Crash on anything DirectX

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This has stumped every computer repair professional I have found. I have a AMD K7 1200 Mhz with 384 Megs of RAM running windows XP. My video card is a NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64. I have directx 9 loaded and every driver on the system is up-to-date. Whenever I run anything (game/dvd/directx diagnositc tests) that require the computer to activate directdraw the computer completely freezes and I need to hit the reset buton. No one could tell me why this was happening. The video card worked correctly (albeit a litle slow) in Windows 98. I have also installed bigger, faster video cards that I know work into the windows xp system to test if I had a bad video card and the same error still occurs.

I stumbled across a temporary solution where I disable the video driver in the device manager. This causes the system to reboot. Once rebooted I reenable the video driver in the device manager and then change the screen resolution in the display properties to a larger size. Then directdraw and all the programs work correctly until I power down the system (then I have to repeat the process next time). My guess is that something is loading when the computer restarts with the video driver disabled that is not loading when I start with the video driver enabled. I saw elsewhere that there is a known problem between AMD chips, windows xp and directx, but it never saw what that problem was or how to fix it. Does anyone know of a more permanent solution for me? thanks

 

[Microsoft Video Driver OCA Triage]

Eric,
It sounds like you need to update your AGP drivers. Go to your motherboard
manutactures website and install the latest drivers for your motherboard
chipsets.
Also make sure you have nVidia's 53.03 driver installed....
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_53.03
Thanks,
Aaron C. Smith
Microsoft Video Driver OCA Triage
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This has stumped every computer repair professional I have found. I have a

AMD K7 1200 Mhz with 384 Megs of RAM running windows XP. My video card is a
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64. I have directx 9 loaded and every driver on the
system is up-to-date. Whenever I run anything (game/dvd/directx diagnositc
tests) that require the computer to activate directdraw the computer
completely freezes and I need to hit the reset buton. No one could tell me
why this was happening. The video card worked correctly (albeit a litle
slow) in Windows 98. I have also installed bigger, faster video cards that I
know work into the windows xp system to test if I had a bad video card and
the same error still occurs.

I stumbled across a temporary solution where I disable the video driver in

the device manager. This causes the system to reboot. Once rebooted I
reenable the video driver in the device manager and then change the screen
resolution in the display properties to a larger size. Then directdraw and
all the programs work correctly until I power down the system (then I have
to repeat the process next time). My guess is that something is loading when
the computer restarts with the video driver disabled that is not loading
when I start with the video driver enabled. I saw elsewhere that there is a
known problem between AMD chips, windows xp and directx, but it never saw
what that problem was or how to fix it. Does anyone know of a more permanent
solution for me? thanks

 

[Guest]

That is great advise.......however I have the same problem and have updated to driver 53.03 and still the problem exsists. I have moved the card to a different pci slot and still the same. I read that this video card should not share the irq if possible.....bit you cant change the irq setting. Any suggestion

Thanks