NVIDIA video card causes hangs at shutdown???

[Marc Hunter]

I finally bit the bullett and upgraded to SP2 and then the system will not
shutdown, it hangs at the "windows is shuttingdown" and the mouse freezes. i
have a PNY NVIDIA fx 5200 128mb dual head video card that i think is the
problem: here is what i have done. i tried a clean install and the computer
will not even restart from the blue install screens so i decided to install
SP1 again and all was fine. i thought at this point it was the motherboard
so... i got a new one and got it all up and running with SP1. Then i
upgraded to SP2 and the hang came back so i called PNY and they told me they
never heard of any kind of error like this before (someone else out here
posted similar problems and also had a fx 5200 which lead to belive my
problem might be the VC) they had me check the Chipset drivers and they were
upto date as well as the VC drivers,anyway they said call MS. i asked about
a bios for the VC but thats not going to happen (from them anyway). now i
have put an NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 in and it seemed to hang the same as the
other. so i replaced it with an old ATI VC and it seems to be fine but i
want my better VC to work. help anyone??

OLD mother board: Epox EP-8KHA+

NEW Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7VT600-L
http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Products/Products_GA-7VT600-L (Rev 1.x).htm

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1900+

Memory: 512MB

 

[Slippery_one]

I finally bit the bullett and upgraded to SP2 and then the system
will not shutdown, it hangs at the "windows is shuttingdown" and the
mouse freezes. i have a PNY NVIDIA fx 5200 128mb dual head video card
that i think is the problem: here is what i have done. i tried a
clean install and the computer will not even restart from the blue
install screens so i decided to install SP1 again and all was fine. i
thought at this point it was the motherboard so... i got a new one
and got it all up and running with SP1. Then i upgraded to SP2 and
the hang came back so i called PNY and they told me they never heard
of any kind of error like this before (someone else out here posted
similar problems and also had a fx 5200 which lead to belive my
problem might be the VC) they had me check the Chipset drivers and
they were upto date as well as the VC drivers,anyway they said call
MS. i asked about a bios for the VC but thats not going to happen
(from them anyway). now i have put an NVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 in and it
seemed to hang the same as the other. so i replaced it with an old
ATI VC and it seems to be fine but i want my better VC to work. help
anyone??

OLD mother board: Epox EP-8KHA+

NEW Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7VT600-L
http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Products/Products_GA-7VT600-L (Rev 1.x).htm

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1900+

Memory: 512MB

You have the latest 4 in 1 drivers from Via?

The latest drivers from Nvidia? Try finding the Beta drivers from
Nvidia. I can't remember until I get home...I think it's...Never mind,
they just released them 71.84, I think the beta was 71.83 so make sure
you get 71.84.

You might try turning off Nview and see what happens. After you get
the latest Via and Nvidia.

BTW, tech support personnel are sometimes trained to pass you off onto
someone else~! It works! Check the message boards and find other cases
like yours and see if there's a fix!

 

[Marc Hunter]

yes i have all of the current software drivers, but with it not restarting
from the setup i figured it was going to be hardware, because they should
not be loaded during the initial setup phase.

 

[Marc Hunter]

ok i have figured out what caused my problem so this is just an update for
anyone else that has this problem. I had a 1394 (firewire) card with an ALI
chipset, and when i removed it the computer started working fine with the
NVIDIA video card. some kind of strange conflict with SP2 the firewire and
the NVIDIA card how odd.

 

[frodo]

try disabling the "nvidia display driver service". it has a rep for
causing shutdown issues. see:

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/strangeservice.htm

for nvsvc or nvsvc32

 

[Real Name]

Hi,

You might want to look at this
problem a bit more closely.

I ran nVidia/firewire for quite
awhile, and no problems.

Suddenly, all of my hardware is
acting up, and making bootup, and
shutdown misbehave.

Something - is soaking up
resources, and it's not necessarily
driver conflicts.

Keep an eye out for parasites,
when software that you think ought to
be OK, starts getting finicky

Ken .

 

[Guest]

yes i have problem with my fx 5200 causes reboots and when i close a window
it looks like i dont have the right drivers.it does a wierd effect like the
window is fallin all thru out the screen ,like a fallin curtain