GeForce 2 MX400/64 in it. Then it started to give me errors on start-up, a blue screen saying: "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. The problem seems to be caused by the following file: nv4_disp." And the error message went on to say it could be cause by faulty hardware or a corrupt file and then gave a bunch of hexadecimal bull****. (Which I wrote down). Hitting the reset button would most times fix it so I un-installed the drivers and re-installed them. Same problem, every second or third cold-boot I got this message. I did the thourough checkdisk thing and the HDD is fine, even ran a diagnostic on the drive. OK, so I tried different detonator drivers, several in fact. Still the same intermittent error on boot-up. Hardware getting flakey thinks I so I borrowed a friends credit card (I'm poor) and went out and bought me a nice new Leadtek Winfast A280-LE-TDH GeForce 4 ti4200/128Mb MyVIVO. I installed it and used the drivers on the disk that came with it. Two days later...... Same problem!!! I went to Leadtek's site and downloaded the latest drivers for my card and installed those but the problem persists. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I've tried everything I can think of to fix it but have got nowhere. Any and all help appreciated. -- ~misfit~ Looks like the dreaded infinite loop issue. It's going to cost you more money to fix it, unfortunately. It's probably either because you have an inadequate powersupply or you need a different motherboard that supplies a consistent voltage to the video card. You could also try taking the card back and getting a Radeon of some sort. Look up "infinite loop" issues through google and you should find lots of info on this problem. MBM5 (the latest build) reports my voltages as: +5v: 5.03v +12v: 12.19 +3.3v: 3.33v For other details see my other replies. (I should have put them all in one I guess - Doh!) I'm an nVidia fan, I don't really want a Radeon. Thanks for the reply. -- ~misfit~ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.500 / Virus Database: 298 - Release Date: 10/07/2003 |
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"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
- I had this problem with my system it is a hardware problem but it doesn`t always mean your hardware is faulty - based on my expierience of the infiinite loop problem which I have completed solved on my system my recommendations are to go into BIOS load the fail safe defaults (sometimes called load setup defaults). If the problem persists after setting the BIOS settings to their safest then one of your memory sticks has gone bad. In my case I had the problem with the bios fail safe settings then I swapped to another stick of ram and no longer had the problem. I tried the suspect stick of ram in another system and it wouldn`t POST then I rma`ed it and the replacement works. I also had the problem with the good sticks of ram when messing with the BIOS settings setting them to fail safe rules out this as a possible cause. Good Luck. One other important thing I forgot to mention is after load BIOS fail safe settings make sure to set the memory clock to exactly the same fsb as your CPU is running - usually BIOS fail safe will set the ram to SPD which is automatic so if you had PC2700 in a system with a 133 CPU fsb the ram would be running out of sync with CPU at 166 - this can cause the infinite loop problem too. So load BIOS fail safe settings - set CPU & Memory in sync then start looking at new ram - I only had 1 ram stick but I suspect it could be more tricky to isolate with 2 or 3 sticks. |
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:01:19 +1200, "~misfit~"
wrotY: "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message ... "Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message - I had this problem with my system it is a hardware problem but it doesn`t always mean your hardware is faulty - based on my expierience of the infiinite loop problem which I have completed solved on my system my recommendations are to go into BIOS load the fail safe defaults (sometimes called load setup defaults). If the problem persists after setting the BIOS settings to their safest then one of your memory sticks has gone bad. In my case I had the problem with the bios fail safe settings then I swapped to another stick of ram and no longer had the problem. I tried the suspect stick of ram in another system and it wouldn`t POST then I rma`ed it and the replacement works. I also had the problem with the good sticks of ram when messing with the BIOS settings setting them to fail safe rules out this as a possible cause. Good Luck. One other important thing I forgot to mention is after load BIOS fail safe settings make sure to set the memory clock to exactly the same fsb as your CPU is running - usually BIOS fail safe will set the ram to SPD which is automatic so if you had PC2700 in a system with a 133 CPU fsb the ram would be running out of sync with CPU at 166 - this can cause the infinite loop problem too. So load BIOS fail safe settings - set CPU & Memory in sync then start looking at new ram - I only had 1 ram stick but I suspect it could be more tricky to isolate with 2 or 3 sticks. Thanks for the reply Nick, I'll try it out. -- ~misfit~ I had this problem with my GVRXP and GF2-MX400. I finally solved it by slightly boosting the memory voltage (+0.1 V) and the CPU voltage (+5%). The CPU is a Duron 1 GHz overclocked to 1.2 GHz. My RAM and FSB are asynchronous, BTW, - 166 MHz RAM, 133 MHz FSB. If you still have problems after pulling down the RAM try tweaking up the voltage a small amount. Worked great for me. Regards, Jerome 8) |
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