Blue screen of death! Need help...
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My brother called me over to see if I could fix his computer. It was BSOD + instant restart during boot, before Windows was even visible. I got it to boot up into safe mode, removed the video card driver, everything was fine. But as soon as I re-installed the latest driver from NVidia, it started blue-screening again, this time a minute or two after Windows booted. I tried installing an older version of the driver, but it still blue screened after Windows booted. I tried turning off hardware acceleration on the video card, and then I'd get BSOD'd about 10 minutes after booting into Windows. I couldn't keep the system running long enough to download & install antivirus software. What do you guys think -- video card gone bad? It's a older NVidia GeForce 440. Is it possible a virus is somehow corrupting the video driver? Any suggestions?
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Could be flawed memory in the shared video ram area. Try swapping the memory chips (if you can...) and see if the problem changes.
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I don't think so...if I remove the video card driver, it runs fine.
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Yeah, I was thinking that in VGA mode, the computer isn't sending nearly as much data, nor using the card's hardware, anywhere near as much as when you have the driver & video acceleration on. So in VGA mode, the card won't run as hot.
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Yeah, I was thinking that in VGA mode, the computer isn't sending nearly as much data, nor using the card's hardware, anywhere near as much as when you have the driver & video acceleration on. So in VGA mode, the card won't run as hot.
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Interesting, thanks.
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Interesting. But does that explain the fact that when the video card driver is uninstalled, it works fine?
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It could. Perhaps with the driver installed the bad RAM was being used for a task critical to system stability.
Steve
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It could. Perhaps with the driver installed the bad RAM was being used for a task critical to system stability.
Steve
Interesting, I would've thought of that. I've given him some new RAM to install (had 1GB of old stuff sitting in a box), so maybe that will solve it. Hope so. :-p Thanks.
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My brother called me over to see if I could fix his computer. It was BSOD + instant restart during boot, before Windows was even visible. I got it to boot up into safe mode, removed the video card driver, everything was fine. But as soon as I re-installed the latest driver from NVidia, it started blue-screening again, this time a minute or two after Windows booted. I tried installing an older version of the driver, but it still blue screened after Windows booted. I tried turning off hardware acceleration on the video card, and then I'd get BSOD'd about 10 minutes after booting into Windows. I couldn't keep the system running long enough to download & install antivirus software. What do you guys think -- video card gone bad? It's a older NVidia GeForce 440. Is it possible a virus is somehow corrupting the video driver? Any suggestions?
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: God-as-Judge, God-as-Forgiver The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango
Some questions: 1) Has the PC ever run without BSODing? 2) If so, what has changed? 3) If you have changed nothing then something else has: i) Hardware failure. Can be anything. ii) Corrupted driver (sys file) In any case, set the PC to do a kernel memory dump. (it will be called memory.dmp in the windows dir). Get this file off the POC and onto another where you have windbg.exe installed. Open this dump file from windbg then look at what the crash was, what caused it, what was in the stack (!analyze -v) what was loaded (.lm kv), what the thread was (!thread). Look at the error code, google it and lok in the help file of windbg for info on it. Look for suspicious non microsoft sys files loaded, look at the active module in the current thread, look at what is in the stack, and what the analyser thinks caused the error.
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Interesting, I would've thought of that. I've given him some new RAM to install (had 1GB of old stuff sitting in a box), so maybe that will solve it. Hope so. :-p Thanks.
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Interesting, thanks.
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Did you figure it out, Judah?
Regards, Nish
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Did you figure it out, Judah?
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blogNot yet. He hasn't installed the RAM yet.
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My brother called me over to see if I could fix his computer. It was BSOD + instant restart during boot, before Windows was even visible. I got it to boot up into safe mode, removed the video card driver, everything was fine. But as soon as I re-installed the latest driver from NVidia, it started blue-screening again, this time a minute or two after Windows booted. I tried installing an older version of the driver, but it still blue screened after Windows booted. I tried turning off hardware acceleration on the video card, and then I'd get BSOD'd about 10 minutes after booting into Windows. I couldn't keep the system running long enough to download & install antivirus software. What do you guys think -- video card gone bad? It's a older NVidia GeForce 440. Is it possible a virus is somehow corrupting the video driver? Any suggestions?
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: God-as-Judge, God-as-Forgiver The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango
Sounds similar to an issue I had. It turned out to be the power supply - not enough juice, particularly when the video card etc. start working harder, as they would with the right drivers. In particular, have you added anything else recently ... a HDD perhaps. o it could just be old. My PC's power consumption went up by 75 watts when I replaced the PS with one that was more capable. Never had another BSOD since. It just wasn't up to the task.
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