Rounder

I was playing a computer game, and it froze. I reset the computer and then the driver for the video card says "This device cannot start. (Code 10) Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device." under the device manager - display adaptors.

I have an NVIDIA GE Force 8800GT. It's at least 4 years old I believe.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver. When I rebooted, the PC detected the video card, but still the same error, even with the latest drivers installed.

I have tried windows rollback and that didn't work either.

Any more ideas?? Is it possible that the driver got old and simply crapped out? If that is the case, what is a decent upgrade without spending more than $100 or $150?

thanks.

Rounder

on the windows start up screen, instead of an all black screen with the windows logo, there are light blue dots all over the screen...leads me to believe the video card is busted.

Whiskers

Sounds like a bad card. Try booting into safe mode, remove all the card drivers there and then try to reinstall it.

Rounder

bought a new card, radeon. installed it and the screen was black. wtf?? i don't know much about hardware and i thought you can just plug it in and install the drivers and it will work. so frustrated right now. i disabled the "broken" video card and had to plug it back in so i at least have a computer to work on.

justnspace

iTrader: (1)

what card did you buy?

Whiskers

You should be able to plug it in and boot up, windows should see it and start installing stuff.

TeknoKing

What card did you buy? You don't even get BIOS posting? Make sure it is installed right, make sure you have enough power running for it, make sure your cables are connected right and monitor is on, lol

Rounder

no it is a completely black screen cant get to BIOS. i installed it correctly. there is no power plug for it like the Nvidia. (6 hole plug) Radeon HD 6450 i bought.

Whiskers

Something is not connected.

Rounder

probably my brain i returned it to the store and will be buying a better one off newegg.

Rounder

Installed a new video card (Radeon). Deleted all the NVidia drivers and now my computer is super laggy typing and loading graphics. I'm worried I deleted some NVidia program that I needed, under the add/delete programs in the control panel and that's whats causing the problem. Dell XPS 630i, Win XP. Any ideas would be helpful.

srika

Sorry to hear that. Usually downloading and installing the latest driver from the website takes care of this kind of thing. If that doesn't work, you can consider restoring Windows to a previous state before you made those changes, if that option is available to you.

Let us know how it goes.

Rounder

ran my antivirus and malwarebyes so it's not a malware problem. i tried system restore and it did not work/could not restore to a previous point.... I have the newest drivers for the Radeon but I do not know what the NVidia program was I deleted off the program list and whatever it was, messed my computer up. I tried to download the original nvidia motherboard drivers but that did nothing.

Whiskers

That wouldnt cause the slowness. Make sure the card is in correctly, boot to safe mode to see if its still slow. Disable the on-board graphics if needed in BIOS.

Ken1997TL

And make sure the fan on the card is working. Be sure if it has an external power source, it is connected.

TzarChasm

speaking of power, how much power does the card require? Keep in mind, what it says on the box for minimum is probably not going to be enough.

Have you looked to see if the card is supported by XP?

Rounder

couldn't find the onboard graphics in BIOS. i looked at the device manager and there is a yellow "?" next to "non plug and play drivers" ... "NVR0FLASHDev" would this have anything to do with it?

I have the latest drivers installed from the AMD website.

Rounder

requires 450 W and apparently my PC has 750 W according to specs

Whiskers

try something like drivermax

TeknoKing

What Radeon card you have? Is there external power connected to it? Windows XP? Really?

Give me the Radeon model...

Rounder

no external power and no power cord plug in slot. it is a HD 6670. maybe i just need a new computer at this point. XP is done as of april 2014.

TeknoKing

The only thing it can be are bad AMD drivers for Win XP... I'd clean nstall Windows 7 just to have full benefits of better DirectX and faster processing. Did you install the latest AMD Catalyst drivers? if yes, see if you can find old drivers for your card from 2011. Something is not compatible :/ Safe mode the card works well?

Rounder

interesting. i just uninstalled the radeon drivers and the browser speed picked up. i will reinstall from the disc and see what happens.

srika

It can definitely be a driver issue - if you are saying when you are running the computer WITHOUT any video drivers installed, its running OK, then the latest drivers may just have an issue with your computer. See if you can locate an older (maybe 2 or 3 releases older) version of the driver and try installing that.

Myxomatosis

When I installed a video card in my XP, it barely ran, till I read that I should try different versions of drivers. The newest drivers ended up not being compatible, and a rather old set worked just fine. Oddly enough this video card is the only reason I cant go windows 7, since it wouldnt support it.

YeuEmMaiMai

Want the quick fix?

Boot into safe mode and DELETE THE PCI BUS and restart machine

voilla

Moose Muscles

Back in the day, I had to use a Nvidia driver removal tool from Nvidia. Google will take you to what I'm talking about, might be worth a try.

RJANACONDA

iTrader: (1)

I guess this is the best place for this thread.

so in my build I have two SSD 100GB on with windows 7 and one with XP.

I have been scratching my head over what happened to all my harddrive space since the only thing on each drive is pretty much the OS and that is it. (I have a 3TB network drive for storage) what was really bugging me is the windows 7 drive had a lot more space free when looking at it in XP

so after getting treesize to take a more indept look I found a file called hiberfil.sys not in any folder. researching this file it is system reserved space for the purpose of hibernating the computer and proportionate to RAM size. on my sys that is 64GB but that means 64GB of space I will never use (I don't hibernate)

using the steps on this site http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15140...o-i-delete-it/

I disable the hibernate function which auto deletes the file

I went from having 9.6 gb free to 57.5gb of free space in less than a min. and later I will do it for the xp side of the house.

RJANACONDA

iTrader: (1)

ok I just restarted my computer in XP and then 7 both had updates but now I can confirm doing this doesn't mess anything up critically

oh and correction 2 90GB SSDs but who is counting... oh wait I was

and if anyone can tell me why my XP drive looks almost full in 7 and plenty of space in XP let me know

Yumcha

Okay...created a single thread for tech-support questions!

Ken1997TL

Sounds like when it boots into Windows 7 its using the drive more than in XP. Page file?

Whiskers

That file is only in 7. Its works with hibernation, and if you dont use it you dont need it. You need to run the dos command or it comes back.

RJANACONDA

iTrader: (1)

yup pagefile on that drive is 64GB when in 7 when I boot in xp its only 1.5GB

I want to delete it completely but the file is always in use even though I disabled the hibernation

edit: got it! damn auto virtual memory settings