FlyingPenguins

I've been getting Blue Screen stop errors recently that I believe have been triggered by drivers of some sort - either graphics, sound, or motherboard, but mostly Nvidia GeForce 4 MX Integrated GPU drivers. I only reinstalled my OS slightly more than a month ago.

The first few times this happened was about a month ago, when I first installed RollerCoaster Tycoon 3. A few seconds after the game was started, the computer would usually display the BSoD. I thought the game was compatible with the GPU, but it wasn't. Fair enough; I uninstalled the game. This was happening with drivers bundled with a CD when I bought my computer - they're from around 2002. They continue to happen whenever I open a program using medium 3D graphics, even ones that are listed to be compatible with the GPU. About half a month ago, I upgraded my GeForce 4 drivers to Forceware 81.98. Any drivers released after it cause problems with programs utilising OpenGL, and displays a black screen.

These BSoDs have been occuring a lot today however. Three have appeared in 4 hours... one of which happened while I was typing this post. The first one occurred while playing an older 2D game. The second happened during normal internet browsing. Both of these appear with an error exactly like this one, which I took a picture of when RCT3 was crashing a month ago:

Same problematic driver file in most cases - nv4disp.dll. However, the third one occurred while I was listening to music on Winamp while typing this post - I believe is related to a sound driver; they have never caused problems yet. It looked like this:

and with a error dump (when appears in that "serious error" box after restarting the computer): What should I do? The computer is spontaneously popping up BSoDs, and I have upcoming important tasks that I have to do.

dai

in the device manager uninstall the card
reboot tapping f8 and choose vga mode
when windows finishes rebooting
disable a/virus
install your drivers
reboot the computer

FlyingPenguins

Ok, I've tried what you suggested dai. I booted into vga mode, put internet modem on standby, disabled Resident Shield on AVG, uninstalled the current drivers, and restarted the comp. I rebooted into vga mode again, and installed the drivers bundled with my comp, and restarted the computer into normal mode. Now the graphics refresh at 1 Hz, and when you try to move a window or scroll up or down a webpage, it redraws itself very slowly.

I think I may have a malware problem causing the BSoDs - I'm also getting random IE and Firefox crashes as well. Judging by Session Manager, Firefox crashed at least 8 times in the last hour. I'm going to post a HijackThis log.

dai

when you go into vga mode you install the drivers you don't reboot again first

FlyingPenguins

^ Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to make a difference. The graphics driver still doesn't show up in Add/Remove Programs.

This time I just tried going into normal mode, removing each GeForce and Nforce driver and reinstalling them, rebooting whenever it prompted. I deactivated antivirus this time, and it worked (deactivating it didn't make a difference the last few times).

Hopefully no more BSoDs will appear. Thanks for the help anyways.

dai

only security can deal with security matters