Hello there,
I made a post in the Windows section some months ago about my comp crashing all the time - back then I thought that my corrupted 2nd hard disk was the cause but turns out it wasn't. I removed it and my computer still crashes. So now I was able to narrow it down to a video problem. But before I go on please sift through my previous thread so you know what's going on with my comp:
https://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?p=282404#post282404
Ok, so this is what happens now. When I unistall all nvidia drivers and Windows replaces it with its own my computer does not reboot anymore! It is able to play all videos, flash animations and so on. However the display is pretty poor as motions are very jerky. (e.g. scrolling is very unsmooth) To figure out what exactly the problem with my nvidia card is I found the following post by someone who seems to have the exaxct same issues and like me, is not able to fix them:
http://www.infopackets.com/channels/en/windows/gazette/2002/20020910_windows_xp_crashes_with_my_nvidia_geforce_mx_400_video_card.htm
This made me real concerned as the guy has the same video card and the same OS than me. So what makes the system so unstable? Well, I figure I change the hardware acceleration - but nope, doesn't change anything. So I figure I roll back DirectX to the original 8.1 and see what happens. DirectX happy uninstall did the job but nope, my comp still reboots. So I figure I remove the video card and go back to only using my integrated graphics controller (Intel 82815) - what happens? Right, the comp still crashes. Ok, so I have this other video card, an old Nvidia RIVA TNT 2 and I get that installed. But you guess right - my computer still has its problem! But funnily enough, if I uninstall the driver again and have the card show up with a yellow alert in the device manager (just like I did earlier with the GeForce) the comp stops rebooting! So what the heck is this? I've really run out of ideas and what I can do to fix the situation...I'm pretty desperate! What baffles me is that I re-installed Windows just recently so it's not cluttered with anything and anyways, the crashes happened before the reinstallation too. Now it's just VERY frequent.
One more note - as you can see from my first thread disabling the reboot feature does not prevent my crashes. I do not get any BSODs and I also have no mini-dumps filed anywhere. The only alerts I find that may be related to my video problem are in the application log and refer to VLC player and Firefox. Check these out:
Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.8.0.0, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00000001.
Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.8.0.0, faulting module libpacketizer_h264_plugin.dll, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00002b43.
Faulting application firefox.exe, version 1.8.20060.50817, faulting module nppl3260.dll, version 6.0.11.2321, fault address 0x00004341.
Does this help? I would appreciate any feeback and suggestions! Thanks,
Dennis
I made a post in the Windows section some months ago about my comp crashing all the time - back then I thought that my corrupted 2nd hard disk was the cause but turns out it wasn't. I removed it and my computer still crashes. So now I was able to narrow it down to a video problem. But before I go on please sift through my previous thread so you know what's going on with my comp:
https://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?p=282404#post282404
Ok, so this is what happens now. When I unistall all nvidia drivers and Windows replaces it with its own my computer does not reboot anymore! It is able to play all videos, flash animations and so on. However the display is pretty poor as motions are very jerky. (e.g. scrolling is very unsmooth) To figure out what exactly the problem with my nvidia card is I found the following post by someone who seems to have the exaxct same issues and like me, is not able to fix them:
http://www.infopackets.com/channels/en/windows/gazette/2002/20020910_windows_xp_crashes_with_my_nvidia_geforce_mx_400_video_card.htm
This made me real concerned as the guy has the same video card and the same OS than me. So what makes the system so unstable? Well, I figure I change the hardware acceleration - but nope, doesn't change anything. So I figure I roll back DirectX to the original 8.1 and see what happens. DirectX happy uninstall did the job but nope, my comp still reboots. So I figure I remove the video card and go back to only using my integrated graphics controller (Intel 82815) - what happens? Right, the comp still crashes. Ok, so I have this other video card, an old Nvidia RIVA TNT 2 and I get that installed. But you guess right - my computer still has its problem! But funnily enough, if I uninstall the driver again and have the card show up with a yellow alert in the device manager (just like I did earlier with the GeForce) the comp stops rebooting! So what the heck is this? I've really run out of ideas and what I can do to fix the situation...I'm pretty desperate! What baffles me is that I re-installed Windows just recently so it's not cluttered with anything and anyways, the crashes happened before the reinstallation too. Now it's just VERY frequent.
One more note - as you can see from my first thread disabling the reboot feature does not prevent my crashes. I do not get any BSODs and I also have no mini-dumps filed anywhere. The only alerts I find that may be related to my video problem are in the application log and refer to VLC player and Firefox. Check these out:
Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.8.0.0, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00000001.
Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.8.0.0, faulting module libpacketizer_h264_plugin.dll, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00002b43.
Faulting application firefox.exe, version 1.8.20060.50817, faulting module nppl3260.dll, version 6.0.11.2321, fault address 0x00004341.
Does this help? I would appreciate any feeback and suggestions! Thanks,
Dennis
