Try starting xp up in 'vga mode' he says belat-ed-ly to prove its a video driver issue first .. ( at myself for not saying straight off ! - this is a special mode in windows that uses a default video driver with limited features - you get to it by pressing 'f8' repeatedly & fast just after post {when it goes beep} & you'll get a screen a bit like so


While we are in vgamode we also want to look in device manager for any duplicate entries for video controllers just in case, as there seems confusion about uninstalling ..

Quote Originally Posted by lindaroth1
... I have no idea what any of that means.
It means either this "Stop 0x000000EA" Error Message When You Run Video-Intensive Programs or this Error message: STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER apparently & they both come down to 'bad driver' .. but there's a couple of bios settings maybe affecting things too, now I know what this means ..

I'd open bios & look & see if you have any any 'fast write' or 'fast read' values lurking as on & turn them off (to open bios its probably one of del/esc/f1, press 'muchly' as you turn on) .. looking for a screen like this probably ..


This 'fast write/read' stuff is a way of accelerating video card performance but it won't work with lots of stuff despite their being bios options for it, for how much performance it may add (say 5%) I'd leave it off ..