nvidia drivers appear to be causing a problem

[T5]

I am using vista Beta II x86 on

Asus A8N-E Mobo
4gb Ram
300GB HDD
athlon K8 x64bit dual core 3800+

I have updated the Nvidia drivers but everytime I try this the pc reeboots
and I get a message saying that host process windows rundll.32 has stopped,
I don't know if this has anything to do with the video drivers but I am
trying to find out why my pc keeps reebooting whenever I boot to vista.

I have checked the obvious............ I have no viruses, spyware blah blah
blah
and the event log doesn't really tell me much except that I have an event
1000 but there is no advice on this event except to say that it has
something to do with NvCpl.dll and a fault in a module and rundll.32

 

[Steve Urbach]

I am using vista Beta II x86 on

Asus A8N-E Mobo
4gb Ram
300GB HDD
athlon K8 x64bit dual core 3800+

I have updated the Nvidia drivers but everytime I try this the pc reeboots
and I get a message saying that host process windows rundll.32 has stopped,
I don't know if this has anything to do with the video drivers but I am
trying to find out why my pc keeps reebooting whenever I boot to vista.

I have checked the obvious............ I have no viruses, spyware blah blah
blah
and the event log doesn't really tell me much except that I have an event
1000 but there is no advice on this event except to say that it has
something to do with NvCpl.dll and a fault in a module and rundll.32

Seen that one after installing Nvidia supplied drivers (for FX5200).

IIRC the fix was to uninstall the Nvidia package from the Add/remove
software control panel in Safe mode and load the WDM drivers from
Microsoft. It wasn't easy as I remember.

 

[Chad Harris]

Hi T5--

What is the card whose driver you're trying to update--tell us the Nvidia
Card model and the manufacturer of the card. My experience with some of
the newer Nvidia cards by diff. manufacturers is that there are multiple
driver choices often, particularly when Beta drivers are involved and right
now, some of the newer Nvidia drivers for Vista any build are beta drivers.
Some drivers work better than others when there is a choice for a particular
card; others can cause anything from BSOD no boots, to freezes during
certain demanding games, etc.

Also some of the manufacturer's of the cards tech support, and their forums,
and Nvidia's own forums are doing a very good job of tracking the success of
these drivers and can let you know the optiomal driver for your card when
there **are options. Some drivers for a particular card work better than
others.

CH

CH