Ever since installing the 21.81 Detonators, my system's been crashing before too long when running 3d games. HL, CS, Op Flash, Tribes 2, Serious Sam...
Sometimes it'll crash to the desktop, with an error message about the instruction at address 34252345 tried to reference 312443545 and the memory could not be "read". Sometimes it's "written" but usually "read."
A few times, it's crashed to the desktop with no error message.
In HL or CS, it'll usually just lock up totally, requiring a power-cycle or reset.
In Tribes 2, it'll usually throw an Unhandled Exception.
There've even been a few times when IE did the "memory could not be'read'" thing.
I've reverted back to the 12.41 drivers (and disabled the "nvidia helper" service that removing the 21.81's *didn't* get rid of) which never gave me any problems, but the the crashes/locks are still going strong.
I've reinstalled DirectX, even though I run most of this stuff with OpenGL.
I've reinstalled my soundcard drivers.
I can't think of anything else to do, short of finding and removing all nvidia files (somehow) and removing every nvidia reference from my registry by hand. Some people have mentioned Detonator Destroyer, but according to thier webpage, they're only for 9x and ME, not Win2k.
Has anyone run the Det Destroyer on a win2k system, or know of something else that'll do the same thing?
Win2k sp2
GeForce2 GTS
SB Live! 5.1 X-Gamer
Athlon 1GHz / Asus A7A266 - ALi AGP driver v 1.73
Sometimes it'll crash to the desktop, with an error message about the instruction at address 34252345 tried to reference 312443545 and the memory could not be "read". Sometimes it's "written" but usually "read."
A few times, it's crashed to the desktop with no error message.
In HL or CS, it'll usually just lock up totally, requiring a power-cycle or reset.
In Tribes 2, it'll usually throw an Unhandled Exception.
There've even been a few times when IE did the "memory could not be'read'" thing.
I've reverted back to the 12.41 drivers (and disabled the "nvidia helper" service that removing the 21.81's *didn't* get rid of) which never gave me any problems, but the the crashes/locks are still going strong.
I've reinstalled DirectX, even though I run most of this stuff with OpenGL.
I've reinstalled my soundcard drivers.
I can't think of anything else to do, short of finding and removing all nvidia files (somehow) and removing every nvidia reference from my registry by hand. Some people have mentioned Detonator Destroyer, but according to thier webpage, they're only for 9x and ME, not Win2k.
Has anyone run the Det Destroyer on a win2k system, or know of something else that'll do the same thing?
Win2k sp2
GeForce2 GTS
SB Live! 5.1 X-Gamer
Athlon 1GHz / Asus A7A266 - ALi AGP driver v 1.73
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