Why am I getting a bluescreen of death on my PC with the message NV$_disp.dll?

Question

Ok so here is my problem.
I assembled my own AMD Athlon 2000+ PC a couple of years ago and added a Philips Ultimate Edge 5.1 Soundcard and eventually an NVIDIA Geforce Graphics card. After a few years of use the Computer would shut off power whenever asked to do hard work so I assumed the PSU needed replacing. So I replaced it and it didn't work. AFter all that I had my Packard Bell PC unused, so I opened it up and replaced the Video Card with my NVIDIA and added my Philips Ultimate Edge and some extra RAM from my oal AMD as well as swapping the Hard Drive for my AMD one as all my data was on that, so ultimately the only remaining thisg from the Packard Bell is the Motherboard and 1 of the 512MB RAM cards.

SO I was working away on the PC for a couple of days when It shut off and gave me a blue screen suggesting a driver problem or hardware problem. It normally powers on again after 2 or 3 attempts and after a day or so it happens again. Below I have added the error signature, the technical info, the error report, the problem report summary from microsoft and also a reference from the blue screen message.



Error Signature

BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : BF319171 BCP3 : F7110500
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1


Technical Info

C:\DOCUME~1\Gav\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER6096.dir00\Mini071008-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Gav\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER6096.dir00\sysdata.xml



Error Report

Problem caused by Device Driver
You received this message because a device driver installed on your computer caused Windows to stop unexpectedly. This type of error is referred to as a "stop error." A stop error requires you to restart your computer.
More information

Problem report summary

Problem type Windows stop error (a message appears on a blue screen with error code information)
Solution available? No
What does this problem mean? Windows has encountered a problem it cannot recover from and it needs to be restarted
Cause Unknown
Computer symptoms A message appears on a blue screen with error code information (for example: 0x0000001E, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED)
Additional steps for you to take Please continue to send problem reports so analysts at Microsoft can study and try to correct the problem as quickly as possible



My own suspicion is my NVIDIA graphics card as I was also shown a blue screen which included this message

***NV4_disp.dll-address BF319171 base at BF012000, datestamp 453bdc7a


Can anyone make a suggestion to me that will work. It's quite frustrating. The Old soundcard on the Packard Bell motherboard also has a code 10 conflict error, but I have just disabled it to allow the Philips card to take over the sound, so I doubt the problem is related to that?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Answer 1

Could be a problem with device drivers, hardware or software. This problem can be solved by uninstalling new softwares, updating device drivers and making minor configuration changes . From http://fixit.in/bluescreenofdeath.html . You can also run a free registry scan using utilities from http://re7.info

Answer 2

Sounds like your Power Supply or Graphics Card. Try switching your graphics back to integrated for awhile and see if it works, if it does go out and buy a new graphics card (I'd recommend ATI since your having problems with nVidia GPU...because its also possible its conflicting with another piece of hardware). If it doesn't upgrade your Power Supply.



If your running Vista by the way, I'd recommend throwing out nVidia as an option period, nVidia drivers for Vista are buggy, even after a year plus.

Answer 3

Initially I would download the latest Nvidia drivers and see if that cures it. If not follow the next steps

I would initially go into control panel, device manager and uninstall the hardware, go to add remove programs and remove any nvidia drivers you have

I would go into safe mode do a search on NV4_disp.dll and remove, then do a virus scan. reboot Download the the latest nvidia drivers and install that should cure the problem.



if you do a Yahoo search on "NV4_disp.dll stop error " there is plenty of help

Answer 4

if possible you might want to try and run the computer with a different video card just to check. that could tell you if it was your nvidia or not. the nvidia could be bad. but you mention it does it when you make it do harder work so maybe the power supply is too weak for your hardware and when it goes into harder work the power supply can't give it the power it needs.

Answer 5

Yeah i would agree with you about the graphics card, i had the same thing until my pc stopped working all together. I think you may need to replace the graphics card, after i replaced mine i've had not one blue screen or unexpected shut down!

Answer 6

u could stay calm to start with, it does sound kinda a techniques fetched, yet i'm not announcing that is impossible. Pray approximately it together with her, and consistent with danger ur preacher. God has a plan for each man or woman, basically have confidence in him. R u specific that is basically not from somebody enjoying a humorous tale? whether that doesn't be a humorous humorous tale.

Answer 7

Blue screens (bsod) are signs of a memory error(s), go into your Bios enable your onboard video, remove your video card and boot to "safe mode" If you still have bsod's in safe mode replace your memory modules.

Answer 8

A windows blue-screen came up on my computer, it was to do with the hard-drive, i had to buy a new one :s