How to Debug This?

[Wayne Wengert]

I am running XP Pro with all current patches. I have a GeForce 7600GT video
card (nVidia). If I open Device Manager and update the driver to the latest
version (downloaded from nVidia site) everything works fine. But... when I
shutdown and restart the system, it comes up showing that the video card
"... cannot start"? Again, if I the update the driver (to the same driver)
it works fine. What is the best way to isolate what might be causing this?

 

[Malke]

I am running XP Pro with all current patches. I have a GeForce 7600GT video
card (nVidia). If I open Device Manager and update the driver to the latest
version (downloaded from nVidia site) everything works fine. But... when I
shutdown and restart the system, it comes up showing that the video card
"... cannot start"? Again, if I the update the driver (to the same driver)
it works fine. What is the best way to isolate what might be causing this?

When I've seen this it usually means the video card is failing. To test,
you can try using an older version of Nvidia drivers (they have an
archive). Since this is easy and costs nothing, I'd do that first. If
changing drivers doesn't help, then uninstall the card and swap it out
for a known-working one. If that solves the issue, replace the failing card.


Malke

 

[Wayne Wengert]

Malke;

I appreciate the response. I tried two different cards with the exact same
result?

Wayne

 

[Malke]

Malke;

I appreciate the response. I tried two different cards with the exact same
result?

With older drivers? If you didn't try the different drivers first, I
would do that. Other than that, I don't really have enough information
to guess. What changed between the time things worked and the time they
didn't?

Malke

 

[Guest]

You should actually post a message on nVidia's newsgroup. But give this a try:

Boot XP in Safe Mode with F8
Login
Start, Run, Cmd
cd %windir%\system32
md backup
move nv*.* backup
cd system32
md backup
move nv*.* backup
Reboot the system, What we just did in the above steps is move all nvidia
files into backup folder so that when XP reboots it will not use nvidia
drivers, but will use XP's SVGA drivers. Once XP has rebooted, login and run
the install program for nvidia. If the drivers still does not install
correctly. This is nvidia's driver install problem, you should post a message
on their newsgroup.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Please ignore the 1st message, it has a error.

You should actually post a message on nVidia's newsgroup. But give this a try:

Boot XP in Safe Mode with F8
Login
Start, Run, Cmd
cd %windir%\system32
md backup
move nv*.* backup
cd drivers
md backup
move nv*.* backup
Reboot the system, What we just did in the above steps is move all nvidia
files into backup folder so that when XP reboots it will not use nvidia
drivers, but will use XP's SVGA drivers. Once XP has rebooted, login and run
the install program for nvidia. If the drivers still does not install
correctly. This is nvidia's driver install problem, you should post a message
on their newsgroup.

Thanks

 

[Wayne Wengert]

John;

Thank you. I'll try that. I did post this problem on the nVidia forums a
couple of days ago but got no response.

Wayne