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Plaxerous   03-28-2009 at 07:20:37 AM

After about a year and a half, my 530s dell computer has crashed and has streaking gray bars across my monitor screen I've isolated the problem down to my video card driver (8300gs) since after I uninstalled it, my computer worked fine with the Standard VGA Adapter but a LOT of functions are limited. After checking the Device Manager, it always lists my 8300gs driver as not working due to Code 43. I've tried reformatting and reinstalling OS but nothing has worked, and tried different nVidia driver versions but nothing has worked.. However, when I reinstall the video card driver back, the same crash happens. Any solutions?
Specs:
Intel E6550 @2.33GHz
Nvidia 8300gs
Windows Vista 32 Bit
Samsung SyncMaster 204BW Monitor"
I've also decided to trash my video card and power supply and buy new ones due to their poor dell quality but would like to know if these new items would solve this problem at all.
PS: I've been experiencing a lot of nvlddmkm.sys errors before the fatal crash.


Message edited by Plaxerous on 03-28-2009 at 07:28:57 AM
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evongugg   04-06-2009 at 03:15:35 PM
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Welcome to the forums!

Try the Omega drivers.

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evongugg   04-06-2009 at 03:55:53 PM
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You may have a bad video card.

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Snake Plisskin   10-10-2009 at 04:15:10 AM
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I had the same problem with a Dell Inspiron 530 machine running Vista Ultimate installed with an Nvidia Gforce 8300 gS and getting an error 43. Machine would fatally crash everytime and screen is all pixelated with garbage. Tried doing several things to recover:

1. Tried restoring windows to an earlier entry point. (did not work)
2. Tried cold boot and F12 to enter startup menu, selected the "Fix or repair Windows" which took about 20 minutes or so. It determined that I had a video driver issue or possible corruption. Went through the fix and then it restored windows. (this did not work, but at least I am narrowing down the problem)
3. At this point I am beginning to think total OS reinstallation, so I rebooted the computer and enter F12 and proceeded to start windows in safe mode. I cleaned up my computer, backed all important files to an external drive, then opened up the device driver inside control panels, located the nvidia card, then clicked on the driver tab. I uninstalled the nvidia driver completely. It gave me a bunch of warning, but just answer OK to those. After uninstall, I rebooted the computer up again and entered windows normally. After I was back on the desktop, Vista reinstalled the nvidia drivers from back up file I had on a D: partion, designed for such recoveries. If you do not have this kind of setup, then make sure you have the Nvidia Driver CD, because you would need that to reinstall the driver. I rebooted the computer one more time and all is working. As a matter a fact, the computer is running alot faster right now after the driver reinstall and of course the clean up. I am guessing some update I received either from automatic updates or other third party software possibly even Norton, caused the driver corruption.
The last option is always reinstalling the OS and all drivers over again, but only as a last resort. If all that doesn't work and 98% percent of the time it usually does, then it may be a bad video card.


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