WinXP Blues
December 7th 03, 10:50 PM
Hi,
Have you gone to the nvidia website and download the latest
drivers for your sound card. That might be the root of the
problems. Good luck.
Sleepless
>-----Original Message-----
>When ever I update Windows from there update site
>everything updates fine except one driver, this one:
>NVIDIA Corporation Media Driver Version 5.10.2918.0 :
2003-
>02-02
>
>When I download it and it installs I get the Blue Screen,
>so then I hit restart because it is losked up, when it
>comes back up I have no sound and most things in widows do
>not work. Windows Explorer, Control Panel, most things do
>not work. I also do not have any sound. Safe mode will not
>work nor will system restore, last known good
>configuration, nothing will work. So I emailed Microsoft,
>these idiots do not know what is going on because they
>keep telling me there might be a problem with the video
>card, well there is a big difference between the sound
>card and the video card. And they add that this driver
>will not cause problems with my video card, well i hope
>not since I have an ATI video card. The nVidia is the
>sound not the video and I have told them this and they
>told me I was wrong. I know I can install everything
>except that one driver, but I do like keeping everything
>updated, I wuill not install it but if anyone has any
>Ideas let me know, thank you. Also here is my system specs
>if it will help:
>
>AMD XP 2800+
>333mhz FSB
>1GB Corsair PC3200 Ram 400 mhz (Dual Channel Mode)
>Visiontek Radeon 9800 Pro 128 8X AGP(Driver Version:
>CATALYST RADEON 3.6)
>A7N8X nForce2 Deluxe MB (BIOS Version: 1004)(Board
>Version: Rev. 1.04)
>nVidia nForce2 SPP(Northbrigde)(Driver Version: 2.03)
>nVidia nForce2 MCP-T/MCP(Southbridge)(Driver Version:
2.03)
>nVidia Onboard 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound (Sound
>Storm Driver Version: 5.10.2917.0)
>Maxtor 120GB HD 7200RPM/8MB Cache/SATA 150
>Silicon Image Sil 3112A Serial ATA Controler with 2 ports
>(Driver Version: V1.0.0.22)
>Windows XP Pro SP1a
>Directx 9.0a
>Creative 52x CD-ROM
>Sony 48x24x48 CDR-RW
>
>Bellsouth DSL
>Westell DSL Modem (Firmware Version: 1.6.15)(Using Factory
>Defaults)
>
>Rated Speed: 1.5 Megabits Download/ 256 Kilobits Upload
>Actual Speed: 1.25 Megabits Download/ 250 Kilobits Upload
>
>Linksys Router BEFSR41 (Firmware Version 1.44.2z)
>All factory defaults execpt Port Forwarding useing BF'42
>port settings 14567
>
>.
>
Have you gone to the nvidia website and download the latest
drivers for your sound card. That might be the root of the
problems. Good luck.
Sleepless
>-----Original Message-----
>When ever I update Windows from there update site
>everything updates fine except one driver, this one:
>NVIDIA Corporation Media Driver Version 5.10.2918.0 :
2003-
>02-02
>
>When I download it and it installs I get the Blue Screen,
>so then I hit restart because it is losked up, when it
>comes back up I have no sound and most things in widows do
>not work. Windows Explorer, Control Panel, most things do
>not work. I also do not have any sound. Safe mode will not
>work nor will system restore, last known good
>configuration, nothing will work. So I emailed Microsoft,
>these idiots do not know what is going on because they
>keep telling me there might be a problem with the video
>card, well there is a big difference between the sound
>card and the video card. And they add that this driver
>will not cause problems with my video card, well i hope
>not since I have an ATI video card. The nVidia is the
>sound not the video and I have told them this and they
>told me I was wrong. I know I can install everything
>except that one driver, but I do like keeping everything
>updated, I wuill not install it but if anyone has any
>Ideas let me know, thank you. Also here is my system specs
>if it will help:
>
>AMD XP 2800+
>333mhz FSB
>1GB Corsair PC3200 Ram 400 mhz (Dual Channel Mode)
>Visiontek Radeon 9800 Pro 128 8X AGP(Driver Version:
>CATALYST RADEON 3.6)
>A7N8X nForce2 Deluxe MB (BIOS Version: 1004)(Board
>Version: Rev. 1.04)
>nVidia nForce2 SPP(Northbrigde)(Driver Version: 2.03)
>nVidia nForce2 MCP-T/MCP(Southbridge)(Driver Version:
2.03)
>nVidia Onboard 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound (Sound
>Storm Driver Version: 5.10.2917.0)
>Maxtor 120GB HD 7200RPM/8MB Cache/SATA 150
>Silicon Image Sil 3112A Serial ATA Controler with 2 ports
>(Driver Version: V1.0.0.22)
>Windows XP Pro SP1a
>Directx 9.0a
>Creative 52x CD-ROM
>Sony 48x24x48 CDR-RW
>
>Bellsouth DSL
>Westell DSL Modem (Firmware Version: 1.6.15)(Using Factory
>Defaults)
>
>Rated Speed: 1.5 Megabits Download/ 256 Kilobits Upload
>Actual Speed: 1.25 Megabits Download/ 250 Kilobits Upload
>
>Linksys Router BEFSR41 (Firmware Version 1.44.2z)
>All factory defaults execpt Port Forwarding useing BF'42
>port settings 14567
>
>.
>