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GE Force 3 and Win 2000/ XP Help Please! I hate BSoD's!

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TeABaG88

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I have a GE Force 3 card with a P4, 256 mb RDRAM and an Intel 850 Series motherboard. I get Blue Screens of Death all the time in windows. I get them when playing a game or just even surfing the web. As soon as i load up a game, say Max Payne, it will load and then gives me a BSoD. I also get BSoD's when surfing the web or just doing something normal and I get random application crashes (not BSoD's) in addition to this. The only way that I can get my system stable is to turn down the hardware acceleration slider. This however disbales all Direct X so i cant play games or surf the web. I have done both a clean install of Windows XP Pro, with only my GE Force 3 card installed, and also a clean install of WIndows 2000 pro with just my GE Force 3 installed. I get the same type of errors in both OS's. However when I had Windows 98 installed, it worked fine. I believe that my problem is either bad RDRAM or a problem with my ge force 3 drivers in Win 2000/ XP. I currently have nvidia's 23.11 drivers installed. Has anyone else had this problem or heard of problems with the GE Force 3 in Windows 2000 / XP. I have heard of the 60 hz refresh rates problem and downloaded the fix for this but i still get the BSoD's. I get my different errors on my blue screen but usually they are either PAGE_FALUT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or it lists win32k.sys . I have been troubleshooting this for over 3 weeks and I am currently at a dead end. Thanks for any suggestions...
 
That is the odd things about my problem. It does it even when I do a freah install and just install the game to try it out. I have done fresh install after fresh install. Even with only video card present. Still the same crap.....
 
Do you know what the oldest XP drivers are? I think i have 21.83 and tried them... Thanks for the suggestions, i will try it if i find any older then that. I am wondering if it is a setting in my BIOS because other people with my same setup are not having any problems.....
 
21.81's were the first official release. You might want to FLASH your motherboard bios to the lastest revision. Set to AGP 2x, no fast writes, and disable any video shadowing and/or snooping.
 
Yeah i downloaded the latest BIOS for my motherboard, but the only settings in my BIOS for video are AGP size (64 or 256 MB) and Video Mode (AGP or PCI). I believe i have tried all of these and I have also set settings back to default and still no go. I cant change any of the other settings you listed which really stinks.
 
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