Help on FS2004 BSOD Please

[Ben Smith]

Hi all. I was wondering if anyone out there could help me out with this very
annoying problem I've been having since the beginning with my Flight
Simulator 2004. I have never been able to enjoy this game because of
constant BSOD and crashing to the desktop. I originally had an ATI Rage Fury
32 meg card with NO crashing in FS 2004 but no framerate or decent graphics
either so I changed to the ATI Radeon 7200 64 meg and then the BSOD started
happening so I change over to the NVidia FX 5200 128 meg card and still
crashes to desktop or BSOD usually pointing to nv4_disp.dll which, from what
I've been studying, points to the NVidia graphic card driver. I will post
below the complete BSOD message but first, my system specs:

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 and all recent updates from
Microsoft.
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ CPU at 1.54 Ghz (No overclocking) and latest VIA 4IN1
drivers.
A7V133-C Motherboard
Latest Award BIOS updates.
512 megs RAM memory PC 133
NVidia GeForce FX 5200 128 megs DDR (No overclocking) Latest Drivers from
NVidia website.
Creative SoundBlaster Live! Value soundcard (256 I believe) Latest drivers.
Maxtor 30 gig HD at 7200 RPM
300 watt powersupply
Original Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004

Error message at Blue Screen Of Death: (most of the time)

STOP 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0xBFA84A73, 0xF4905A70, 0x00000000)
*** nv4_disp.dll -Address BFA84A73 base at BF9B7000, DateStamp 3fb91f9b

Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete.

I would really appreciate if anyone could give me some input as to what this
error code is pointing to. I am guessing it surely has something to do with
the NVidia GeForce FX 5200 graphic card but this could it be that the last 3
graphics cards and my Flight Simulator 2004 don't get along well together or
is the problem running deeper than just this? Please remove the "nospam" in
the email address for email replys. Thank you very much for any input.

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi Ben,

Reinstall your nVidia drivers, and your VIA drivers as well.
Use the Via 4-1 Hyperion's from: http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=300

1. Before you update your drivers, I recommend that you install DirectX 9.0b*:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/9/c/c9c8a1d4-7690-4c98-baf3-0c67e7f3751f/dx90b_redist.exe

Here are the steps I recommend you use to update your driver. If you've
never done this before I recommend you also look over the Installation hints
and Release Notes both of which are linked to from their download page.

2. Download the latest driver v. 53.03 for your Nvidia Card Win XP/2000:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_53.03

Win98/Me: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_53.04 (yes, it's .04 not .03)

3. Save the .exe driver in My Documents\My Drivers\Nvidia 5303

4. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.

5. Click Start / (settings) Control Panel / System / Hardware
Device Manager / expand +Display Adapters / right click on
the adapter, pick "Uninstall", and click No if asked to reboot.

6. Use Control Panel / Add-Remove programs to uninstall the
previous driver (exe)software which may have been installed.

7. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.

8. If Windows prompts you to install the adapter, click "Cancel".

9. Double click the 53.03 driver we saved to My Documents\
Drivers\Geforce folder in step 3 to install.it. If it complains about
Windows Logo Certification just click "Continue". This is normal.

10. After you reboot, go to Control Panel / Display / Settings and
choose 32 bit Color Quality, and 1024x768 Screen Resolution.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

Test your drivers using DXDiag: Click Start / Run / type: DXDIAG
Click the "Test" buttons in the Display, Sound, Music & Network Tabs;
If any of the Display options are Disabled and you cannot Enable them,
your most likely solution would be to update your Chipset Drivers as per
my website: http://www3.sympatico.ca/nibblesnbits/Video.html#v11

Along with your Video card, Sound Cards, Motherboard Chipsets,
and Video Monitors may also require updated drivers. Even your
motherboard's BIOS may need to be updated for compatibility with
your Video card. These steps are listed at: http://NibblesNbitsVideo.tk

Perhaps the old Nvidia drivers did not completely uninstall. If that's the
case, use this utility to completely uninstall the drivers and go to step 7:
http://content.guru3d.com/index.php?page=detonatorrip&menu=0

The latest video drivers sometime don't work with a particular game.
(Check the Video suggestions in the readme.txt file in your game folder/CD)
If there's no suggestions, try an older (WHQL) driver, and/or if you still
experience problems try a Beta driver, or even an Omega driver instead:

BETA Drivers: http://download.guru3d.com/
OMEGA Drivers: http://www.omegacorner.com/

There you have it, if you have any questions feel free to post them!

--
Cheers,
Jimmy S.

Additional Support Resources: My Zone.com Helpsite: http://nibblesnbits.tk
Microsoft Online Tech Support: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=376
Game FAQ's: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
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| Hi all. I was wondering if anyone out there could help me out with this very
| annoying problem I've been having since the beginning with my Flight
| Simulator 2004. I have never been able to enjoy this game because of
| constant BSOD and crashing to the desktop. I originally had an ATI Rage Fury
| 32 meg card with NO crashing in FS 2004 but no framerate or decent graphics
| either so I changed to the ATI Radeon 7200 64 meg and then the BSOD started
| happening so I change over to the NVidia FX 5200 128 meg card and still
| crashes to desktop or BSOD usually pointing to nv4_disp.dll which, from what
| I've been studying, points to the NVidia graphic card driver. I will post
| below the complete BSOD message but first, my system specs:
|
| Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 and all recent updates from
| Microsoft.
| AMD Athlon XP 1800+ CPU at 1.54 Ghz (No overclocking) and latest VIA 4IN1
| drivers.
| A7V133-C Motherboard
| Latest Award BIOS updates.
| 512 megs RAM memory PC 133
| NVidia GeForce FX 5200 128 megs DDR (No overclocking) Latest Drivers from
| NVidia website.
| Creative SoundBlaster Live! Value soundcard (256 I believe) Latest drivers.
| Maxtor 30 gig HD at 7200 RPM
| 300 watt powersupply
| Original Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
|
| Error message at Blue Screen Of Death: (most of the time)
|
| STOP 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0xBFA84A73, 0xF4905A70, 0x00000000)
| *** nv4_disp.dll -Address BFA84A73 base at BF9B7000, DateStamp 3fb91f9b
|
| Beginning dump of physical memory
| Physical memory dump complete.
|
| I would really appreciate if anyone could give me some input as to what this
| error code is pointing to. I am guessing it surely has something to do with
| the NVidia GeForce FX 5200 graphic card but this could it be that the last 3
| graphics cards and my Flight Simulator 2004 don't get along well together or
| is the problem running deeper than just this? Please remove the "nospam" in
| the email address for email replys. Thank you very much for any input.
|
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