nv4_disp error? Please help.

Gaskarthfan

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I don't know much about my laptop computer but it's a Dell, Latitude D260; Before when I opened it on safe mode it said that it was Windows XP Professional service pack 3, I tried to take it back to the last good state it had but then the screen went completely black and didn't do anything for an hour. I bought it refurbished so I don't know if any of the stickers would be correct for it. This is the second time it's gotten this way. First time all I needed the most was the re-installation cd and playing around with it. I can't get it past one of the two pixel screens or lightened black screen, or past the blue screen that says either one of the two "nv4_disp error" and "IRQL_Not_Less_or_equal." I only had my laptop mouse connected to it in the USB hookup at the time it did this and when I went to remove the battery to make sure it was completely shut off it felt warm. Would I be able to download anything from my desktop to a flash drive that will make it work? The service tag is 8VR11D1

I know this site shows to run something on the computer to find it, but this is the only working computer that I can get on, the laptop I can't.

Also, it continues to say that the Drivers are stuck in an infinite loop along with the same information it gives... "STOP: 0x000000EA, 0x8641FD8, 0xF7A55CBC, 0x00000001"

Got the laptop to open up in safe mode, shows the bottom halfway on the screen. Tried to restore back to May 1st, system restore point. Says that "F" driver was shut off or removed.

It showed after a while; "Hardware malfunction
NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity error
System Halted.."

I got it to start up like normal, well, slightly normal.
It showed a window saying that "Windows has recovered from an error."
It kept flashing every so often then it just turned to a lightened black screen.
It was also installing a windows update and the antivirus program started running.

And now it's showing a blue screen with a black bar vertically when I turn it back on each time and it's blinking.

UPDATE:
I hooked it up to an external monitor and had pixel screens show on there too, anything that happened on the laptop screen happened too on the external, including flashing.
 
Hi,

Looks like you got bad memory stick, you could get them out and check you you get the problem when you boot with one at the time.
If you still get the problem you might have a bad mobo or bad integrated graphic card.

If it's not under warranty anymore, you might want to consider a new laptop because the repairs will cost around 300$: not worth it
 

Gaskarthfan

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Would I be able to get on there to get the files from the computer to save elsewhere?

I hooked it up to an external monitor and had pixel screens show on there too, anything that happened on the laptop screen happened too on the external, including flashing.
 

TenPc

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You might be able to disable memory parity check in the bios, it infers the wrong type of memory installed or a bad stick.

If you got more than one ram stick, remove one of them, alternate between them.
1GB 533MHz DDR2 RAM (2 x 512MB config)
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2846

The nv4_disp, you have to use the Dell version and not the Nvidia version, Dell add extra information to make it compatible to their products only.