NVIDIA BUG --- nv4_disp.dll infinite loop error / BIG PROBLEMS.

robitussin

This seems more complex than it really is. But here goes.

This is blowing my mind. I was playing WOW last night and in the middle of a group my computer just freaked out. The screen turned a whole barrage of colors .. mostly purple, green, and gray. The sound kept going, but the video froze. Then the sound started looping and I bluescreened.

I got the nv4_disp.dll bluescreen saying something about it getting caught in an infinite loop.

I haven't had a bluescreen in almost a year. This really took me by surprise. I have installed anything or even downloaded anything in almost a week.

It's even started being extremely distorted on the boot up ASUS screen and windows loading bar screen. Also every time I try to get into WOW, I get this weird display, followed by a blue screen or just a black screen. I booted into Enemy Territory, Quake 3, and Warcraft III Frozen Throne and everything is working fine.

However, about an hour ago, I was talking on AIM, and I saw a streak rip across my screen, kind've liked pixelated and purple/green/gray. I was confused as shit. So I smacked my desk and it got worse. I did it until my screen bluescreened. I think my computer is posessed. I also clicked on the corner to resize a window and it blew up into a mess of pixels and bluescreened too. I am so confused. I cannot express it in words. Along with frustrated.

Here's a screenshot of what it looks when I boot into safe mode. I uninstalled my nVidia drivers and redownloaded them, only to still have this problem.

System Specs:

ASUS P4P800 MOBO
GeForce 6700 GS 512mb AGP
3.2gHz Pentium 4
1gig PC3200 RAM
Seagate 160gig HD.

I'm not as computer savvy as a lot of you are, but yeah .. this problem is elusive. Here's a screenshot of safe mode when I boot into it.

http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c293/wowscreenz/?action=view&current=weird2.jpg

If anyone has ANY suggestions or comments seriously, I'll love you forever. Thanks a bunch.


EDIT: Also, apparently what it's doing right before it BSOD's/Blackscreens .. is "artifacting." Never heard this until today, but yeah ... big ugly mess on the screen.

zilo

Reinstall your video card drivers. If that doesn't work your video card may have gone bad. It's rare, but it happens.

edit: wait, you already did. Reinstall Windows? Longshot, but file corruption does weird things.

Grundlestiltskin

I think WoW is just really poorly coded and rapes systems. Every other game I played recently (Doom 3, Civ 4, F.E.A.R) runs fine on my computer, but WoW gives it fits.

robitussin

Shit, posted a bad link for the screenshot. Here's the real link.

http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c293/wowscreenz/?action=view&current=weird2.jpg

Reinstalling Windows would be a last resort just before buying a new PC.

Pheezer

Grundlestiltskin wrote: »

I think WoW is just really poorly coded and rapes systems. Every other game I played recently (Doom 3, Civ 4, F.E.A.R) runs fine on my computer, but WoW gives it fits.

WoW is heavily dependent upon your Internet connection and the server and blah blah everything else, too.

It might be poorly coded in terms of not running as well on high end machines as you'd expect or want, but the fact that it runs on my 12" iBook where there's really not much likelihood that Doom 3 would agree to install in the first place leads me to believe that they have different priorities in terms of how they coded their game.

Still though, the point that it's hardly the best metric to gauge a system by is fair.

robitussin

DrDizaster wrote: »

Grundlestiltskin wrote: »

I think WoW is just really poorly coded and rapes systems. Every other game I played recently (Doom 3, Civ 4, F.E.A.R) runs fine on my computer, but WoW gives it fits.

WoW is heavily dependent upon your Internet connection and the server and blah blah everything else, too.

It might be poorly coded in terms of not running as well on high end machines as you'd expect or want, but the fact that it runs on my 12" iBook where there's really not much likelihood that Doom 3 would agree to install in the first place leads me to believe that they have different priorities in terms of how they coded their game.

Still though, the point that it's hardly the best metric to gauge a system by is fair.

I can agree to that. Blizzard is really good about getting all of their games out there to people with all sorts of systems. From low-mid to high. That's why they're such a popular company now. All of their stuff has always been pretty friendly to those that don't have such high-end systems.

But I do get more problems with WOW than any other game out there, unfortunately.

stigweard

If you are getting distortion at the system start (from a cold boot), your card is probably screwed. You can reseat it and if that doesn't work, try underclocking it until the artifacts go away. If you are still getting artifacts at boot, before windows loads, test the card in another machine and if it is still messed, rma or trash it if the warranty is gone.

Pheezer

Remove and re-insert the card. Do it a few times juuuust to be sure. I've had that be the root cause more than once, and I've never gotten to the stage of desperation required to try that without at least a few wasted hours first.

robitussin

Thanks for all the help.

If it's the graphics card then I'm not too worried. I'm worried about something more severe like my MOBO. The card is only about 7-8 months old, which is why I'm shocked that it'd already be going. My old nVidia lasted well over 2 1/2 years of long long gaming.

Maybe I should run down to Best Buy, buy a card, try it out, see if that's the problem, keep it if it works, return it if it doesn't. Though I'm not sure they refund money on open graphics cards, just replace it. Now that would suck.