---- William Robb <war...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Get rid of Norton. It may have cleaned up its act with regard to resource hogging but there are still quite a few posts around with variations on the phrase "this only started after I installed Norton antivirus". A good forum, in parts, : http://www.techsupportforum.com -- 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.
