Topic: Display problem

[Clive]

This is the event log...

[Sandra]

Clive do you not have any red Xs just before the time of your BSOD ?
Check the applications log as well as the system log for red Xs

[Clive]

There are some in the applications log which coincide with the BSOD's of the 27th, 28th and 29th but not since.  Perhaps they refer to applications which were not properly shut down?

[Adept]

There are some in the applications log which coincide with the BSOD's of the 27th, 28th and 29th but not since.  Perhaps they refer to applications which were not properly shut down?  

Have you clicked on the link to the Microsoft site Clive? It may give you some useful information ...

[Clive]

What it says is "A "STOP: 0x0000008E" Error Message Occurs When You Change the Hardware Acceleration Setting

SYMPTOMS
When you try to change the Hardware Acceleration setting in the Display tool in Control Panel from None to Full, you may receive the following Stop error message in Win32k.sys:
STOP: 0x0000008E (c0000005, bf875fc3, f07bcd48, 00000000)
KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED"

But I haven't changed the Hardware Acceleration setting Adept - in fact I can't even find it!    It's interesting to note that they say that there will be a fix in a future service pack so maybe SP2 might sort it?

[Sandra]

Clive its in display properties/settings/advanced then in that window trouble shoot.
Maybe if you drop it from full to about 2/3 and see if anything happens  
Its still looking like a display driver issue though isnt it  

[Clive]

Everything seems to be in order Sandra as all the settings are on medium or low.

[Simon]

I still think that the simplest way forward is to save everything you need, then format and re-install Windows, Clive.  It could be done in an evening, but you might be running round in circles trying to find the cause of these inconsistent error messages for weeks.  If that doesn't sort it, then you know it has to be a hardware problem.

Unless, of course, you are going for the record of the longest unsolved thread on Pals!  

[Adept]

Everything seems to be in order Sandra as all the settings are on medium or low.  

Just a thought ... why not try it on full acceleration?

Hang on, "all the settings" ? How many sliders do you have Clive? There should only be one AFAIK.

[Clive]

Slight user error folks.    I can't have been in the right screen the first time I tried that accelerator but I found it straight away this time.  It was in fact on full.   :-[  I've moved the slider to two thirds now.  Grovelling apologies.  

[Sandra]

Dont forget to run that RAM testing prog from here too Clive :

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

[Clive]

I downloaded that Sandra but it wouldn't boot up from the floppy.  I found another from ZDNet which included a boot program but it was for Intel only and I have an Athlon.

Anyway - hot on the heels of NVIDIA's March 15th new driver, they have today issued another!  

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_56.72

Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow....

[Sandra]

Clive you probably either downloaded the file straight to the floppy instead of to the hard drive first then running it and telling it to create a floppy or, your boot sequence is set to boot from the hard drive as the first boot device.
Just go into bios and select floppy as the first boot device and it should run ok, dont forget to reset it afterwards but as long as its first boot device is the floppy and the second as HDD 0 then it wont matter about changing it back  

[Clive]

Clive you probably either downloaded the file straight to the floppy instead of to the hard drive first then running it and telling it to create a floppy

I did! I did!    OK testing RAM to destruction tomorrow.  

[Clive]

Shhhhhhh... is that a swallow I see up in yonder sky?  Be very still.