Video Card Problems (MSI nVidia 6600GT)

[crisisred]

I've been having some computer problems and i pin pointed it to my VGA

i thought my computer was dead
but i backed everything up and formatted my hard drive
everything is working
but when i goto install the drivers for my MSI nVidia card
my computwer will restart and right after the XP loading screen it will show a very quick blue screen with a bunch of writing then restart and continue restarting


i have tried 2 sets of drivers
one off the nVidia site and the one that came with the video card
can anyone offer any insight to why this might happen?

[Deagle]

If you want to see what those error messages say, right click on the my computer icon on your desktop -> properties -> click on advanced tab -> look for startup and recovery, click on settings -> go down to system failure and uncheck automatically restart.

[Whyzman]

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Right-click My Computer> Properties> Advanced >
Startup and Recovery> Uncheck "Automatically restart

Let us know what the exact error message is...

Deagle...one extra sip of coffee and you beat me to it! :D

[saphalline]

Let me guess...

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL?

Try booting in Safe Mode and see if that works. If so, there's a driver problem somewhere. Could be related to system/video BIOS shadowing options or even the order of driver installation. Give us some more specs about your system.

[Lau]

crisisred -- I had the same type of problem with my computer a little while ago. Constant BSOD, with those weird message like the one saphalline mentioned. Anyway, it turned out my RAM was faulty. I never actually found out what was wrong with it, but I bought a new stick and I have never seen a BSOD ever since.

Hope that helps!

[saphalline]

Good point. MemTest86 that RAM and see if it comes up with any errors. You can disconnect the drives for that test.