Unable to install graphic drivers - K8-VMX

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Anna Daptor

Just got back from looking at a friends new PC - and I'm a bit lost as to
what might be the issue.



Its a Semperon 2600+ CPU on a Asus K8-VMX (VIA K8M800) motherboard



Windows XP SP2 was installed for them, but it wouldn't start up correctly
and rebooted halfway through startup - startup in Safe mode was fine
however.



After fiddling about for a while (including reseting BIOS) we decided to
reinstall Windows from scratch - that all went fine. Then the problems
started...



Trying to install the graphic drivers get up to 99% of the copying process
then the PC blue screens with a STOP 7f at 0,0,0,0 error. This is a crash
that seems to occur *before* the graphic drivers are actually installed and
activated.... but having not actualy seen if a reboot is needed for these
drivers in XP it might be occuring just as the drivers are actually
initialised...

Other drivers have installed fine - sound, modem, VIA 4-in-1 drivers. etc.



So, anyone have any suggestions? Without the graphic drivers installed the
system seems to work fine and there's no obvious hardware issues like memory
or so on.
 
"Anna Daptor" said:
Just got back from looking at a friends new PC - and I'm a bit lost as to
what might be the issue.



Its a Semperon 2600+ CPU on a Asus K8-VMX (VIA K8M800) motherboard



Windows XP SP2 was installed for them, but it wouldn't start up correctly
and rebooted halfway through startup - startup in Safe mode was fine
however.



After fiddling about for a while (including reseting BIOS) we decided to
reinstall Windows from scratch - that all went fine. Then the problems
started...



Trying to install the graphic drivers get up to 99% of the copying process
then the PC blue screens with a STOP 7f at 0,0,0,0 error. This is a crash
that seems to occur *before* the graphic drivers are actually installed and
activated.... but having not actualy seen if a reboot is needed for these
drivers in XP it might be occuring just as the drivers are actually
initialised...

Other drivers have installed fine - sound, modem, VIA 4-in-1 drivers. etc.



So, anyone have any suggestions? Without the graphic drivers installed the
system seems to work fine and there's no obvious hardware issues like memory
or so on.
Click to expand...

www.viaarena.com is the official VIA download site. You
can get a later driver for K8M800 there.

Paul
 
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