Sectorgame

I'll recap:

My PC wouldn't boot and gave a BIOS error (the beeps). Stuffed in a new AGP GPU and it seemed happy-ish. Get occasional auto-reboots when starting applications and failure of Windows to start-up. I noticed the GPU doesn't fit in the slot too great. The metal-part of the GPU, for the various ports, is a couple of mm too big and seems to push the card out of the slot to a degree.

I found by wiggling the card, remvoing and reinserting it and messing with the white multi-plus that connect the card to the H/drives would usually fix the problem, atleast untill I would go back x days later and would have to repeat the process (it's a second PC so it's get's shut down when not in use).

Annoying as this was I lived with it as I don't have the money (or really the inclination) for a new PC.

Anyway, I recently installed SUPER and it reports a H/drive fault, though SUPER appears to work okay, and I've noticed a blue screen would very briefly appear prior to each reboot. This only started appearing in the past couple of days.
All the Windos diagnostics appear to report no errors, atleast as far as I can tell.

Maybe something is wrong with your video card.......

The mainboard BIOS, or the video card BIOS?

You can make a good PC for little cost now, by the way.

Right click My Computer => System Properties => Advanced tab => Startup and Recovery Settings.

Turn off Automatically Restart.

Write down your error codes when they turn up, then search them in Microsoft's help database. It'll tell you (vaguely, sometimes, unfortunately) where the problem is occuring.

(Don't know what the gravedig rules are here but it was slow as hell when I last posted so 10 days probably isn't too much of a stretch)

freespace2pilot wrote:Right click My Computer => System Properties => Advanced tab => Startup and Recovery Settings.

Turn off Automatically Restart.

Write down your error codes when they turn up, then search them in Microsoft's help database. It'll tell you (vaguely, sometimes, unfortunately) where the problem is occuring.

(Don't know what the gravedig rules are here but it was slow as hell when I last posted so 10 days probably isn't too much of a stretch)

well Icouldn't be bothered with it for the past week so don't worry about the bumpage. Tried resetting the properties and try as I might I can't provoke the error. Ah well, no doubt it reappear soon enough.

Oh! I nearly forgot! I managed to get a bluescreen error message. Seems there's a problem with "nv4_disp.dll"

Don't really know what that means though.

Reinstall your NVidia drivers.