Toshiba laptop video problem

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I recently re-installed Windows XP on a Toshiba Satellite 1415-S173,
which has nvidia Geforce4 420 GO video. Windows set up with generic
VGA driver and when I switched to the Gforce specific driver from the
Toshiba support site, windows hangs on booting. The screen goes black
and never returns after the starting windows screen. I have tried
several versions of the drivers, all with similar results. As well, I
tried installing the intel chipset drivers, including the AGP
controller, also with similar results.

After failure, booting in safe mode results in an error message,
saying that the video driver failed a drawing operation.

If I boot in VGA and go into the device manager, I notice a conflict
on the driver resources, between the display adapter and AGP
controller. Could this be the source of my problem?

Has anyone seen this before, or can suggest a solution?

Does anyone know of utilities to test for bad video cards, or debug
driver problems?

I would appreciate any assistance you can provide.

Thanks

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia.programming,comp.sys.laptops,japan.comp.toshiba (More info?)

It's almost a certainty that you have the wrong driver(s) installed. I
have installed generic XP on the same model with no problems. I have
also installed Windows 98SE, in fact mine is dual boot (if anyone needs
the procedures and drivers for 98SE on a 1415, which is not supported by
Toshiba, let me know -- EVERYTHING works, modem, sound, video, LAN ....
everything).

If you have the original restore CD, I'd use that, it does an integrated
installation with the drivers.


cdegruch wrote:

> I recently re-installed Windows XP on a Toshiba Satellite 1415-S173,
> which has nvidia Geforce4 420 GO video. Windows set up with generic
> VGA driver and when I switched to the Gforce specific driver from the
> Toshiba support site, windows hangs on booting. The screen goes black
> and never returns after the starting windows screen. I have tried
> several versions of the drivers, all with similar results. As well, I
> tried installing the intel chipset drivers, including the AGP
> controller, also with similar results.
>
> After failure, booting in safe mode results in an error message,
> saying that the video driver failed a drawing operation.
>
> If I boot in VGA and go into the device manager, I notice a conflict
> on the driver resources, between the display adapter and AGP
> controller. Could this be the source of my problem?
>
> Has anyone seen this before, or can suggest a solution?
>
> Does anyone know of utilities to test for bad video cards, or debug
> driver problems?
>
> I would appreciate any assistance you can provide.
>
> Thanks