When I start my computer there are vertical lines across my sceen during boot followed by BSoD when windows loads where I believe "nvlddmkm.sys" is blamed. Looking at the crash dump in bluesceenview, "dxgkrnl.sys" is listed as the driver causing the crash.
I've tried updating my drivers from Nvidia, however, since the problem starts before the boot, I'm wondering if it's not a hardware related issue? The same type of crash happened a few times before recently, but when I restarted the lines were gone and windows loaded normally. Now I can only start windows in fail-safe mode. There are no vertical lines across the screen during fail-safe start or when windows has started in fail-safe mode
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium with a Gigabyte GA-M55S-S3 motherboard and Geforce 7300 gs graphics card
Unfortunately, I don't have another graphics card to see if that's the problem so what I'm wondering is if there's any way to tell if the problem is motherboard or graphics card related? Testing software for graphics card does not seem to work in fail-safe mode.
I've tried updating my drivers from Nvidia, however, since the problem starts before the boot, I'm wondering if it's not a hardware related issue? The same type of crash happened a few times before recently, but when I restarted the lines were gone and windows loaded normally. Now I can only start windows in fail-safe mode. There are no vertical lines across the screen during fail-safe start or when windows has started in fail-safe mode
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium with a Gigabyte GA-M55S-S3 motherboard and Geforce 7300 gs graphics card
Unfortunately, I don't have another graphics card to see if that's the problem so what I'm wondering is if there's any way to tell if the problem is motherboard or graphics card related? Testing software for graphics card does not seem to work in fail-safe mode.
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