re: SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Win XP
Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 12:45 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by David K
(1 messages posted)
Hello everyone reading this thread,
Hopefully you have not killed anyone or destroyed any expensive things around the
house while troubleshooting this problem.
Microsoft seems to love using the same error message for 10 million different scenarios,
although this one seems to be hardware related.
Here's my story:
Dell E510, Win XP SP2, 4GB RAM, Pentium D 2.8mhz dual core; running for the last
1 year no probs. I have an ATI Radeon 256MB video card with 2 screens, and added
an old NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 32MB card to have a 3rd monitor. It worked for a while and
after updating some windows drivers, it just stopped working.
I decided to re-install the NVIDIA drivers (a 2004 53.xx version to support my older
card). The PC booted but in Device Manager the NVIDIA still showed as Device Cannot
Start (Code 10)
The PC booted on the NVIDIA, includng the Windows XP logo, then once the logon screen
came on, it would switch to my ATI and my other 2 screens would work but the first
one, on the NVIDIA now stopped working now that XP booted its GUI.
So I went to BIOS and changed the video startup setting from Auto to PEG, which forced
the boot on the ATI in the PEG slot. This is when the blue screen with the SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
stop error 0x0000006F started to come on.
I was able to boot XP into safe mode w/networking under this condition, took out
the NVIDIA, and it no longer showed up in the drivers, but the PC kept doing the
blue screen on normal startup.
Solution after wasting 1.5 hours on dell support and hearing "why don't we reload
your system?" I got desperate and took out the ATI and put back in the NVIDIA. Sure
enough I booted up with a messed up looking GUI, went to device manager and the NVIDIA
was back in there! Uninstalled NVIDIA driver from Device Manager, shut down, put
back in the ATI, and everything is back to normal - I still have 2 screens and I
don't know why this conflict is occuring, but some update I did on XP or some video
drivers made it impossible for XP to work with both video cards as it previously
had.
In retrospect I should have booted safe mode with the NVIDIA and uninstalled the
NVIDIA driver first, and I could have avoided doing the hardware swap, but it's interesting
that even though the driver was installed Device Manager only showed it in there
when the card was present; otherwise there was no way to tell if the driver is installed.
(Dell support said since it's not in Device Manager it is uninstalled, but I don't
believe in magic)
Anyway just my $0.02 on another side of this problem that I have not seen anywhere
else on the net with these symptoms.
Now I need to find a video card that will work with my ATI, probably another ATI
should do...
Happy troubleshooting!
- David
On Saturday, January 20, 2007 at 11:21 am, cssilver wrote:
>After reading the threads I booted in my cd-rom instead of my dvd-writer. Problem
>solved. Who knows maybe the dvd-writers optical is dirtty
http://www.davidkhaykin.com/
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