System Specs:
CPU: Intel P4 3.6Ghz
RAM: 2Gb DDR2 533Mhz
MB: Abit GD8 Pro
GPU: eVGA Geforce 8600 GT upgraded to XFX Geforce GTX 260
Monitor: Sceptre wNaga20"
I recently bought a Geforce GTX 260. It was running fine at first (Crysis looked great). But after a couple hours I was watching a youtube video when green squares appeared everywhere and then the comp froze. When I rebooted the comp wouldn't start proplerly. It would post and Windows XP would load but before reaching the Login screen it would freeze indefinately at a black screen. Sometimes I'd get a BSOD and it would restart on its own. I put the old GPU in and it worked fine. Microsoft troubleshooting told me the problem was an "Error message in Windows XP: 'STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER'"
and suggested that I reinstall the drivers and/or turn off all hardware accelleration and disable write combining.
The nVidia driver is the same for both cards and since the 8600 GT was working fine I was skeptical but I reinstalled it and that seemed to work, I could finally boot up with the GTX 260. For some reason, good measure I suppose, I still decided to turn off all hardware acceleration and write combining which is when everything else went downhill.
Both cards will boot up properly but I got stuck in a safe mode-like state of low res. My comp no longer registered my monitor, other than it being a standard plug & play, and said it wouldn't support resolution above 800x640 w/ 4bit color. My dvd rom and second hard drive weren't recognized either so I can't try and reinstall the monitor w/ the CD. The monitor's website only gives me an INF file for the driver which I dont know how to use or install. I put turned on write combining and upped the hardware acceleration back to full but with no results. This is happening for both cards.
I don't know if the rest is related but I'm also getting a lot of random errors that all started around the same time. I will add that I downloaded Crysis from a torrent and while the game runs fine my AVG anti-virus scanner did detect a "Trojanhorse Backdoor.Generic9.syd" when installing. As far as I was aware, however, AVG successfully healed the virus.
I'm getting a lot of DCOM 1000 eventID errors from explorer. System event msg reads, "Unable to start DCOM server. The system cannot find the file specified" Then it lists a random google or explorer source, ending w/ "-Embedding."
AIM will run but shuts down when I try to send an IM.
I'm getting the following popup error msg at random, but with no noticible effect:
"Instruction at "0x03f54dfb" referenced memory at "0x03f54dfb". The memory could not be read."
I've tried pulling the cards, restarting, reinstalling the drivers, running my anti-spyware and anti-virus software (both AVG) but nothing will get me out of this safe-mode-like state... HELP PLEASE! Thanks to anyone that can.
Below please find a hijack this log as well:
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 1:17:21 AM, on 10/12/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16705)
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgcc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\RTHDCPL.EXE
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\guard.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgamsvr.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgupsvc.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgemc.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7DEBUG\MDM.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\PnkBstrA.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Viewpoint\Common\ViewpointService.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07\bin\jusched.exe
C:\Program Files\PowerISO\PWRISOVM.EXE
C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EADM\Core.exe
C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
C:\Program Files\Viewpoint\Viewpoint Manager\ViewMgr.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgwb.dat
C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\avgas.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Drivers & Applications\HiJackThis\HijackThis.exe
CPU: Intel P4 3.6Ghz
RAM: 2Gb DDR2 533Mhz
MB: Abit GD8 Pro
GPU: eVGA Geforce 8600 GT upgraded to XFX Geforce GTX 260
Monitor: Sceptre wNaga20"
I recently bought a Geforce GTX 260. It was running fine at first (Crysis looked great). But after a couple hours I was watching a youtube video when green squares appeared everywhere and then the comp froze. When I rebooted the comp wouldn't start proplerly. It would post and Windows XP would load but before reaching the Login screen it would freeze indefinately at a black screen. Sometimes I'd get a BSOD and it would restart on its own. I put the old GPU in and it worked fine. Microsoft troubleshooting told me the problem was an "Error message in Windows XP: 'STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER'"
and suggested that I reinstall the drivers and/or turn off all hardware accelleration and disable write combining.
The nVidia driver is the same for both cards and since the 8600 GT was working fine I was skeptical but I reinstalled it and that seemed to work, I could finally boot up with the GTX 260. For some reason, good measure I suppose, I still decided to turn off all hardware acceleration and write combining which is when everything else went downhill.
Both cards will boot up properly but I got stuck in a safe mode-like state of low res. My comp no longer registered my monitor, other than it being a standard plug & play, and said it wouldn't support resolution above 800x640 w/ 4bit color. My dvd rom and second hard drive weren't recognized either so I can't try and reinstall the monitor w/ the CD. The monitor's website only gives me an INF file for the driver which I dont know how to use or install. I put turned on write combining and upped the hardware acceleration back to full but with no results. This is happening for both cards.
I don't know if the rest is related but I'm also getting a lot of random errors that all started around the same time. I will add that I downloaded Crysis from a torrent and while the game runs fine my AVG anti-virus scanner did detect a "Trojanhorse Backdoor.Generic9.syd" when installing. As far as I was aware, however, AVG successfully healed the virus.
I'm getting a lot of DCOM 1000 eventID errors from explorer. System event msg reads, "Unable to start DCOM server. The system cannot find the file specified" Then it lists a random google or explorer source, ending w/ "-Embedding."
AIM will run but shuts down when I try to send an IM.
I'm getting the following popup error msg at random, but with no noticible effect:
"Instruction at "0x03f54dfb" referenced memory at "0x03f54dfb". The memory could not be read."
I've tried pulling the cards, restarting, reinstalling the drivers, running my anti-spyware and anti-virus software (both AVG) but nothing will get me out of this safe-mode-like state... HELP PLEASE! Thanks to anyone that can.
Below please find a hijack this log as well:
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 1:17:21 AM, on 10/12/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16705)
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgcc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\RTHDCPL.EXE
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\guard.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgamsvr.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgupsvc.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgemc.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7DEBUG\MDM.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\PnkBstrA.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Viewpoint\Common\ViewpointService.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07\bin\jusched.exe
C:\Program Files\PowerISO\PWRISOVM.EXE
C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EADM\Core.exe
C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
C:\Program Files\Viewpoint\Viewpoint Manager\ViewMgr.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgwb.dat
C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\avgas.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Drivers & Applications\HiJackThis\HijackThis.exe
