re: BSOD, win32k.sys
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at 8:59 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Baron French
(1 messages posted)
I have a Nvidia card and XP SP2. I have done masses of research on the problem with
BSOD and Nvidia and SP2. Simply put, SP2 is extremely strict when it comes to drivers
and will not let anything untoward happen to your system. Nvidia, unfortunately,
have some of the sloppiest written drivers out there. Quite simply, Nvidia drivers
don't work under SP2. The most common solution I found was people uninstalled SP2,
or if like me you need SP2 for certain apps, you buy a non-Nvidia based card. I'm
off to buy an ATI All-In-Wonder 9600 card after work. I searched the web and it
seems to work well under XP SP2.
On Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 2:55 pm, greg madon wrote:
>So I cleaned out the entire comp as best as I could with a combination
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>of cotton swabs, paper towel, towel, and breath. Then I went ahead and
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>removed Sound Card, some other card or modem, unplugged CD writtable,
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>and reseated the video card and one of the RAM sticks.
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>So I powered the bloody thing, and it actually turned on pretty quick,
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>as opposed to not outputting anything at all. It showed some wrong
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>reading of my CPU (like 630, when the right one should be 950) and RAM
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>(some 756MB instead of 1G), but actually LET me into the blasted desktop
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>with astounding speed. Showed a lotta Found New Hardware crap, but I
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>canceled all that. Ran a DX Diag, CPU was wrong still, but fixed RAM
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>reading.
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>THEN I BLOODY HEELLLLLLLL LET SHUT IT DOWN BECAUZE I WAS WORRIED ABOUT
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>THE *%% CPU READING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND IT NEVER LET ME INTO
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>THE DESKTOP AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN AGAIn AGain again! Only way it
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>could get to the bloody desktop was by turning L Caches off and logging
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>into Safe Mode, which was back to the same acursed problem I had before.
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>Did a lotta RAM switching and it just wasn't right, every time I had to
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>clear CMOS after crashing for it to boot again. Anyways, I installed
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>some basic video/sound drivers and could boot into NOrmal windows, but
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>it was so tediously slow that I concluded it must be my CPU that's
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>faulty. How the heck am I supposed to play Warcraft ever agian...I was
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>hoping to do some nice PvP action on it...
- Written in response to:
- re: BSOD, win32k.sys (greggg: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 2:55 pm)
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