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Help!! Newer Nvidia drivers cause hardware malfuncton!!

Jonnyapple123

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Nov 29, 2001
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I am running a Tyan Tiger MP with one Athlon XP 1.53 Gz and a Geforce 3. When i install drivers that are newer then 21.81 drivers (like 23.11 or newer leeked drivers) windows manages to boot up and then after a few seconds i get a blue screen that says "system haulted, memory parity error" . I think this may be cause by some incompatiblity with the AMD-760 MP chipset, but i dont know how to fix this so i can upgrade to the newest Nvidia drivers. If anyone has seen a problem similar to this, please tell me what can be done to fix the conflict. Thank You
 

Rand

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Oct 11, 1999
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It's the NMI Parity error, it's a bug within the nVidia Detonator drivers, typically occuring under Dually Athlon setups, but also occasionally seen with Intel dually setups also.
The problem was supposedly resolved in the 27.42 drivers, so you might want to give them a try.
 

BFG10K

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Aug 14, 2000
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Also make sure you have the latest BIOS and chipset drivers for your motherboard.