you got 4GB ram right?
are they are the exact same?
go head remove 2 GB
and try it!
what does the blue screen view say same error as before?
Windows 7 crashes on startup, "Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed"
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Right, so I'm using an HP laptop, and it seems to be consistently crashing on startup, with a bunch of strange coloured lines and pixels before the login screen appears. I usually dont even get a BSOD, but I did just once, with the error code 0x000000001E and the error message "Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed".
I'd had this problem using Windows Vista as well, and thought an upgrade to 7 might fix it, but apparently not. Listing my computer specs below in case they're of any use.
HP Pavilion dv9830us
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit edition, formerly Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit edition
RAM: 4GB
Processor: Dual Core Intel T5550, its a 64 bit processor, I believe.
Video Card: Nvidia Geforce 8600GS (mobile), 512MB VRAM.
What I've tried so far:
Every edition of Nvidia drivers that I can find for my card, using 3dguru's driver sweeper each time I install a new one. I've used the new 195.39 beta drivers as well, and those did work for a few hours. However, when I shut my pc down it wouldnt start up again, reverting back to the same crashes.
Flashed my BIOS to the latest version as per HP's driver page for my laptop.
Checked that my chipset drivers are up to date.
Disabled all Aero effects (just in case that was the problem)
Basically, if my PC has an Nvidia driver installed on it, it crashes. If I go to safe mode, uninstall the video driver, it boots up fine in normal mode with the regular VGA driver. When I then install an Nvidia driver again, back to the crashes.
Since I do tend to use my PC quite a bit, any assistance is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Anonymous
2009-11-05T16:36:49+00:00 -
Anonymous
2009-11-05T16:39:45+00:00 Yeah the blue screen is exactly the same as before.
And yes, I have 2x 2GB sticks, both are exactly the same. Will remove 2GB and see what happens, and get back to you soon.
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Anonymous
2009-11-05T16:42:12+00:00 go to
download cpuz program! "i will tell you who made your pc ,how much ram, what kind of cpu and so on!"
or
http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpuz/cpuz64\_152.zip
unzip it and run it!
look at mainboard tab
look for chipset
can you tell me what chipset you have?
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Anonymous
2009-11-05T17:16:24+00:00 i was reading your first post
you said
"Right, so I'm using an HP laptop, and it seems to be consistently crashing on startup, with a bunch of strange coloured lines and pixels before the login screen appears. I usually dont even get a BSOD, but I did just once, with the error code 0x000000001E and the error message "Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed".
I'd had this problem using Windows Vista as well, and thought an upgrade to 7 might fix it, but apparently not. Listing my computer specs below in case they're of any use."
it may be ram!!! beasue one ram in a bunch can make this kind of handy work!!! "this happend to me back in 1999. strange lines and black letters and black box squires showed up on my pc!!"
so make sure to run the pc with a single ram. and test it! then remove it and try the other one!
we could find out if this is the cause!!!
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Anonymous
2009-11-05T18:22:47+00:00 Ok, so I've tried running my PC on single sticks of RAM, and tested each stick individually with the Windows Memory Diagnostics, everything seems ok with my RAM but I still get the blue screens.
As for my chipset, I'm using an Intel Core 2 Duo T5550, with 2x 1.83 GHz cores. I'm at a total loss at the moment, because everything seems to be pointing to either a driver error or a hardware problem.