BSOD

Recently my vga stopped working. It was a Geforce 7300gs.

I bought a new one a Geforce 8400gs and when I attempted to install the drivers I get BSOD, tried alot of verions of the driver, and this happens on windows xp only. I got a dual boot configuration with windows 7 and win xp. On windows 7 everything runs smoothly but on win xp it does not work. I also tried updating my mobo bios but all for nothing.

What can i do

Thanks

nope. to give you more information i get bsod immediatly when i log onto windows xp and have the driver installed. When i uninstall the driver in safe mode, pc loads normally (without vga driver).

Win xp sp3 32bit (dual boot configuration with win 7 - currently using and writing this post - no problems at all on it)

to add

even when i do a normal boot without the driver installed.

sorry forgot to write it on previous post

I solved the problem :) Found remnants of the driver of the old geforce 7300gs (Asus programs) and they seemed to cause the BSOD. Now my xp is working too.

Zurrieq said:

Recently my vga stopped working. It was a Geforce 7300gs.

I bought a new one a Geforce 8400gs and when I attempted to install the drivers I get BSOD, tried alot of verions of the driver, and this happens on windows xp only. I got a dual boot configuration with windows 7 and win xp. On windows 7 everything runs smoothly but on win xp it does not work. I also tried updating my mobo bios but all for nothing.

What can i do

Thanks

What driver are you trying to load in XP?



Ken

I solved the problem :)

I had remaining driver files of the old vga which i had to uninstall from control panel and did not notice them immediatly, and they seemed not to play well with hte new vga. Upon uninstalling them and installing the new driver 197.45 from nvidia it worked. (I had tried with various previous driver versions and kept on getting the bsod most probably due to the conflict)

Thanks