I was just playing l4d2, when all of a sudden it started to lag, then crashed and I had a 16 color bit 800x640 desktop resolution with a message that nv4_disp.dll had stopped working properly. I rebooted and Windows appeared very fragmented, with little yellow dots all over the loading screen with the flag, and it appeared to be graphics corruption of some type.
I uninstalled my old drivers and installed a new set for my card, and while safe mode worked fine this entire time, normal mode still does the same thing with a new set of drivers. Might it be possible that the Windows installation itself became corrupted in such a way? Or is it a greater chance that a video card/motherboard/ram or some piece of hardware fried?
[QUOTE=xGoodApollox;19925711]I was just playing l4d2, when all of a sudden it started to lag, then crashed and I had a 16 color bit 800x640 desktop resolution with a message that nv4_disp.dll had stopped working properly. I rebooted and Windows appeared very fragmented, with little yellow dots all over the loading screen with the flag, and it appeared to be graphics corruption of some type.
I uninstalled my old drivers and installed a new set for my card, and while safe mode worked fine this entire time, normal mode still does the same thing with a new set of drivers. Might it be possible that the Windows installation itself became corrupted in such a way? Or is it a greater chance that a video card/motherboard/ram or some piece of hardware fried?[/QUOTE]
I think your card might have died on you/became terminally ill. If you havn't been overclocking, spontaneos crashing, that can't be fixed by driver reinstall/update usually points to the card having become damaged.
Your PSU may be failing, as it may have been what fried the card, so I would just to be safe by a new PSU along with a new video card, because if the PSU is failing, it may take the rest of your computer with it when it dies.
It's a laptop so it won't be as simple as popping a new psu in, I'm probably just going to send it in for repairs as it is still under warranty. Yeah it appears the card died I just was really hoping it hadn't.
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