[windows2000] Stop Error - Video driver fails to initialize
- From: "Ron Leach" <rleach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:17:12 -0400
I swapped hard drives out of two computers so I could keep my programs,
settings, environment variables, etc. One of them worked like a dream. It
detected all the hardware and everything and then booted right up. The other
one will not go past the windows splash screen. It does a check disk and then
it gives the stop error
***Stop: 0x000000b4 (0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00050000)
"The video driver failed to initialize"
Then it performs a physical memory dump.
It won't boot into safe mode, vga mode, last known good configuration,
anything. It gives the same error. The only way I can get it to a command
prompt was to put a disk in to the CD drive and reboot.
I tried switching video cards, an I/O fix on microsoft's website, everything I
can think of.
It is Windows 2000 professional with an NVIDIA Geforce 2 MX video card.
TIA
Ron
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