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I have only had this video card since last October and it is crapping out on me. Several times I get BSOD (error involving nv4_disp.dll, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA), black screen, black screen that flickers, an error involving video memory.

I guess PNY makes crap vid cards.

EDIT: Which company makes decent Geforce vid cards?

You could go straight to the company that makes the Geforce chipsets themselves: My NVIDIA cards have given me excellent service, though my previous one died suddenly after 5 trouble-free years when the GPU fried itself thanks to a cooling fan failure.

Um, I'm pretty sure nVidia, unlike ATi, does not actually manufacture video cards.

Personally I've heard very good things about eVGA-brand video cards. I think the biggest thing to look for would be a lifetime warranty.

Enigma wrote:I have only had this video card since last October and it is crapping out on me. Several times I get BSOD (error involving nv4_disp.dll, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA), black screen, black screen that flickers, an error involving video memory.

I guess PNY makes crap vid cards.

EDIT: Which company makes decent Geforce vid cards?

Which card do you have? The infinite loop STOP is a known error with some fx5xxx cards with certain drivers.

Resinence wrote:

Enigma wrote:I have only had this video card since last October and it is crapping out on me. Several times I get BSOD (error involving nv4_disp.dll, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA), black screen, black screen that flickers, an error involving video memory.

I guess PNY makes crap vid cards.

EDIT: Which company makes decent Geforce vid cards?

Which card do you have? The infinite loop STOP is a known error with some fx5xxx cards with certain drivers.

PNY Geforce 7300 GT

I'd suggest BFG Technologies. They come with a factory overclock and an excellent warranty, and I've had no problems with the 7600GT I've had from them. My 6800GT died on me, but that was because I went too long without cleaning out the inside of the PC and the card's fans clogged with dust and it overheated. I RMA'd it and had a brand new one shipped back inside a week.

Uraniun235 wrote:Um, I'm pretty sure nVidia, unlike ATi, does not actually manufacture video cards.

Personally I've heard very good things about eVGA-brand video cards. I think the biggest thing to look for would be a lifetime warranty.

I owned a EVGA card once and not a single problem with them. Very nice brand in my opinion. Probably tag one of the newer 8000 series cards from them soon.

I've always bought and recommended XFX cards. I've had them myself for atleast the last 3 Geforce iterations and none of them have given me any trouble.

Well I bought an MSI 8500GT and an AMD 4800 X2. Going to start the instalation and hope nothing goes wrong.

I would recommend BFG tech also. I had one die on me (ok, not exactly the best recommendation... but) and after sending it off I recieved new one within two days.

Crap! Need help fast!

I installed both CPU and Vid card but now I get nothing onscreen.

On the initial bootup I get a message about the CMOS and that I had to go into the BIOS. I was too late in getting into it so I Ctl-Alt-Del, but on the second boot up I get nothing but a no signal message from the monitor and the monitor went in to sleep mode.

I don't get the beep that happens when you boot up and the only thing doing anything during boot up is the dvd light turned on for a second and I think the CPU fan is on (can't hear too good, but when I touch the computer I can feel it "hum".

What the hell happened? Did I fry something?

EDIT: Fixed that problem. All I needed to do was clear the CMOS. But now I am having trouble getting into windows. It constantly freezes up.

I can't successfully get into windows in Safe Mode. It brings up the BSOD, saying something about a STOP: 0x0000008e (0x80000004, 0x806ecab0, 0x805502e0, 0x00000000)

Do I have to reinstall windows XP because of changing both CPU and video card?

Not normally no. Usually you only have to do that after something like a motherboard upgrade.

Acidburns wrote:Not normally no. Usually you only have to do that after something like a motherboard upgrade.

Ahh. Looks like I have to reinstall XP. I get a message saying that Hal.dll is either missing or corrupt. I want to copy the file from this computer onto mine but I can't get a network connection. Plus I am having difficulty getting XP setup to start since everytime I get past the bootup diagnostics it just hangs and gives that Hall.dll message. How can I get the XP setup to work? I'd love a command prompt but don't know how with XP.

