[Number3124]

Yesterday I upgraded my PC (finally). I installed 2gigs of PNY Optima PC2700 RAM, an LG 18x Super Multi DVD Rewriter GSA-H54L, and an 512mb DDR2 AGP 8x PNY nVidia GeForce 7600 GS. Every thing was going fine until I installed the video card. I booted up alright so I decided to test it by playing LOTR: The Return of the King and that worked fine until I uped the resolution the it blue screened I wrote down what it said just to be safe. It said: BadPoolCaller, then the technical information was *Stop:0x000000c2 (0x00000007,0x00000CD4,0x00000000,0x892C2B50). Then when it rebooted every thing was crashing even my AV program, Kaspersky 6.0, so I re started it again then it wouldn't boot so I booted it in safe mode and that worked so I rebooted it normally and did a system restore and reinstalled the video card and so hasn't crashed yet, so what happened, why did it blue screen and and why was it crashing?

P.S. Firefox actually crashed while I was writing this, so I don't know what the hecks going on.

[mcbarker]

I believe that it's an nVidia driver problem. Make sure that you have the latest nVidia driver software for your card. Since yours is a 7600 series card, the software that came with it is probably out of date. Before updating, make sure that you completely uninstal your current video drivers.

[piyushsingh]

hi number!
A similar thing had troubled me some time back. I used to play nfs most wanted at highest settings and if while playing i did alt+F4, it would result in blue screen.This happened everytime I did it.Though it was fine when i searched for some fixes regarding geforce products on vista.The latest forceware version is 169.21, see if it solves your problems.
But one thing is strange why did it crashed even when you werent playing ?

[Number3124]

Ok, where can I find them?

[VladTheImpaler1990]

Hey there well you can download it at this following site Nvidia driver download but remember you must make sre of your:

OS

Type of graphics card ( Go.....)

Good luck

[Number3124]

Ok, thanks I'll take care of that next time I'm some where with I speed internet, but if any one has any more ideas keep them coming.

[coastie65]

Hi number, Last I heard, Verizon was building their FiOS down there. Well, in Newport News and Virginia Beach anyway. I haven't heard anything about Hampton, Norfolk, or Portsmouth. An old shipmate of mine who lives up here in Hanover Co. got frustrated with getting dropped on dial up and called Verizon. He couldn't get DSL, and Comcast stopped 1/4 mile from his house. Anyway, Verizon came out and took some readings and hooked him up with WiFi on his desktop. He was a distance away from the tower so the signal was weak and cut down on his Connection speed, but it was still much better than Dial up although less than DSL. He said it was better than what he had and freed up the phone while he was online. I know Verizon is building FiOS in that huge area, but it will take awhile. They still have a long way to go here in the Richmond area and I got wired in Sept. '06. coastie65

[Number3124]

I was going to download it Tuesday at my library, but thanks for the news and I'll be happy to wait for FiOS.

[coastie65]

You can go to www.verizon.net/fios and follow the links and key in the information and you may get an idea as to when it be available. coastie65

[Number3124]

I was wondering about that my self, piyush. It blue screened yesterday while my sister was checking her e-mail (she uses yahoo), here's the message: PageFaultInNonpageArea. Tech Info *Stop:0x00000050 (0xc0b5df24, 0x00000000, 0x804eef61, 0x00000002).

[Number3124]

Ok the driver update didn't work it's still crashing. It blue screened twice yesterday I wrote down the messages.

The first one was:

Tech Info

*Stop:0x0000008e (0xc0000005, 0xb70066a7,0xb663fa9c, 0x00000000)

* Klif.sys_Address b70066a7 base atb6ee000, Datestamp 44d328c7

and the second was:

Tech Info

*Stop :0x0000008e (0x0000005, 0x80511403, 0xb6dfe9e8, 0x00000000) .

[coastie65]

Hi number, This is an outside shot, but you could have gotten some bad sticks. I ran into a similar situation when I upgraded memory. I had origianally put in Centon sticks. I took them back and got a pair of PNY that worked fine. I don't see anything else you've done that should be causing problems. coastie65

[mcbarker]

Klif.sys is a Kaspersky file. Did you disable (shut down) your antivirus before trying to install the driver? If not, you may have to uninstall, then reinstall the drivers again, this time making sure that your antivirus and antispyware is shut off. Do NOT connect to the Internet while protection is shut off. You could try running your system while Kaspersky is shut down to see if that's where the conflict is. If the BSOD disappear, then we'll know where to focus our attention. Again... No Internet while unprotected.

[Number3124]

I turned off all AV protection while I was up-dating the driver, no problems there, so that can't be, it can it? I'll give it a shot, but I'm starting to think that, like coastie said, the RAM sticks might be bad.

[piyushsingh]

hi number!
have you been able to solve this problem .
have a look at this .I have seen this on other places also.
You blue screen error codes have a similarity. Each of your codes are supposed to have different causes with one cause common i.e faulty memory (ram,video memory or cache).So maybe cosatie was correct .Try using memtest86 or you may use it from your ubuntu boot menu.

Other causes are AV software (but you say that u disabled it and then also same problem), corrupted ntfs partiotions (try running the chkdsk /f /r utility) .

[Number3124]

Hey guys, it's been a while sense I've posted here. I haven't been able to fix it myself, even with you guys' help, so I caved today and took it up to a pc repair shop. They said they'll probably be able to fix in a couple of days. I'll tell you what was wrong with it as soon as I know.

[coastie65]

Hi number, Sorry you had to put that thing in the shop. I was just rereading all these posts. Everything looked good as far as the Nvidia driver updates as far as turning off anti virus and anti spyware. The thing that suddenly jumped out at me was the fact I saw no mention of uninstalling the Nvidia drivers BEFORE the update, which MUST be done. You CAN NOT have any Nvidia drivers installed when updating. coastie65

[piyushsingh]

Number3124 said:

Hey guys, it's been a while sense I've posted here. I haven't been able to fix it myself, even with you guys' help, so I caved today and took it up to a pc repair shop. They said they'll probably be able to fix in a couple of days. I'll tell you what was wrong with it as soon as I know.

lets see what they come up with, good luck.




hi coastie!
i agree with you , a clean install is always better than adding updates to the initial thing especially with the drivers.

[coastie65]

Hi piyush, I just went through that yesterday with this thing. My graphics started acting up in a bad way with no warning. I checked the device manager and saw that it listed the card, but no drivers. Just a yellow triangle with the exclaimation point. I didn't fool around with it. I went to add/remove programs and the drivers came up, so I removed them. I went to Windows explorer and ran a search to see if anything was left behind and removed that as well. I then went to evga and downloaded and installed the latest drivers. Everthing is back to normal again, but what a pain. I do have a Toolbar in here that is interferring with Windows Messenger at start up, and e-mail preview. This just surfaced and I removed it yesterday and all was fine except for the graphics issue. I did a system restore, trying to straighten out the graphics issue, and got that stinkin Toolbar back. I have been unable to find it as yet. It isn't a problem, just a pain at the moment. I have run several different security scans, and nothing has surfaced regarding that toolbar. It apparantly just doesn't play well with Windows, although I remember when I was at that site looking for some additional emos for my IM ( there was a link). Oh well, I'll find that sucker and get rid of it. LOL coastie65

[Number3124]

I did think I of that I couple of weeks ago and couldn't remember if I had so I reinstalled the divers like you said and it didn't do anything. That aside I got a call from the guys I took it to they said it was a combination of defective ram and a corrupt HDD, so I'm going to get it back on Monday, wish me luck.