Win XP crash due to my graphics card

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Elemenop

I just upgraded to Win XP home edition after I had to buy
a new Harddrive. My older hdd has severe bad clusters and
is on its way out but Windows 2000 which is on it still
works for the moment. After installing Win XP on my new
hdd which was completely formated Ive noticed that any 3rd
game will crash. I have a geforce 4 ti 4200. In Windows
2000 I have no problems at all but with Win XP it would be
lucky to last 60 seconds without a bluescreen saying a
NV4*.dll has crashed my system and it needs to be
rebooted. I have tried installing at least 4 different
drivers and they all have the same problem. Is it because
Ive done a bad install of Win XP and I need to reinstall??
If I have to reinstall how does the authorisation get
restarted. Any help will be greatly appreciated. BTW Ive
sent the error report and it says that experts are working
on it??
 
Uninstall all software drivers for the card,reboot.
After reboot,open windows update,it has the drivers
for the card,let it install them.
 
I did that, I also relised that I didnt have dx9.0b
installed, which Ive now done, but now a new error has
occurred, so I checked the nvidia support faq and found
that my sound card is sharing the same IRQ as my gfx card,
I will attempt to change the sound cards IRQ and see if
that helps
 
I removed both my sblive card and my adsl modem card
because they both shared the same IRQ as my GFX card. The
problem still occured. So I decided to upgrade my bios and
still left the sb and adsl cards out and now it works
perfectly, NO CRASHES:). but I still have to try the cards
in different slots I spose incase the error reoccurs. Hope
this may help anyone if they have the same problem
 
Kelly said:
HI,
I had the same problem when downloading the supposed new
driver from the windows update. I finally went to nvidia
and got the XP driver for the card and all was well. When
Windows Update said I have a new driver for it, I didn't
install it. It screws it up! Somewhere during the windows
recent updates, it messes with that particular video card
for whatever reason and you need to go get the drivers
from nvidia.
Click to expand...

Ran into the exact same thing immediately after I installed KB823980.
Dl'd the NVIDIA new NVIDIA driver and all was well. Maybe a
coincidence but it seems likely that KB823980 MIGHT have been the
culprit 'cuz there were no problems I can recall prior to its
installation.

YMMV.
 
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