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Title: blue screen
Post by: faded on October 09, 2007, 10:59:06 PM

First off I have dug around the forum for info and cant pinpoint my problem

I'm running a
P4 2.4
1 gig ram
nividia 6200 (with the latest 163.71 drivers)

when I run AH I get the Blue screen saying the driver is stuck in an infinite loop and the file responsible is nv4_disp. Sometimes it locks up right away other times it takes awhile. Gpu temp stays 115-118 f  that's about 47-48 c (I think).
After I hard boot I get an error message( A display device was unable to complete a drawing operation)

I can play other games for hours with no problem.

Title: blue screen
Post by: Skuzzy on October 10, 2007, 06:38:16 AM

Sounds like a bad driver installation.  Or the previous driver was not removed before the installation of the current driver.

Just remember this,  Newer is not always better as it pertains to video drivers.  NVidia and ATI/AMD are both guilty of catering to the top 10 game titles in thier drivers which can introduce problems for other games.

Title: blue screen
Post by: faded on October 10, 2007, 07:31:37 PM

thanks for ur reply skuzzy.....
Any reccomendations on drivers and also uninstalling the old ones is it better to use control panel or device manager..

Title: blue screen
Post by: faded on October 10, 2007, 07:41:54 PM

Oh boy.. I just looking at the driver issue and realized that I downloaded and installed the new international instead of the us drivers... I bet that has something to do with it lol

Title: blue screen
Post by: Skuzzy on October 11, 2007, 06:50:57 AM

That could casue some rather bizarre issues.  DriverCleaner seems to be the choice software utility to purge a computer of its drivers.

Title: blue screen
Post by: faded on October 11, 2007, 06:25:18 PM

After uninstalling and reinstalling the correct drivers. I got a different error saying nv4_dll file was responsible for the instability. I noticed  after uninstalling again this file remained in system 32 folder. I tryed to delete it but it would reappear after 3-4 seconds (?). so I renamed it reinstalled the correct drivers. I was on last night 3-4 hours without a hitch. For an old rig it runs AH pretty good.But I think for 10 bucks I'll run the drivercleaner also.

  Thanks for the help

      Faded