8800GTS

[Nask]

Hello,

I'm getting BSOD on random occasions, following message occurs:

Stop:0x00000008E (0X0000005,0XBFA67D90,0XB1707764, 0X00000000

nv4_disp.dll -Adress BFA67D90 base at BFGD4000. DAte stamp 458AE707

I even tried reinstalling WindowsXp SP2 with all security patches and have got all the latest drivers and latest Bios for motherboard.
Disabled Firewire and the Jmicron in Bios. I haven't overclocked. all at stock settings.

Last time i got this BSOD was when my avg antivirus was updating and i launced Internet Explorer.

My system is as follows:
P5W DH Deluxe (bios 1707)
CPU Core2Duo E 6600
Soundblaster X-FI FATALITY
MSI GEForce 8800GTS
SPIRE Rocketeer 4 600W PSU
DVD BUrner NEC AD-7173
2*1024MB RAM Kingston (DDR2-5300)
SATA 2 HD Maxtor

I hope you can help me out,

NAsk

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

IIRC, nv4_disp.dll signifies a driver problem.

 

[TheRyuu]

Nvidia Driver Problem in all likelihood. However, other things can cause the drivers to fail such as overclocking.

Make sure theres nothing physically wrong with the card too.
You problem doesn't sound normal. Well, no problem should be normal, you get what I mean...

 

[40sTheme]

Driver issue. Uninstall drivers, run Driver Cleaner for all nVidia, reinstall drivers. nv4_disp.dll is part of the Forceware drivers AFAIK.

 

[Nask]

Ok i can try to uninstall the drivers and reinstall them.

A bit odd to me is that it has worked for some weeks and then it gives the BSOD.

One more question added .. i know i got a minidump of the crash. How can i open/read it and will it be useful to post ?

 

[Nask]

I did as suggested and reinstalled drivers.

BUT today i booted my pc , windows loaded.. my AVG antivirus went updating and scan .and I launched Internet explorer because i wanted to take alook at the forum.
There is was again: BSOD

only difference was 0XB11C4764 in stead of the 0XB1707764 string.

It's driving me nuts.

 

[videopho]

Just wanted to make sure you did plug in the 6-pin psu cable onto the back end of the card.
Otherwise it sounds like the card, a bad one.
Return or exchange it, if possible.

 

[FireChicken]

Did you have another video card before the 8800GTS?? Did you run Driver cleaner???

 

[Nask]

Originally posted by: FireChicken
Did you have another video card before the 8800GTS?? Did you run Driver cleaner???

THis is the only Card used in this system purchased it in December. Did a clean install of Windows with the latest drivers, still the same BSOD

 

[FireChicken]

is it still giving the same dll error (nv4_disp.dll)? Where did you downlaod the driver from and what version is it? Might be a good idea to still run driver cleaner? If your inital install had a corupt file a reinstall might not get rid of the bad file.

 

[Nask]

It's version 97.92 and dowloaded from nvidia.com. will use driver cleaner and install them again. What occurs to me is that i have absolutely no problems in the game i play a lot, which is called Secondlife. Even checked if the card had scratches or other dmg. it looks just fine.

 

[jim1976]

It seems like a driver issue.. Though this dll file is included in many error reports so we can not be sure of its nature..
Try uninstalling the drivers once more and use this method ..

1) Uninstall NVIDIA driver using one of two methods

a) Control Panel - Add/Remove programs - Select NVIDIA Drivers - chose "remove only the following" and select "NVIDIA Display Driver"

or

b) Right click on desktop screen/Properties/Display Properties/Settings/Advanced/Adapter/Properties/Driver/Uninstall

2) After uninstalling the NVIDIA driver, reboot into standard Microsoft VGA driver mode

3) Go to Start > Run > and type ?regedit"- select HKey Local Machine/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Video and delete ALL keys. Also go into HKey Local Machine/System/ControlSet001, 002, 003 (if they exist), and delete any keys down the /Control/Video paths similar to above.

3) Install NVIDIA 97.02 or higher driver

This should clean up driver remnants and provide a clean installation, yielding proper performance.


Also try to use the 97.02 driver.. It seems to be the most stable driver so far with less issues than the other versions.. It is reported that some versions cause issues to gpu memory controllers..

Now I saw the bios version.. Remove this crappy version (1707) at once.. It has created many issues to users.. Use an earlier stable bios version..

I assume that you aren't O/Cing or if you do you have a stable O/C right?

 

[Nask]

Jim,

which BIos version do you recommend. Mine had version 1407 on it and had the same issues.

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: Nask
Jim,

which BIos version do you recommend. Mine had version 1407 on it and had the same issues.

I have the same as well.. Don't bother upgrading your bios if you don't have REAL issues.. But most of all remove this crappy version at once and see what happens.. A friend of mine had this one installed for example and it locked the cpu multiplier on his E6800!! Many other users have experienced various issues with it..

 

[Nask]

I thank you all for your suggestions but tthe pc is still not running as it should be.

