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Long story short and I'll try to make this as clear as I can: Last night I am playing Command & Conquer 3 that I have done so many times before. Suddenly my screen freezes in midgame (never happened before playing games or any other time ever) and the screen shows multiple artifacts. Temps were fine I might add.
Eventually I am able to move on but the screen resolution goes from 1920x1080 (which is the standard resolution for my new Samsung Monitor) to 800x600. it never Blue Screens but I did get the information on screen from Windows that the error code is 0xEA: THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER
A device driver problem has caused the system to pause indefinitely (hang). Typically, this is caused by a display driver waiting for the video hardware to enter an idle state. This might indicate a hardware problem with the video adapter, or a faulty video driver.
The driver specifically cited is nv4_disp.sys which is an Nvidia display driver.
The display driver isn't my main issue. I'll attempt to update the drivers later in hope that my video card isn't failing. My issue is with the folders in the Windows Folder in the C drive when I went to retrieve the minidump. There are folders there that I have never seen before. Except for two all are designated as $NtUninstall followed by a series of numbers and letters (and below them are the standard folders you would expect). Each of these new folders contains OS drivers.
What is really strange is that my Minidump folder contains no dump file. But if I do a search for minidump it finds it, there is a minidump file, but it is grayed out. And when I try to read it it says I have no administrative rights.
Right now the card seems to running fine but what to do with these folders? Sorry I could be more clear.
Eventually I am able to move on but the screen resolution goes from 1920x1080 (which is the standard resolution for my new Samsung Monitor) to 800x600. it never Blue Screens but I did get the information on screen from Windows that the error code is 0xEA: THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER
A device driver problem has caused the system to pause indefinitely (hang). Typically, this is caused by a display driver waiting for the video hardware to enter an idle state. This might indicate a hardware problem with the video adapter, or a faulty video driver.
The driver specifically cited is nv4_disp.sys which is an Nvidia display driver.
The display driver isn't my main issue. I'll attempt to update the drivers later in hope that my video card isn't failing. My issue is with the folders in the Windows Folder in the C drive when I went to retrieve the minidump. There are folders there that I have never seen before. Except for two all are designated as $NtUninstall followed by a series of numbers and letters (and below them are the standard folders you would expect). Each of these new folders contains OS drivers.
What is really strange is that my Minidump folder contains no dump file. But if I do a search for minidump it finds it, there is a minidump file, but it is grayed out. And when I try to read it it says I have no administrative rights.
Right now the card seems to running fine but what to do with these folders? Sorry I could be more clear.