Video Adapter Driver Issues

[madchemist200]

I have an eMachine T3265 w/an AMD 3200 running Windows XP with an nVidia Gforce 4 graphics card. I constantly get a

STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER

blue screen, when I do just about anything. I can't listen to music, play vidoes, let alone games and I can't even update Windows anymore. Windows indicates that the problem is cause by a bad Video adpater driver stuck in an endless loop. I have followed their recommendation and updated the nVidia driver to no avail, I have replaced the RAM and run a memory utility and it checks out. Ran a virus-scan and no viruses. Cleaned the registry etc etc. I suspect the video card may be faulty, but before I go an buy a new one I was wondering if there is anything else that may be causing the problem. Let me know what you think.

Thanks
Luke

 

[Rik]

You could try running scandisk to see if you have any minor hard drive errors.

Have you tried running dxdiag to see what that says?

 

[Tedster]

check your PSU. Emachines are total crap computers. Notorious for faulty and cheap components. PSU failure is very common.