Recent content by Swordfish45

Follow up for anyone who googled their way here. The chip was fried the whole time, new driver just coincidental.

Wow, i followed the instructions from Microsoft and reinstalled a trustworthy driver, and it works now. I don't know what i was doing wrong, but Windows now works fine. Thanks! I'll go ahead and see if i can upgrade the Fedora nvidia driver. Thanks Proxy, thats a lot more helpful than...

nVidia does not support their own drivers for their go 7600. I have tried the following: "Version 8.6.0.0" from MSI's support site- this one worked perfectly a few months ago I've tried 5 other versions from LaptopVideo2Go, a few of them had modified INI. The Msi version gives me a...

Hey, I'm getting a stop error regarding my video card: NV4_mini.sys PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA 0x00000050 (0xFE144948 0x00000000 0x8B699068 0x00000002) I have been struggling for months to find the root of this problem, i have tried 6 different drivers, all which give me either...

I have a barebones model laptop I bought from Cyberpower Inc. It's model MS-16331, but it's pretty similar to the Crystal M677. I have Vista Ultimate 32bit. I'm having a problem with my video card driver. The graphics chip is a nVidia go 7600 with a nVidia C51MV + MCP51M chipset. I've been...

Party like a rock. Party like a rockstar.

Hey, i have a friend's sata drive what he wanted me to clean of some spyware, so i put it in the second sata port on my computer. So that leaves me with 2 Sata drives, both have windows installed. When i try to boot, i get NTDLR not found, or INNACESSABLE BOOT DEVICE depending on the cable...

Fixed it. The problem was AVG antivirus. I knew it wasn't fully compatable when i installed it, but it was still working so i kept it. Then, while it was left on one night, it downloaded a core update that caused the problem. There is a helpful tool under the Performance tab of control...

fresh install

My laptop is running Vista 32bit Ultimate, and recently i shut it down after it froze trying to hibernate. When i started it up again, everything was normal untill i logged on to my screenie. From there, everything took a loooong time to load and respond. First i would get a black screen with...

Want $10? Or how about a chocolate chip cookie instead? Keep reading................................ I have a problem with my freind's computer. He's upgrading from a socket 462 w/ a VIA chipset---- to a socket AM2 w/ and nVidia nForce Chipset. His previous parts worked fine, and i...

I was wondering how to install my copy of Windows 2003 Server edition R2 on another server. I havent tried yet, i just need to know the basics: What licenses do i need? from what i leaned from Micr$oft's website i need another server license (which is as much as a new hard copy of the os) and...

His old parts still work fine, so i am backing up all his stuff. Get this: 80 gigs through a usb 1.1 port. WTF? All the other hd's i have are sata. However, i suspect the mobo: 1 it was cheap 2 it makes a squealing noise when the psu is on

im going from a socket 462 to socket AM2. That's a few steppings appart... So i guess im changing my plan. Is there any way to just reinstall windows and overwrite the system files without changing all the personal files? Can i just reinstall the os in that partition? Or will that erase...

Well thanks for telling me about sysprep. I never heard about it before. Before a reinstall, ill try chkdsk /r and see what that does. Thanks