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Windows recently sent out an nVidia display driver update for my Nvidia GeForce Go 7600. I have an HP Pavillion dv9000 laptop with a 256 Nvidia video card. My laptop crashed to a bluescreen. I troubleshooted with safemode and windows repair. The problem points to the driver update. I can only boot up normally in safemode. When I uninstall the Nvidia driver I can boot up normally using the Standard VGA graphics adapter. I had to turn off automatic updates and change to the option where it allows me to choose what to install. I went to the Nvidia site and the HP site for direct drivers and they keep crashing my system. I cant restore back before these updates. Is there an earlier driver version that will work for my video card or does this mean my video card is SHOT! I cant run any graphical games or applications. HELP!!!!
i have a dv8000 with about the same problem and even some weird verticle lines in the screen. it crashes out of windows to a blue screen saying nv4.mini.sys.
well did you get it working? i may just scrap this laptop
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Did you ever find out how to fix this? My computer just recently started doing it when I upgraded to the new driver.
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I have the same laptop and mine is doing the exact same thing I nticed on my laptop I have verticle lines running through the screen and !! marks on different boot screens do you have this also ???
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I am a very similar problem. I also have an HP dv9000 laptop, but with a 512mb Nvidia geforce go 7600 graphics card. I actually have not installed or done anything, I used my laptop the night before with no problems whatsoever, but the next day upon boot I had the BSOD referring to nvlddmkm.sys and something about failing to recover from timeout. I get this message each and every time when booting up unless I run in safe mode, or if I disable my graphics card in device manager. I've tried everything I could find through searching this problem, but nothing works (including driver uninstall/install among others). Anyone have any new/better ideas? I'm afraid my graphics card is just done. The laptop is almost 3 years old, so I know things wear out, I'm just hoping it was reasonably fixable. Thanks!
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I had a similar problem. It might be that in your situation you have other out dated drivers. I updated mine using a driver update tool for the Geforce Go 7600 driver. Check the Nvidia driver website if you still have no luck.
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hi everyone!
I have exactly the same problem as keendawg07 and couldn't find any solution to this for days and have still vertical stripes on my screen and no geforce driver installed at all because none of them worked. I hope someone can find a solution!!!
Thanks.
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Heres a summary about those lines. If you see them before windows starts to load, your video card is stuffed, if its after windows loads, your drivers are stuffed.
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That must be my case. My video card is stuffed. I have the vertical lines before windows starts. But what caused my video card to be stuffed? Was it the update? Was it an application or program? or game?
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I also have a HP dv9000 with Nvidia GeForce 7600. I had been running the Win7 RC without a problem since its release up until a couple of weeks ago when a NVIDIA update for the GeForce7600 was released.
Since then, vertical lines before windows starts, restore system failure, BSOD, unable to run any NVIDIA drivers.
I can start in Safe Mode and disable the NVIDIA device and run that way but vertical lines remain.
None of the older NVIDIA drivers will run in Win7 and even a full fresh install of Win7 RC can't fix it.
BEGINNING TO LOSE THE PLOT!!
Will this be resolved at some point or will the graphics card have to be scrapped? Why is it that even though the device worked before the recent update I can't just reinstall an older driver??
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Me too, lines before windows. HP dv8320. Has anyone been succesful in repairing the problem?
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