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A few problems here. BsOD's and Crashes

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Old 09-21-2005
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A few problems here. BsOD's and Crashes

Hello,

Iv recenntly jsut formatted my computer installed all my stuff, firewall(sygate pro),anti virus(nod32 administration version)

im running Windows XP SP2, Nvidia MX420(piece of ****) some old motherboard,
AMD 800mhz CPU
384MB RAM(x3 128's)
I know i have to upgrade just dont have the money atm but no reason why this system cant run Counter Strike 1.6 via Steam. I get random crashes and its happening more and more then ill get a Blue screen of death either saying nv4_disp.dll(nvidia Main DLL, im guessing the latest drivers arnt so good for my card, maby i should get older drivers that are more my cards time), or kmixer.sys(audio i belive)


What to do

Help will be greatly appreciated
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Old 09-24-2005
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Hi
For starters, I would never run any driver past 43.45 on any gf2/3/4 card, no matter what anyone tells you. The drivers I have found best for those types of vid cards are: 30.82, 40.72, 41.09, and 43.45. Secondly, what type of audio hardware do you have?
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Old 09-24-2005
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Creative AWE64 16-bit AUDIO




Im running 41.09 atm still experiencing proplems :S

does the 30.XX drivers support OpenGL?

Last edited by Soil; 09-24-2005 at 02:01 PM..
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Old 09-24-2005
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Yeah, the 30 series supports ogl, think all of the nvid drivers support it as ogl is nvids claim to fame.
If that's a via chipset mobo, are you running 4n1s from via or from the xp install disk? I prefer the ones that come with xp as they have been whql'd.
Keep at it.
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Old 09-25-2005
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ah the driver that came with win XP sp2 sucked so bad. couldent run Medal of honor series, dident support openGL .. and couldent run CS in openGL either :P

as soon as i got 41.09 i could run the games with openGL.

Thanks for your helping btw

and iv had NTFS.sys BSOD twice .. wasent in game i was jsut on desktop.. i thorught that was kinda strange since ihad jsut formatted.
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