February 3rd 04, 03:04 AM
Have you installed new USB drivers or a new USB PCI Card
latly? If you have I would roll back the USB Driver or
if it's a new card try the updated drivers found here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822603 or take out the
new card.
>-----Original Message-----
>I believe this to be a video driver/ device problem and
are therefore
>posting here.
>My system is now doing one of two things when playing
virtually any
>game.
>1) Chucks me straight out of a game back to the desktop
with no error,
>or
>2) Reboots the system. (Error report returns that a
device driver is
>at fault)
>
>I had a GeForce MX400 card and this problem started
about a month ago.
>I get about 5 mins into a game and the system does one
of the two
>things above. The system has also restarted a couple of
times during
>normal working, but this is generally after a day or so.
>I have reinstalled the original card drivers, and also
the most recent
>set off of the Nvidia website but with no luck.
>I then went through de-installing all of my video
playback drivers,
>such as xVid, AC3, Nimo & DivX - this still made no
difference.
>Earlier today i installed a new GeForce FX5200 - this
has not helped
>any.
>Again i have de-installed all of my video drivers and
installed Nvidia
>drivers from both the packaged CD and from the website,
but the
>problem seems to be getting worse!
>
>I keep returning back to event viewer where (on system
reboot) i get a
>1001 error, which is a save dump (?). I have run this
through pstat
>and tried to track down the driver at fault (as per the
microsoft
>website) but this is not shedding any light on the
problem.
>
>Can anybody please suggest a course of action which will
highlight the
>driver at fault, or ideally a fix - i am very eager to
play Prince of
>Persia!!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike R
>.
>
latly? If you have I would roll back the USB Driver or
if it's a new card try the updated drivers found here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822603 or take out the
new card.
>-----Original Message-----
>I believe this to be a video driver/ device problem and
are therefore
>posting here.
>My system is now doing one of two things when playing
virtually any
>game.
>1) Chucks me straight out of a game back to the desktop
with no error,
>or
>2) Reboots the system. (Error report returns that a
device driver is
>at fault)
>
>I had a GeForce MX400 card and this problem started
about a month ago.
>I get about 5 mins into a game and the system does one
of the two
>things above. The system has also restarted a couple of
times during
>normal working, but this is generally after a day or so.
>I have reinstalled the original card drivers, and also
the most recent
>set off of the Nvidia website but with no luck.
>I then went through de-installing all of my video
playback drivers,
>such as xVid, AC3, Nimo & DivX - this still made no
difference.
>Earlier today i installed a new GeForce FX5200 - this
has not helped
>any.
>Again i have de-installed all of my video drivers and
installed Nvidia
>drivers from both the packaged CD and from the website,
but the
>problem seems to be getting worse!
>
>I keep returning back to event viewer where (on system
reboot) i get a
>1001 error, which is a save dump (?). I have run this
through pstat
>and tried to track down the driver at fault (as per the
microsoft
>website) but this is not shedding any light on the
problem.
>
>Can anybody please suggest a course of action which will
highlight the
>driver at fault, or ideally a fix - i am very eager to
play Prince of
>Persia!!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike R
>.
>