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by elwin9

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What is it with XP all of a sudden it decides that it needs to Dump in order to protect the hardware and that you need restart for this to happen. It won?t let you do anything without the message popping up. It doesn?t do it in safe mode. So what piece or pieces of software would have caused it? There were two windows updates before it happened. One was a video driver update which I reinstalled the latest nVidea driver over it try to correct it. It didn't work so I'll try force the original driver back on and see if it works. The other update was a critical security update.
Any ideas anyone.

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by lwt

nVidia drivers are notorious for causing problems in XP. Also spyware and BHOs can cause blue screens--run AdAware or Spybot Search and Destroy on your system if the driver rollback doesn't solve the problem

by com works

I agree with answer 1 nVidia is known for causing trouble. However, there is an update that deals with this at Windows update. You can also bring up your systen properties (Windows key + Pause/Break key)click on advanced, look for the dropdown menu that says "Write debugging information" and click on it and sellect "none". Make sure that "Send an administrative alert" is un-checked and "Automatically restart is checked. While you are there, look for the line that says "Time to display list of operating systems:" set it to 3.

by elwin9

What I?ve done so far. First there was no restore points and I rolled back the drivers. I uninstalled the nVidea drivers then took the FX5600 out replaced it with an old trustee S3 1meg PCI. Still dumps with the 0X0000007F report which is as accurate as a weather report. I tested the RAM and it was fine. I then replaced the RAM with a new strip, made no difference. I?ve tested the Video card with 3DMark2001 on another system and it seems OK. If it is the video divers why is the S3 still dumping? Safe Mode has no problems, this is where I load the different drivers and do Spy ware and virus scans. The system dumps too quickly to try anything in normal windows. I disabled all the auto restart on errors? that was suggested but it still dumps. I tried a TNT64 32meg HIS Video card and used its drivers and this card is a known working card, still the same, still no good. Is there a way to strip the nVidea drivers out or isn?t it worth it?

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