BSOD on YouTube

[King56]

I'm having a problem where, completely randomly, my computer will freeze but the sound will still play, and this happens on YouTube only. The freeze lasts a little bit before my computer gets the blue screen and restarts. It's completely random, I can go hours on YouTube without a problem or it can happen within minutes.

I attached the minidump file that was created on the latest crash if that even helps (?).

 

[blues_harp28]

Dump file shows.
nv4 disp.dll

nv4 disp.dll file is used by Nvidia cards.
Update your Video card drivers.

 

[King56]

My card is a GeForce 8500 GT, and I'm using Windows XP 32 bit. I'm using older drivers as well (275.33) because I was told that with this card I don't need the latest ones.

Also, when installing new drivers should I uninstall everything related to nvidia first? Which would be the driver and PhysX software. So I would uninstall those, restart, reinstall new ones, and restart again?

Could you post a link to the exact drivers I should use?

Thanks!

 

[blues_harp28]

Drivers - GeForce
http://www.geforce.com/Drivers

NVIDIA DRIVERS 9.10.0513
http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.10.0513-driver.html

Run the scan for the drivers you need.

Always download drivers First - before uninstalling the old ones.

 

[King56]

Alright, new drivers are installed and running (old ones gone obviously).

Always download drivers First - before uninstalling the old ones.

Just out of curiosity, why is that? Because it would be hard to navigate to the page without proper display?

 

[blues_harp28]

Yes that is the reason.