BSOD STOP: 0xB4 VIDEO INITIALIZATION FAILURE

motanicus · 11-03-2008, 04:01 PM

Having the Same issue on Inspiron 6000 with ATI gpu.
Stop 0xB4. Will not boot into safe mode. Will not get past a certain point loading from a windows disk (setup/repair), same message for every attempt. The message comes up while loading system files. It seems that the video drivers or IRQs may be corrupt/conflicting. The bios does not allow for IRQ setting changes. I read that adjusting the amount of virtual memory on the pagefile will fix this message as well, but since I can't load the OS I have no way to determine.

The only reference I could find regarding this error and windows XP was at http://www.pcsupportsource.com/xp_stop_messages.htm . Unfortunately it doesn't give much information except to try booting into safemode which is not possible. I did, however ,find an IRQ setting change on the MSDN website for this stop code in Win2k, but again... not being able to access the IRQ settings in the bios is kinda hurting my progress. Any suggestions?

**TriggerFinger** · 11-04-2008, 10:28 AM

Does it behave the same when you run something like Knoppix or Ubuntu via a live CD?

motanicus · 11-08-2008, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by TriggerFinger

Does it behave the same when you run something like Knoppix or Ubuntu via a live CD?

Actually while running a live cd it works perfectly. I tried to manually uninstall SP3 but the folder that usually contains the SP3 uninstall file was empty. Something tells me that I got a fragmented download of the update and it installed anyway... regardless, we had to reformat and start over. Seems like SP3 is the culprit, I've seen 3 - 4 machines with DNS and BSOD problems after installing it in the last few days.

11-03-2008, 04:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
motanicus Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 3 OS: XP	BSOD STOP: 0xB4 VIDEO INITIALIZATION FAILURE Having the Same issue on Inspiron 6000 with ATI gpu. Stop 0xB4. Will not boot into safe mode. Will not get past a certain point loading from a windows disk (setup/repair), same message for every attempt. The message comes up while loading system files. It seems that the video drivers or IRQs may be corrupt/conflicting. The bios does not allow for IRQ setting changes. I read that adjusting the amount of virtual memory on the pagefile will fix this message as well, but since I can't load the OS I have no way to determine. The only reference I could find regarding this error and windows XP was at http://www.pcsupportsource.com/xp_stop_messages.htm . Unfortunately it doesn't give much information except to try booting into safemode which is not possible. I did, however ,find an IRQ setting change on the MSDN website for this stop code in Win2k, but again... not being able to access the IRQ settings in the bios is kinda hurting my progress. Any suggestions?

11-04-2008, 10:28 AM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,823 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: BSOD STOP: 0xB4 VIDEO INITIALIZATION FAILURE Does it behave the same when you run something like Knoppix or Ubuntu via a live CD? __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE