I have winxp running on its own 20gb hdd which is the primary hdd and the 120gb is the secondary. Thermaltake xaser III atx case with 420w power supply. Samsung 52x24x52 cd re-writer, 8mb buffer Leadtek WinFast Geforce 4 ti4200 8xagp 128MB DDR with vivo Seagate barracuda V 120GB,8M buffer, 7200rpm My computer can't be overheating, it's a thermaltake case with 7 fans plus the fan on the cpu and one on the graphics card, and i have an adequate power supply.Ībit NF7-s, nforce 2, ddr400, fsb 333mhz, serial ata, agp 8x,lan,firewire I have been trying to fix my computer issues for about a week and a half now, browsing through forum after forum to see if anyone else has had the same problem and have tried many things. The graphics drivers can't be causing this as they do not load until windows is booted up so i suspect it could be a faulty graphics card? Then i started getting random freezes where the cpu usuage was 100% in the task manager and the screen would go black and then normal quickly, i could then move the mouse for about 5 seconds, then freeze - > screen black, then normal etc.Īnother unusual thing i am getting is when i reboot my machine i am getting blocks of colour all over the screen, this happens everytime i reboot, regardless of having graphics drivers installed or not. I have tried going back to old WHQL certified drivers (40.72) and this seemed to fix the problem for a day. However, any video drivers that i install seem to cause problems. No more freezes and crashes and i don't have to reboot every 2minutes. It happened once while watching a movie also.Īnyway, so i uninstalled the nvidia drivers and all my problems go away. I run windows xp with dual monitors and it would crash shortly after logging on to windows xp, usually when msn popped up, it would crash on the pop up add, or dragging a window between the two monitors. This all happened after i installed the latest nvidia drivers (45.23). I have re-installed windows numerous times but still the same problems. Hi, i recently bought a new computer a few months ago.Įverything used to work fine and then i suddenly started gettingrandom lockups and freezes.

Nvidia graphics driver install freezes