Device Driver Error

caramelsoul · May 25, 2006

OK, so i posted my problem in another persons thread and was encouraged to start one of my own for my specific problem. My PC has been crashing spuriously for a while now. Just now and then. But it sure as hell is annoying. Especially as i use my PC as my music source ( winamp + FLAC + ASIO).

So i started sending error reports when prompted. It states that its a device error. How do i go about trouble shooting this. Do i disable a driver at a time? The only problem with that is that my PC might go for a few days before it has one of its hissy fits and crashes. Is there a better way to do this.

All help is greatly appreciated.

caramelsoul · May 25, 2006

Update - It seems that the problem is a video card driver. Well i dont have a video card. But it did prompt me to go into the display and take the hardware acceleration down to zero and to uncheck the enable write combining, which i have done. I dont know if this will do it. But ill keep you posted. Just out of interest what is it that i have actually done by following the steps above?

I am guessing it is to do with my monitors drivers. I did acquire that about the same time as i fitted my new RAM and soundcard now that i think about it.

TimW · May 25, 2006

So, you opened device manager and there was an exclamation (or yellow ? ) next to your display adapter or sound/video adapters?
You could also go to control panel/admin.tools/computer management and expand event viewer ....check for errors in both applications and system ....double click on any error and usually when the box comes up, it has a link to microsoft that may explain the problem .....post back

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