Someone PLEASE help me? My Nvidia drivers suddenly lock me up in XP now...

CheapJabroni

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Hey guys,
I need some serious help. My computer has been running fine these past 3 weeks since upgrading from 2000 to windows xp, but yesterday I was playing the game "Max Payne" on my computer when it suddenly locked up, yes, locked up in XP. I did a manual shutoff through the power switch since i couldn't reboot, turned it on, the computer booted fine, until it got past the Windows XP boot screen...at which point I just got a blank, black, silent screen that never ends. After going into safe mode and looking through everything (including turning everything off in msconfig and rebooting, ) I discovered that the computer only boots successfully when I uninstall my Nvidia GeForce 2 driver...and after it boots it automatically reinstalls it and I'm back to square one again. I even downloaded the latest Detonator drivers and they don't do a thing.

The 2 errors in my error log when I run it under safe mode EVERY time I've rebooted are:
1)The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was
8007043C from line 44 of d:\nt\com\com1x\src\events\tie r1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact
Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.

2)Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr =
0x80040206.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on?...Is there an easy way for quick repair like there was on the Win2k cd? Is there a way to reinstall the OS without having 2 XPs on my system (or at least a way to delete the old one).

Also, a couple days ago I also installed Morpheus, Imesh, Bearshare, and Limewire for downloading purposes, might those have any influence? Someone please help me out here...I drastically need my computer right now ...thanks...

My rig:
Athlon 1.2 gig Athlon 266 FSB
Epox 8KHA
512 Crucial RAM
VisionTek Nvidia GeForce 2
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Wacom Graphire 2 Pen tablet
 

SuperSix

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Can you get it running long enough to do Windows Update? I ran that the other day and therewas a driver update.. This assumes you have a legal copy installed. :D
 

Insidious

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One of those error reports said something about shadowing.... make sure video RAM shadowing is disabled in your BIOS, (also should disable Video BIOS cache)

The blank screen sounds like maybe your monitor is going into a protected mode due to an impropper refresh rate being set by your vid. drivers... try going to

safe mode and setting it to 60Hz (just for a test) and then see if you can boot..... (detonators don't like the Automatic refresh rate selection of the video drivers very much.... if the 60Hz works, set it to the max allowable for your desktop resolution, and don't run any application in a resolution that is higher than or a color
setting depth that is greater than your desktop.