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, hal.dll toast, random bluescreens...sounds to me like either hard drive or system RAM, more than anything else. In particular, that stop error usually occurs, in my experience, when a system's hard drive is going funky, and is caused by an attempt to use a bad sector as virtual memory (in that situation, not every time).

Enigma, try running Windows Memory Diagnostic and see if it tosses any errors.

White Haven wrote:PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, hal.dll toast, random bluescreens...sounds to me like either hard drive or system RAM, more than anything else. In particular, that stop error usually occurs, in my experience, when a system's hard drive is going funky, and is caused by an attempt to use a bad sector as virtual memory (in that situation, not every time).

I am going to create a bootdisk and manually paste a working hall.dll and see if it works.

the PAGE error is in relation to the vid card failing since I also had error messages about not being able to access video memory. Plus HDD failures would not result in the screen going black while playing a resource intensive game like Guild Wars, Half Life 2, etc... When that happens I have to restart since the screen settings is screwed up from the black screen.

Uraniun235 wrote:Enigma, try running Windows Memory Diagnostic and see if it tosses any errors.

That would work if I can get into windows but I can't get past the hall.dll during bootup and going into Safe mode just gives me the BSOD.

Enigma wrote:

Uraniun235 wrote:Enigma, try running Windows Memory Diagnostic and see if it tosses any errors.

That would work if I can get into windows but I can't get past the hall.dll during bootup and going into Safe mode just gives me the BSOD.

Windows Memory Diagnostic isn't meant to be run within Windows; it's a bootdisk you create which loads the memory test program on startup, outside of Windows.

Uraniun235 wrote:

Enigma wrote:

Uraniun235 wrote:Enigma, try running Windows Memory Diagnostic and see if it tosses any errors.

That would work if I can get into windows but I can't get past the hall.dll during bootup and going into Safe mode just gives me the BSOD.

Windows Memory Diagnostic isn't meant to be run within Windows; it's a bootdisk you create which loads the memory test program on startup, outside of Windows.

Ok, I ran the test twice and it passed all tests twice. So it isn't RAM.

Enigma wrote:

White Haven wrote:PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, hal.dll toast, random bluescreens...sounds to me like either hard drive or system RAM, more than anything else. In particular, that stop error usually occurs, in my experience, when a system's hard drive is going funky, and is caused by an attempt to use a bad sector as virtual memory (in that situation, not every time).

I am going to create a bootdisk and manually paste a working hall.dll and see if it works.

the PAGE error is in relation to the vid card failing since I also had error messages about not being able to access video memory. Plus HDD failures would not result in the screen going black while playing a resource intensive game like Guild Wars, Half Life 2, etc... When that happens I have to restart since the screen settings is screwed up from the black screen.

Neg, Star Colonel. Crispy-fried hard drive is still a possible culprit here, given that a resource-intensive game is going to be making use of your page file, and if that's on a dodgy hard drive...

Not saying that's necessarily the case, just don't rule it out. It's also not out of the question that you may have a video card failing on you at the same time as your hard drive is experiencing a slow degeneration over time. In other words, go get and run the bloody diagnostics before you go do all manner of software reinstalls, just to be sure, otherwise you m ight just have to do it all over again when the drive finishes crapping out again. Similar case if it's memory, but our friendly neighborhood isotope already covered that.

EDIT: Also, Enigma, did you run the standard tests, or the extended ones? I'd recommend hitting the key to switch to extended test mode, the standard ones are really just cursory glances.

oh I didn't run the extended tests.

Where can I find some HDD diagnostic tests I can run off a floppy?

EDIT: Oh and during bootup, it shows that memory controller doesn't have an IRQ number, only a NA.

Well, that largely depends on your drive. Who makes it?

White Haven wrote:Well, that largely depends on your drive. Who makes it?

Samsung. But RAID names it NVIDIA.

EDIT: My RAM passed all extended tests.

Nobody's mentioned power supply yet... maybe that's the culprit?