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30-Aug-2010, 09:07 PM #1
Lost video display drivers upon reboot
I have a problem that I have never experienced before. Upon about every 3rd reboot I lose my video display drivers for my NVidia card and through device manager have to automatically reinstall the drivers. Periodically this does not work either and I have to execute the setup program, let it install and reboot. Once back in Windows, I have to go back and set up the display (multi-monitor). I've run check-disk, virus/spyware scans, diagnostic scans using multiple utilities; all to no avail. Standard XP SP3 build. I am not interested in rebuilding the system at this time but would really prefer to get to the root of the problem. I have un-installed the previous drivers, over-written the drivers, everything I can think of and I am getting rather tired of this. It's a newer AMD 64bit Quad core (32 bit OS) that I built about 4 months ago.
Does anyone have any idea what I could try next or has anyone experienced this issue? While I have experienced many issues in the years in this field, this one is new to me.
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30-Aug-2010, 10:24 PM #2
You said "about every 3rd reboot". Did you try removing the video card and plugging it back in?
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30-Aug-2010, 10:28 PM #3
Yes. Done that a couple of times. I have also just reinstalled the motherboard drivers which appeared to update .net 2.0. If I don't get this figured out, in a month or so it'll be time just to do a reinstall. Thanks for the reply.
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30-Aug-2010, 10:30 PM #4
Just to clarify, what I meant by "about every 3rd reboot", I mean that about on-average every 3rd time I start the system back up after it's been shut-off for the night, the problem occurs.
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31-Aug-2010, 09:26 PM #5
What is the model name for the NVidea card? How many video cards are in your computer and are they different or the same model name video cards? I hope the video card is not broken.
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31-Aug-2010, 10:59 PM #6
It's an NVidia 9800 GT dual-headed card. I don't believe the graphics card to be an issue. It's just something qwerky with the computer. Booted up fine today.
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08-Sep-2010, 10:35 PM #7
I am having the same issue with our Nivida Card - Any clues?
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08-Sep-2010, 11:11 PM #8
None whatsoever. Planning on doing an OS dump sometime in the near-future.
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