Who has a clue what "nvidesm" is?

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My old Abit via 333 board PC keeps freezing and in the event viewer I
see an error with this nvidesm. Says corrupt data structure.
Looked it up and its mentioned a lot but theres no clear reference to
what it is.
 
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My old Abit via 333 board PC keeps freezing and in the event viewer I
see an error with this nvidesm. Says corrupt data structure.
Looked it up and its mentioned a lot but theres no clear reference to
what it is.
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Do you have an N-Vidia graphics card?





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Do you have an N-Vidia graphics card?
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Yeah that was my first guess but then when I did a search online it
was mentioned with lots of stuff so now I havent a clue as to what it
really is. Have you heard it mentioned specifically in regards to the
nvidia graphics card driver?
 
[email protected] said:
My old Abit via 333 board PC keeps freezing and in the event viewer I
see an error with this nvidesm. Says corrupt data structure.
Looked it up and its mentioned a lot but theres no clear reference to
what it is.
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It seems to be a component of the nForce chip on your mainboard;
specifically one that controlls the IDE port. I would reinstall the correct
chipset drivers from nvidia.

Jon
 
It seems to be a component of the nForce chip on your mainboard;
specifically one that controlls the IDE port. I would reinstall the correct
chipset drivers from nvidia.

Jon
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Now that interesting since I would suspect that too. However Im using
an old VIA chipset board. The interesting thing here is I MOVED my
hard disk with WIN XP which was used on a nforce2 board. So that seems
to imply I still have the drivers right? The thing there is I
UNINSTALLED all the old drivers and reinstalled the old VIA stuff so
that it would work with it.

It could be that its all screwed up and not everything was
uninstalled. correctly.

Frankly Ive got to do a new reinstall anyway when my new AMD 64 system
gets up and running and I use this same HD on THAT system ! I dont
want to take a chance of just plopping it into 3 different systems and
have it all messed up.
 
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Now that interesting since I would suspect that too. However Im using
an old VIA chipset board. The interesting thing here is I MOVED my
hard disk with WIN XP which was used on a nforce2 board. So that seems
to imply I still have the drivers right? The thing there is I
UNINSTALLED all the old drivers and reinstalled the old VIA stuff so
that it would work with it.

It could be that its all screwed up and not everything was
uninstalled. correctly.
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You might be able to get by with uninstalling the IDE controllers in Device
Manager, and making sure that there are no pointers to the old nVidia
drivers in your registry or your services (if it is run as a service).

Next step up would be a repair install. Personally, I'd try the first
option and see if it rectified the situation, but you'd be well advised to
research this more and *at the very least* have a full backup before you do
anything..

Jon
 
Next step up would be a repair install. Personally, I'd try the first
option and see if it rectified the situation, but you'd be well advised to
research this more and *at the very least* have a full backup before you do
anything..

Jon
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Yeah I was thinking about that but then I decide to just install my
second PCs HD that had WN XP on it to test it out and use my other
WINXP HD from the PC I sold as a second HD and it works fine so that
implies that it was the WIN XP HD install on the second HD.

At first I thought it was a hardware problem. I really need a second
HD. If I was smart I would create a small partition just for the OS on
my 200 gig around 20-40 gigs for WIN XP and then buy a 60-80 gig just
to have it lying around to back up data etc everytime I had to
reinstall.
 
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