[windows2000] RES: Stop Error - Video driver fails to initialize

  • From: "Eduardo Freitas" <eduardofreitas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:57:15 -0300

Change the agp rate to 1X. It worked like a charm for me...

Regards,
 
Eduardo Herrmann de Freitas


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De: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Em nome de Ron Leach
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 26 de setembro de 2003 12:17
Para: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assunto: [windows2000] Stop Error - Video driver fails to initialize

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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