- May 10, 2002
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First, please forgive me if this has already come up. I took a quick look through, but didn't do a thorough search to see if this has already been discussed.
Last week when I upgraded to the new nForce4 Standalone Kit, I started experiencing the BSOD problems. The new driver worked great for resolving the NCQ problems from the shipping driver, so I didn't really want to ditch it completely. The files reported in the BSOD were related to the ethernet driver, so I re-installed just that driver from the CD that came with the board. Everything has been running great!
Over the last week, while following various threads on BSOD troubles, particularly with respect to the Unreal engine, I noticed people were resolving it by disabling the NX feature (No eXecute, or DEP) in WinXP SP2. I did the same, re-installed the new ethernet driver, and so far everything seems to be fine.
I suspect some UT2K4 players out there never experienced the BSOD problems with the new drivers because they've already done this.
Instructions stolen from here
Last week when I upgraded to the new nForce4 Standalone Kit, I started experiencing the BSOD problems. The new driver worked great for resolving the NCQ problems from the shipping driver, so I didn't really want to ditch it completely. The files reported in the BSOD were related to the ethernet driver, so I re-installed just that driver from the CD that came with the board. Everything has been running great!
Over the last week, while following various threads on BSOD troubles, particularly with respect to the Unreal engine, I noticed people were resolving it by disabling the NX feature (No eXecute, or DEP) in WinXP SP2. I did the same, re-installed the new ethernet driver, and so far everything seems to be fine.
I suspect some UT2K4 players out there never experienced the BSOD problems with the new drivers because they've already done this.
Instructions stolen from here
To disable DEP, perform the following actions:
* Click Start -> Run
* Enter Attrib C:\Boot.ini -r -h -s
* Edit C:\Boot.ini with Notepad
* Under [operating systems] replace the parameter /NoExecute with /Execute
* Save the Boot.ini file
* Click Start -> Run
* Enter Attrib C:\Boot.ini +r +h +s
* Restart your computer
IMPORTANT: Save a copy of your original Boot.ini file as a backup before you make changes!