nv4_disp error

I don't know much about my laptop computer but it's a Dell, Latitude D260; Before when I opened it on safe mode it said that it was Windows XP Professional service pack 3, I tried to take it back to the last good state it had but then the screen went completely black and didn't do anything for an hour. I bought it refurbished so I don't know if any of the stickers would be correct for it. This is the second time it's gotten this way. First time all I needed the most was the re-installation cd and playing around with it. I can't get it past one of the two pixel screens or lightened black screen, or past the blue screen that says either one of the two "nv4_disp error" and "IRQL_Not_Less_or_equal." I only had my laptop mouse connected to it in the USB hookup at the time it did this and when I went to remove the battery to make sure it was completely shut off it felt warm. Would I be able to download anything from my desktop to a flash drive that will make it work?

I know this site shows to run something on the computer to find it, but this is the only working computer that I can get on, the laptop I can't.

 

Also, it continues to say that the Drivers are stuck in an infinite loop along with the same information it gives... "STOP: 0x000000EA, 0x8641FD8, 0xF7A55CBC, 0x00000001"

 

Got the laptop to open up in safe mode, shows the bottom halfway on the screen. Tried to restore back to May 1st, system restore point. Says that "F" driver was shut off or removed.

 

Hi my friend , welcome to MG's :major

You could give your service tag

http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/19/KCS/KcsArticles/ArticleView?docid=267748_PT

nv4_disp error is related to nvidia card also the Error STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER is related either to driver corruption or your graphic card is dead , i hope the first to be your problem :wave

 

How would I fix a driver corruption?

 

The service tag is 8VR11D1

 

Using this tool , be careful for this note

Limitations: This program may offer to install third party programs that are not required for the program to run. These may include a toolbar, changing your homepage, default search engine or other third party programs. Please watch the installation carefully to opt out.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/driver_fusion_(driver_sweeper).html

you could remove the leftover of the drivers completely , you can watch this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6hsE4LuYLk

after that you can download this driver

http://www.dell.com/support/drivers...leId=2731120473&languageCode=en&categoryId=VI

following this to instal the driver properly

Hard Drive Installation (via WinZip) with Setup.exe File for NVIDIA_MULTI-DEVICE_A08_R191214.EXE

Download

1.Click Download Now, to download the file.
2.When the File Download window appears, click Save (Windows XP
users will click Save) this program to disk and click OK. The Save In:
window appears.
3.From the Save In: field, click the down arrow then click to
select Desktop and click Save. The file will download to your desktop.
4.If the Download Complete window appears, click Close. The file
icon appears on your desktop.

Install

1.Double-click the new icon on the desktop labeled NVIDIA_MULTI-DEVICE_A08_R191214.EXE.
2.The Self-Extracting window appears and prompts you to extract or
unzip to C:\DELL\DRIVERS\R191214. Write down this path so the executable (I.e.
Setup.exe) file can be found later.
3.The Self-Extractor window appears.
4.Click OK.
5.After completing the file extraction, if the Self-Extractor
window is still open, close it.
6.Click the Start button and then click Run.
7.Type C:\DELL\DRIVERS\R191214 in the Open textbox and then click OK.
8.Follow the on-screen installation instructions :wave

 

Alright, well, how do I get the computer to where I can do something like that? All I get is either pixel screens or black screens..

 

Do you have an external monitor to connect your laptop ? :wave

 

I'm not too sure..

 

What does it mean exactly when you see..?

"Hardware malfunction
NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity error
System Halted.."

 

In many times this error is related to Ram problem or memory controller problem , if you have another computer you can create this useful cd

http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/

burning it with

http://www.majorgeeks.com/ImgBurn_d4870.html

there is memtest86 programme , you can run this for 5 hours at least :wave

 

Is there a way I can do this with a flash drive?

 

Also, it's now back to saying something about the nv4_disp again.

 

I got it to start up like normal, well, slightly normal.
It showed a window saying that "Windows has recovered from an error."
It kept flashing every so often then it just turned to a lightened black screen.
It was also installing a windows update and the antivirus program started running.

 

And now it's showing a blue screen with a black bar vertically when I turn it back on each time and it's blinking.

 

At the start of the laptop you must press F8 , you can choose
Disable Automatic Restart on system failure
when bsod is appeared you will be able to see the error message , even you can look at this

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd-on-usb-disk :wave

 

It's not even showing that on the laptop. Even when I plug in an external monitor..

 

Black screen is existed even in external monitor ? :wave

 

Still a lightened black screen to a darkened screen or, "No signal" when it's connected to the external monitor.

 

Do you press FN - F8 ( notice a blue CRT/LCD marking ) simultaneously connecting with an external monitor ? :wave

 

It's not doing anything still.
There's still a blue screen on the monitor saying "no signal."
And the laptop screen is still black.
I have the internet switch on and all that comes on with the lights are the power indicator and the battery one.
The light that tells whether the wireless internet is on or off doesn't show and I know for sure that it's on. The light that looks like a tube keeps turning on then turns off, and I know that light is usually blinking when it usually works like it's supposed to.

 

I pressed FN - F8 several times and ended up with that screen and chose last configuration option when that screen came up, even though it was all distorted. Then I tried to get it back up and then pressed those again, and it gives me a white screen with black traveling down before going into a screen with gray lines horizontally.