Bloody Norton. It killed the audio on my old computer. After several months of trying to fix the problem I just formatted & started again.
Cheers, Dave (I have no help to offer) 2009/2/23 William Robb <war...@gmail.com>: > So, I have this really high strung Windows box, and every now and again it > does something completely inexplicable. > It's latest is on boot-up, it decides it can't start the video card: > > Code 10, device cannot be started > > And the card runs in VGA mode. > Sometmes rebooting the computer will solve it, more often than not I have to > uninstall the driver and reinstall it. > > Now, the specifics: > It is an ASUS motherboard with an ASUS (Nvidea) graphics card, and the > problem started immediately after installing Norton antivirus (which I have > come to despise). > > What I'm thinking is that Norton created a file with the same name as one of > the Nvidea driver files and so the wrong file is picked up on boot and > causes the card to crash. > > I've done some searching for this, and have been in touch with both Asus and > Symantec (both of whome blame the other company but won't go farther than > that). > > Any ideas on how to solve this? > I can't find any files in the system32 directory that look like they might > be causing the problem. If I can get the machine to boot, it runs just fine. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
