blue screen of death

Ricardo · Post by **Ricardo** » Fri Jan 10, 2003 1:56 am

A couple of times now on closing SFP I have received the 'blue screen of death'saying that SFP was the cause. It doesn't always happen and luckily was only fatal once. (then had to reload XP). Does anyone know how to fix this please?
BTW out of interest when I did reload XP I had a lot of problems with the drivers for Matrox, SFP and USB devs. To solve the problem I had to uninstall my intel application accelorator software. But things are still not as good as they were!! Any thoughts on that out there, as I'm no 'tech head'.

Post by **garyb** » Fri Jan 10, 2003 8:16 pm

i'd sart from scratch again.you need to install things in order,first item should be board drivers,then hardware,then software.beware though,constant bsod after a good install may be a hardware problem...

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Fri Jan 10, 2003 9:35 pm

Before nuking your entire system, have you tried a simple re-install of SFP ?

Post by **garyb** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 1:00 am

he's already nuked his system.

Ricardo · Post by **Ricardo** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 7:20 am

Yep, nuked it is!! I think I was hoping for something a bit less radical but somehow I knew that would be the ultimate thing to do. Thanks for answering.
This all started when I couldn't get Nero to record to CD. Thought I'd try M$ repair tips, ended up reinstalling XP over an original installation and bang, NUKED! No network,no DMA, no graphics, no audio, until I unstalled the intel app accelerator. Got Nero back, got UDMA back and got audio after a couple of SFP reintalls, oh and graphics. I guess I just learnt alot in a small space of time.
Cheers

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GonZoft · Post by **GonZoft** » Mon Jan 13, 2003 4:53 am

I used to have these SFP errors too. In my case, the solution was to disable both nvidia backgroud tasks (don't remember their exact names) that get loaded at startup. Check with msconfig. One is nview which you need only to setup a second monitor and the other, I don't know what it does, but normal graphics performance is not affected if you disable it. It's probably rather for 3D games or so.