Help Video trouble

[rc23]

My PC has had a bit of a meltdown. In the last few weeks I got escalating program crashes and blue screens. Finally leading to my PC not being able to boot into windows. Eventually I found I had a bad stick of RAM and pulled it.

Now my PC is back running (using it now), but i have a video problem. My radeon 9500pro is listed in device manager with a warning. I've pulled the card and installed an old geforce2 card and it has the same problem (warning in device manager). Before my memory problem I did not have any video errors.

Display properties is messed up as well. Right clicking on the desktop will bring up display properties, but it only shows themes. If I change the theme i will get the other display properties (themes, desktop, screen saver, etc...), but they will go away again shortly after swaping the theme. Also moving windows/scrolling on the desktop seems very jerky.

Any suggestions on what to do next ? Is this a driver problem ?

 

[montag451]

Try reinstalling the chipset drivers AFTER you have wiped all traces of the vga drivers off your system.
Think there is a program floating around called 'driver cleaner' or 'driver wiper' that will do that.

Don't reboot between wiping drivers and reinstalling chipset drivers.

If that doesn't work - try
START
RUN
type SFC \scannow

reboot and see if that does it.
[don't suppose you had a system restore point set to before the RAM probs have you?]

 

[daniel49]

did I miss it? I didn't see where you said what the warning was?
I would think it might be a good time to update your catalyst drivers sounds like something got corrupted with them

 

[rc23]

I didn't think to reinstall new chipset drivers. I'll try that. I did install the latest catalyst drivers. No change. Used the current Nvidia drivers when I tried the Geforce2 card.

The warning in device manager for both the radeon9500pro and the geforce2 card was the same. ( This device cannot start (Code 10) ).

Also just now I tried booting back up. For some reason my monitor stayed in power savig mode. Leaving me with a black screen. The PC sounded like it booted normally. Once i heard the windows start up noice i did a CTRL-ESC, U, U to shut down my machine. I did this twice before i got the monitor back running.

 

[montag451]

Can you look in EVENT VIEWER

control panel
administrative tools
event viewer.

look for any X or !
Supply us with the Source, Event ID, and any text

 

[rc23]

***In Event Viewer\Applications***
I have several of these warnings.

! Warning Source:Userenv Windows saved user [My user name] registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use.

Also listed are a few
x Error Source: Application Error
x Error Source: Application hang

I haven't gotten any application errors since I pulled the bad RAM.

***Event\Security has no listings.***

***Event\System has lots of errors.***

X Error Source:RasMan: Remote Access Connectin Manager failed to start because the Point to point protocal failed to initialize. The specified module could not be found. (( lots of this error ))

X Error Source: Service Control Manager: The Remote Access Connection Manager service terminated with the following error: The specified module could not be found (( lots of this error ))

these last errors are from 3/31 from before i pulled the bad ram.

X Error Source: Workstation: Could not load any transport

X Error Source: Service Control Manager: Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the symantec event manager service to connect.

X Error Source: Service Control Manafer: The IPSEC Services service terminated with the following error: The specified module could not be found.

X Error Source: Disk The driver detected a controller error on \device\harddisk0\D

X Error Source: DCOM : The sever {F3A614DC-ABE0-11D2-A441-00C04F795683} did not reguster with DCOM within the required timeout (( three of these ))

 

[montag451]

Does it say 'X' or does it give anything else?

 

[rc23]

I listed the bad events i saw in the event viewer.

Where i put Source: xxxx , this stands for what is in the source coloum of the event viewer. What comes after is what was listed in the event properties under description of the event.