I have taken it to my vendor, so he can examine it. Will post back when i know more.

Nask

 

[Nickel020]

I also had a couple (3 or 4) of BSODs since I got the 8800 GTS two weeks ago, had them rarely since I switchend to Win XP (like 1 a year). I'll try using DC and re-installing the driver's again as well, let's see if that fixes it. I can't acutally look at the error message since the PC reboots less than 1 second after the BSOD.

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: Nask
I thank you all for your suggestions but tthe pc is still not running as it should be.

I have taken it to my vendor, so he can examine it. Will post back when i know more.

Nask

Can you try something last? Do a CMOS and check it again.. It's a 5 min job..

 

[VivaLasWENUS]

I'm also recieving a BSOD with my BFG 8800GTS. Wasn't happing when I first got the system a few weeks ago but it started doing it a couple days ago. It has always been random when it does it either while in game or not in game. It's irrating me a bit. I've tried to re-install the drivers but no luck on that going to run driver cleaner this time when I do it to see if that works if not might be calling up BFG to honor thier lifetime warranty. We'll see though Nask let me know what your vendor says about it and if anybody else wants to input that would be great.

Oh and BTW what bois version should I go to I updated the bois in order to try and fix this problem but hasn't fixed it. Since it seems it's such a bad bois version it would be nice to change it back to a more stable version.

System as follows:
P5W DH Deluxe (bios 1707)
CPU Core2Duo E 6600
BFG GEForce 8800GTS
OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU
DVD BUrner NEC
OCZ Platinum Revision 2x 1GB (total of 2gb) (DDR2-6400)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA hard drive

 

[Nask]

My Bios was shipped with 1407 . One thing i know is that this particular mobo has issues with RAM. So I am guessing the problem is that direction.

nicklel020 . When you go to system properties- Avanced- start&Reboot options - there is checkbox .

Jim.. the PC is already at my vendor so i can't perform that action ( i am on my laptop writing this).

 

[evolucion8]

You should check your RAM using Memtest or Windiag. Sometimes if there's problems with the RAM, it easily reflects on gaming. When I had problems with my RAM, it BSOD saying that it crashed cause of the ati2dvag.dll blah blah blah. And no matter what version of the driver I would use, it crashed any time that I play any game. When I tested the RAM I fould problems with it, and It was that the BIOS setup didn't config the RAM properly, I changed the Self Refresh on the RAM and now I don't have any problems at all.

 

[Nickel020]

I got two BSODs yesterday while playing WoW. I re-installed the drivers today using driver cleaner to get rid of the old ones first, let's see if that helps.
RAM seems to not be the problem in my case, my system hast benn runing for like 20 months now, and I checked RAM and CPU stability a few weeks ago when my X800XL was dying.

And thanks Nask for the tip on how to turn off auto-reboot, I'll check the error message next time I get a BSOD (don't think re-installing drivers will do the trick...).

 

[VivaLasWENUS]

Just an update on mine. I've been able to narrow it down to when it's doing the BSOD. It's only happening when I'm playing WOW with full setting on. It hasn't BSOD on me since I set it to the defualt setting but I hate doing that when I have this nice vedeo card that can handle the higher up settings. I've only tried one other game which was (Half-Life 2 also tried running the Lost Coast of Half-Life 2 demo) with full settings on ran it for about 6 hours straight and no problems.

I also noticed that my memory was running at a lower speed and also the timings where off I went in to manually set everything just to find out that when running Memtest I'm getting about 8 errors every pass all errors where all on test 5 at the last 1% or so of the test. Not knowing a whole lot about memory my main concern is that maybe I have to voltage off a bit. I am running the voltage at what the OCZ site recomends for that ram. Here's what I have setting wise for the memory at the moment 4-4-4-15 DDR2-800 2.1V. That's the max voltage that the OCZ website recommended and I only have it set that high becuase 1.9-2.0 where failing in Memtest even more than what the 2.1v is.

Any recomendations would be great.

 

[zagood]

Haven't seen this mentioned, but make sure that onboard video is disabled in the bios.

Also, if there's a setting for it in bios, make sure "assign IRQ to VGA" (or something like that) is enabled.

-z

 

[Nickel020]

I re-installed Win XP and still got a BSOD today while playing WoW. Forgot to turn off the auto-reboot though so I couldn't check the actual error. I guess this is a driver issue though, hope this gets fixed in the next release.

 

[Nickel020]

I'm still getting bluescreens here, but I also got something new! Two or three tiems now I had the screen jsut hoing black in WoW and only the WoW mouse cursor showing. I can still close the game with Alt+F4 and return to Windows. If I try to start it again though I get an error emssage telling me WoW could not be loaded and I should check if I have DirectX 9.0c installed. After a reboot I can stat WoW again.

I also checked the Bluescreen error code, but I only get something like this (jsut copied from nask's original post) but no reference to nv4_disp.dll or any other file:

Stop:0x00000008E (0X0000005,0XBFA67D90,0XB1707764, 0X00000000