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| 245410 | 2004-06-17 08:40:00 | Hi, I have recently started to get an error on cold boot, once again on the system i am cleaning out, not mine. Anyway it seems to only happen on cold boot, i thought it was a case of just updating the display dirivers, however, I installed the latest ones today and rebooted just now and again got the same error. I have put sp1 on here, about the only major thing apart from cleaning "out" all the rubbish. O.S win xp home, hp pavilion 8905, NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64, 128mb ram (soon to be 256mb ram), 1 ghz amd duron, 20 gig hdd. The error i get is saying: Ms detected possible device failure: The driver for the display device was unable to complete a drawing operation. Please check for driver update. Gives me an error signature if that is of any help? (Which seems to point to display drivers too). Error Signature: szAppName: Drivers.Display szAppVer:10DE002D1502211043 szModName:nv4_disp.dll szModVer: 6.14.10.5656 Offset: F8C406EA Anybody got any ideas? As i said, i presumed the display drivers just needed updating? maybe not being compatible with sp1 or something? Anyway the old drivers weren't working either obviously?? So theres no point reinstalling them is there? TIA |
J ZEP (336) | ||
| 245411 | 2004-06-17 09:25:00 | Yes you are correct, although I'd have to say there may be 2 solutions to your problem... 1) You may be quite correct in saying that the drivers need updating. I would say the latest, which is available here (www.nvidia.com) will probably put your troubles to rest. If the latest driver doesn't fix the problem. try one of the older driver versions (prior to the one you've previously installed which is 56.56). You can find them in the nVidia driver archive. (www.nvidia.com) 2) It is also quite possible that there may be a RAM issue, the latest drivers require more and more memory when loading, so it may simply be a case of Windows not having enough resources... as you may or may not know XP is quite a hungry brute when it comes to RAM.... If the driver update doesn't work then I would try a memory upgrade and to be on the safe side I would go for 512MB. Hope that helps cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 245412 | 2004-06-17 10:04:00 | > 1) You may be quite correct in saying that the drivers need updating. I would say the latest, which is available here (www.nvidia.com) will probably put your troubles to rest. > 2) It is also quite possible that there may be a RAM issue, the latest drivers require more and more memory when loading. Thanks Chiefnz - i am already in the process of downloading the latest drivers(v56.72), only reason i went for the 56.56v is i had them on cd (saved waiting for a download on my slow dialup), so i too am hoping they will work o.k. Thing i don't understand is, if it is a ram issue, with relation to "new" drivers needing more resources, why the original ones suddenly stopped - they were the ones that came installed with the system (dated back to 2001). Anyway fingers crossed the latest ones will work ;-) and if its ram related :-( the ram arrives to go in tomorrow hopefully, however she could only afford to upgrade to 256mb from her current 128mb - hopefully that does the trick ;-) . And if these latest drivers don't fix it, i will take your advice and try some older ones again then :-). Thanks :-) |
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