NEVER let Windows update install device drivers - tha's just asking for
trouble. Always get your device drivers from the manufacturers website.
Norm Higgs
http://forbiddenpc.com
http://forbiddenpc.blogspot.com
http://www.power-blog.com/info/4365
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On 2011-07-31 10:34 AM, cmfjdh wrote:
> Have you updated your nvidia drivers through windows update in the past month or so?
> If so, I had the same video card& it caused me bsod's constantly. I finally fixed it by
> uninstalling the drivers, and NOT letting windows update/install any drivers on reboot.
> I then used revo uninstaller on the advanced level to uninstall everything nvidia related.
> There were still leftover files, so I used Driver Sweeper to get rid of that. Keep in mind
> that I set a restore point before doing any of this. After everything was cleaned out, I
> reinstalled the drivers using the cd that came with my video card and hid the windows
> driver update so it wouldn't happen again. It appeared to be a common problem from
> what I read on forums. I had no more problems for the next week, so hopefully that fixed
> it all. After all that, I decided to buy a new video card. :-)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris Huber
> To: simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 9:05 AM
> Subject: [Simply Computers] freezing games
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> I'm about to lose it..I've tried everything besides taking the computer and
> giving it a toss out the window.
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> No matter how many things I turn off, as soon as I start a game, within a few
> minutes the entire thing frreezes and I have to hard boot to get it to stop. The
> error that comes up is always "daemonu.exe error 0xc000000d at location
> 0x00459c30. "
> I've talked to Nvidia, microsoft and have tried uninstalling and reinstalling
> drivers. The system running is GeForce 8600GT, Nvidia Graphics 270.61. on a XP
> built on a asus motherboard. XP is 2002 service pack 3, AMD 64X2 Dual Processor,
> 6400, 3.21 GGHZ, 3.50 GB Ram.
>
> Any suggestions from the group..? I am not a computer whiz, as you can tell, I'm
> an RN who likes to play games when she's off duty and this is over the top for
> me.
>
> thank you for any help
> chris
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