System Specs:
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
Asus A7N8X NVidia NForce 2 mobo
512MB DDR Corsair XMS(can't remember the number offhand - maybe 3500?)
Western Digital 80Gig HD
Samsung LCD (using DVI connector - tried switching to VGA and problem remained)
MSI Video Card - GeForce4 Ti4200 chipset (tried swapping out and testing w/GeForce2, didn't help)
Windows XP Pro
Really bizzare problem here - the computer was left on for about 2 hours while no one was in the house, and when I returned, the monitor was off (no surprise there, its set to go off after 20 min), but it didn't want to wake up - moving the mouse all around and hitting keyboard buttons had no effect - it just sat there with the monitor in power save mode. Eventually, they reset the machine, and it began to boot up fine, showing the "Windows is starting" splash screen. It then shows the light blue screen that's the background for login for about 5-10 seconds, and then the monitor seems to lose the signal. After another minute or so, it reboots into safe mode. There the error pops up saying "The display driver could not complete a drawing operation." If Iuninstall the drivers, sure enough, it works fine, but when the same version is re-installed, the error occurs! Installing older versions doesn't help either - it only seems to operate with the default windows drivers. Tried swapping out the video card, same problem - works fine until drivers are installed. Also tried turning off all graphics hardware acceleration in safe mode, and re-booting into normal mode... didn't help.
Also, when looking back in the event log, it looks like the machine re-booted itself some time in the 2 hours when no one was around... can't figure out what caused it, though - there's a "save dump" event and a dump file, but I don't know how to use that to find out what caused the crash.
Any ideas would be welcome, either on how to look up the event that caused the problem, or on how to fix it!
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
Asus A7N8X NVidia NForce 2 mobo
512MB DDR Corsair XMS(can't remember the number offhand - maybe 3500?)
Western Digital 80Gig HD
Samsung LCD (using DVI connector - tried switching to VGA and problem remained)
MSI Video Card - GeForce4 Ti4200 chipset (tried swapping out and testing w/GeForce2, didn't help)
Windows XP Pro
Really bizzare problem here - the computer was left on for about 2 hours while no one was in the house, and when I returned, the monitor was off (no surprise there, its set to go off after 20 min), but it didn't want to wake up - moving the mouse all around and hitting keyboard buttons had no effect - it just sat there with the monitor in power save mode. Eventually, they reset the machine, and it began to boot up fine, showing the "Windows is starting" splash screen. It then shows the light blue screen that's the background for login for about 5-10 seconds, and then the monitor seems to lose the signal. After another minute or so, it reboots into safe mode. There the error pops up saying "The display driver could not complete a drawing operation." If Iuninstall the drivers, sure enough, it works fine, but when the same version is re-installed, the error occurs! Installing older versions doesn't help either - it only seems to operate with the default windows drivers. Tried swapping out the video card, same problem - works fine until drivers are installed. Also tried turning off all graphics hardware acceleration in safe mode, and re-booting into normal mode... didn't help.
Also, when looking back in the event log, it looks like the machine re-booted itself some time in the 2 hours when no one was around... can't figure out what caused it, though - there's a "save dump" event and a dump file, but I don't know how to use that to find out what caused the crash.
Any ideas would be welcome, either on how to look up the event that caused the problem, or on how to fix it!
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