re: BSOD, win32k.sys
Sunday, August 14, 2005 at 6:59 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by greggg
(6 messages posted)
I got this problem with nv4_disp some months ago after buying a geforce FX5500 to
meet requisites for a
game i recently got. After updating my operating system (xp sp2), it miraculously
fixed the problem,
probably cuz it fixed the faulty DirectX that I think I had previously (since DX
is uninstallable...).
Then coupla weeks back, I had to download this newer patch for my game, which i think
resulted in a
BSOD. I responded by updating to the latest nvidia driver, which fixed it for about
the next two times
i logged on. Then it got bad again, with win32k.sys BSOD and such, so i had to log
in Safe mode and
revert to an older video driver, which made some difference, but still interrupted
with BSOD sometimes
because I just clicked on the desktop. Last time I got into windows for more than
20 secs was when I
opened Realplayer to watch House of Flying Daggers that I never finished.
Then the problem deteriorated from instant rebooting because the blue screen cuts
in to windows with
many STOP errors,PAGED_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA; DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL; nv4_disp.dll;
win32k.sys;
win32k.sys etc before I get the time even to open the control panel until the point
where it couldn't
load windows because a certain winnt\system32\config\system file was corrupt (so
it told me).
Then I decided to install a whole new OS, but it crashed halfway thru installation.
So i flipped thru some troubleshoots and, after testing several times, finally found
that disabling L1
and L2 Cache in the Setup menu before Windows is loaded. This, while not crashing,
reduced proccessing
to a tedious rate so that installing that bloody operating system took about literally
half a day (plus
some 10+hrs because i got impatient and turned my comp off before it completed OS
installation setup,
resulting in my starting over again).
It didn't get any better with that new Operating system. Still that BSOD but now
consistently with
PAGED_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA and STOP 0x050 plus problem with this darn acpi.sys
I'm typing this with my old Compaq comp that I dug out of my attic somewhere, and
it only has 200mhz cpu
(as opposed to 900mhz of my broken comp) with 100mb RAM (1G DDRAM) and 1mb graphic
memory (128mb).
Really now, if I don't solve this cursed problem, i'm gonna burst. I do wanna get
back to my Warcraft
game...I am almost adamant in the belief that this was due to my recent installation
of nvidia drivers,
which wasn't what i was supposed to download, mind you, because my video card was
actually PNY Verto
made, so i actually shoulda downloaded from pny.com--any of you think that could
be the cause? In any
case, I can't fix it now, since everytime i start windows, BSOD cuts in and my comp
automatically
restarts in a continuous cycle, and I am only able to log on to my second OS in safe
mode with L1 and L2
cache disabled, which makes it extremely slow...also could be overheating, cpu's
about 160F last time I
checked. Anyways, gonna test the whole nine yards next week, overheat, clean, memory,
the works.
- Written in response to:
- BSOD, win32k.sys (ed: Friday, September 6, 2002 at 5:38 am)
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 |  | | | | |  | Confused (Adri1456: Fri, May 14, 2004, 3:29 pm) |
| | | | | |  | Crash (greine12: Tue, Apr 6, 2004, 4:57 pm) |
| | | | | | | | | re: Crash (MadMan: Sat, Apr 10, 2004, 1:19 pm) |
|  | re: BSOD, win32k.sys (greggg: Sun, Aug 14, 2005, 6:59 pm) |
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