Hello any willing person to help me
I have for the last 1.5years had this card installed in my PC, with seemingly no problems. I bought it from overclockers.co.uk, meaning this card is a Palit 8600GT (and I checked on their website today, its the most basic of all of that series). It has 256MB GDDR3 RAM and is not SLi'ed and uses PCI-E. I run XP constantly.
I had this card running the older version of the nvidia firmware (like 165 or whatever) and only updated about a month ago when I wanted to play some new games......I had been playing everything fine for about 2weeks until 3days ago.
I was playing COD5 and at the beginning of one the missions, in a cut scene, the screen faded in and out (which I thought was weird) then it goes black, and I have a blinking grey underscore in the top left hand side of my screen. It does this for about 3minutes, and I cannot minimize or anything (I was on microphone to my friend at the time, my pc was running behind it because I was talking to him). I decided to hard reboot and then things get tricky.
I rebooted and was promptly greated by a bluescreen for nv4_disp.dll. So I booted into Safe Mode immediatly, and removed the Nvidia Drivers, resetting it to the default VGA Drivers. I booted normally and all was well, so I tried reinstalling. This is what then happen, see Exhibit A, attached. Cleaaaaaaaaaaarly something is wrong. When i rebooted, the system locks up. During the install, it did the blinking underscore before producing what you see in the image.
So, I immediatly googled many ways to remove every last fragment of the driver. I tried Nasty File Remover (NFR), DriverSweeper and DriverCleaner Pro 1.5. Nothing worked after several installs, same result.
I decided I should see if the problem happens elsewhere, by installing Vista. I do so, everything works fine, its using its VGA Driver still. The OS completes installation succesfully, and still everything works fine (same as XP). I install the Nvidia Drivers and boom......get a nvlddmkm.dll BSOD.
So now, I'm at a loss of what the hell I need to do. Does anybody have any ideas? My only idea was to Flash the firmware of the card (I found mvktech had this but it only had my card in it's 8600GTS form, so this is how I found this site where it has the exact one).
Below is the link to the one that seems to be exactly the same (eg. The memory and memory type are the same, as are the Clocks). I know this because at some point GPU-Z randomly started working instead of saying "no architechture found". See attached screenie.
Link - http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/1468/Palit.8600GT.256.070625.html
Sorry for the overload of information, but, I wanted to make clear I've pretty much covered everything I can think of. I have the NVFLASH 5.72 ready to go (not sure really how to use it to be perfectly honest, my FDD stopped working a while ago, makes for problems), but i'm reluctant to use it because its a bit risky....
Any help would be greatly appreciated, its got me 100% stumped!
Thank you all
TheGinge
I have for the last 1.5years had this card installed in my PC, with seemingly no problems. I bought it from overclockers.co.uk, meaning this card is a Palit 8600GT (and I checked on their website today, its the most basic of all of that series). It has 256MB GDDR3 RAM and is not SLi'ed and uses PCI-E. I run XP constantly.
I had this card running the older version of the nvidia firmware (like 165 or whatever) and only updated about a month ago when I wanted to play some new games......I had been playing everything fine for about 2weeks until 3days ago.
I was playing COD5 and at the beginning of one the missions, in a cut scene, the screen faded in and out (which I thought was weird) then it goes black, and I have a blinking grey underscore in the top left hand side of my screen. It does this for about 3minutes, and I cannot minimize or anything (I was on microphone to my friend at the time, my pc was running behind it because I was talking to him). I decided to hard reboot and then things get tricky.
I rebooted and was promptly greated by a bluescreen for nv4_disp.dll. So I booted into Safe Mode immediatly, and removed the Nvidia Drivers, resetting it to the default VGA Drivers. I booted normally and all was well, so I tried reinstalling. This is what then happen, see Exhibit A, attached. Cleaaaaaaaaaaarly something is wrong. When i rebooted, the system locks up. During the install, it did the blinking underscore before producing what you see in the image.
So, I immediatly googled many ways to remove every last fragment of the driver. I tried Nasty File Remover (NFR), DriverSweeper and DriverCleaner Pro 1.5. Nothing worked after several installs, same result.
I decided I should see if the problem happens elsewhere, by installing Vista. I do so, everything works fine, its using its VGA Driver still. The OS completes installation succesfully, and still everything works fine (same as XP). I install the Nvidia Drivers and boom......get a nvlddmkm.dll BSOD.
So now, I'm at a loss of what the hell I need to do. Does anybody have any ideas? My only idea was to Flash the firmware of the card (I found mvktech had this but it only had my card in it's 8600GTS form, so this is how I found this site where it has the exact one).
Below is the link to the one that seems to be exactly the same (eg. The memory and memory type are the same, as are the Clocks). I know this because at some point GPU-Z randomly started working instead of saying "no architechture found". See attached screenie.
Link - http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/1468/Palit.8600GT.256.070625.html
Sorry for the overload of information, but, I wanted to make clear I've pretty much covered everything I can think of. I have the NVFLASH 5.72 ready to go (not sure really how to use it to be perfectly honest, my FDD stopped working a while ago, makes for problems), but i'm reluctant to use it because its a bit risky....
Any help would be greatly appreciated, its got me 100% stumped!
Thank you all
TheGinge