Those that are having problems with 3.78 drivers

[GrannyPantyRaider 0]

I have an Athlon 650 on a k7 pro running a Geforce SDR card under win2k. I like mostly everyone else with a similar setup experience frequent lock-ups on the desktop.

 

This is what I am trying now.

 

I used the nv4_mini.sys from 3.66 with the 3.78 Nvidia reference drivers.

 

Its worth a shot. The worst that could happen is that you still end up going back to the 3.66 drivers totally.

 

Go into safe mode and copy the nv4_mini.sys file from the 3.66 driver set into the \%system root%\system32\drivers directory after you have installed the 3.78 drivers.

 

I have not crashed yet on the desktop. Its has been 3 hours and I haven't played any games to delay the crash. So so far so good.

 

Give it a shot. This may be the fix, for now.

 

GPR

[KnYnE 0]

where can i get the 3.66 file...

[Jerry - 0]

zoiah.spedia.net

[Palos 0]

did anybody try this with a TNT2 ?? I get freakin BSODs everytime i try to access DX or OGL mode, with any drivers > 3.66

[Sensei 0]

It worked! YAY! Woohooo! I'm now using the 3.78 drivers with the 3.66 mini file thingy.

 

Pete

[Exorcist 0]

Hmm - I'll try that tomorrow

 

Although to be honest, the random lock-ups are, er, random - I can go days without one single lock-up - and then get 2 or 3 on one day...annoying isn't the word

 

Exorcist

[MoleDK 0]

I just copied the nv4_mini.sys from 3.66 into the unzipped 3.78 driver directory and overwriting the existing file.

 

I let Windows 2K install those and it worked without problems.

 

Much easier than fiddling around afterwards