Windows Video Reboot Loop

[tablesalt]

Several of my friends along with myself have run into an issue, mainly with nVidia cards that Windows will get into a loop and continuosly reboot. Microsoft has stated that this is a known problem with all cards but it primarily seems to affect nVidia cards. Does anyone know if this is true, and if so is there a "fix"? Thanks for the help.

[Darren Wilson]

First thing I would try is to disable AGP4X in Bios. Then change the AGP Driving value to EA. Disable all memory shadowing. Go into Safe Mode & change the drivers abck to the last good set that you used. Also remove MS Backup if installed as well.

9/10 times a change in drivers will sort the problem out.

[Silverman]

VIA chipset motherboard? As Darren suggested set AGP Driving value from auto to EA or CC as recommended by Tyan. DA also works.

[tablesalt]

Thanks for the suggestions, unfortunately most have been tried, the last thing I have left to do is to try changing the AGP driving control in the BIOS to see if that makes a difference. Otherwise I think I'm putting in a different video card, it seems to be OK with ATI's as of now so I'll swap the GeForce4 for the Radeon 8500 I have in another machine.

I like your signature at the end of your post by the way Darren.

[RD RD]

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