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Msnmsgr will now close -- nvdisp.drv. by The GLoC on 01-30-2004 at 12:38 PM
... Until I've experienced this issue, I've not heard of the file nvdisp.drv. However, When I installed Messenger Plus! 2.54 it worked great. (did this 2 days ago).
When I shut off my computer for the night, and turned it on in the morning, Messenger would crash immediatly upon activation.
The Error Message:
******
*Msnmsgr has caused an error in NVDISP.DRV.
*Msnmsgr will now close.
*
*If you continue to experience problems,
*try restarting your computer.
******
The first time I run Messenger, the error appears, and locks up the computer until I say okay. The 2nd time I run Messenger, the error message does not appear; but the entire system will hang, leaving me with a cold boot as my only option. Restarting the computer after the 1st attempt will not change the order (If I restart after crashing once, the computer will still hang if I run it again).
Doing a bit of research, it seems the file NVDISP.DRV is a Device Driver (obviously), for the Nvidia series of video cards. This isn't my computer, so I didn't select the video card, but knowing the owner of the computer, it (the computer) is, with 95% certainty, using the 2MB on-board video cache.
Anyway, computer specs:
-- Hewlett Packard (augh...) Pavillion Series
-- Windows Millenium OS (gah... with the above, it's the combination from hell, I work for Microsoft so I can say that).
-- AMD Athalon Processor (not bad)
-- 128 MB RAM.
I just did a File Search for it, I have two occurances of the file. One is in the Windows CAB files, the other, the one that crashes Messenger, is in Windows/System... I wonder if the fact that all the letters are capitalized indicates that the file is infected...
Any help on the issue is appreciated.
RE: Msnmsgr will now close -- nvdisp.drv. by Mnjul on 01-30-2004 at 12:44 PM
It isn't likely to have anything to do with Plus!, still I suggest you upgrade the MSN Messenger as well as the nVidia driver to the latest version
RE: Msnmsgr will now close -- nvdisp.drv. by Choli on 01-30-2004 at 12:53 PM
quote:shouldn't it be better to put version 45.23 instead ot the latest?
Originally posted by Mnjul
as well as the nVidia driver to the latest version
RE: Msnmsgr will now close -- nvdisp.drv. by Mnjul on 01-30-2004 at 01:00 PM
quote:Perhaps he's not using TNT series...
Originally posted by Choli
shouldn't it be better to put version 45.23 instead ot the latest?
RE: Msnmsgr will now close -- nvdisp.drv. by Choli on 01-30-2004 at 02:54 PM
quote:I didn't know that
Originally posted by Mnjul
Perhaps he's not using TNT series...
I though the problem was with nVidia cards is general...
RE: Msnmsgr will now close -- nvdisp.drv. by Mnjul on 01-30-2004 at 03:08 PM
quote:(We're getting offtopic
Originally posted by Choli
I didn't know that
)Oh no, that only happens with TNT/TNT2 series cards...generally GeForce series have no such problem
RE: Msnmsgr will now close -- nvdisp.drv. by CookieRevised on 01-30-2004 at 05:39 PM
quote:Geforce4 Ti 4200 here, I did have problems (non-messenger related though, it was a multi-moni related problem) with latest driver and had to roll back also...
Originally posted by Mnjul
(We're getting offtopic
Oh no, that only happens with TNT/TNT2 series cards...generally GeForce series have no such problem
---on topic---
Could it be that NVDISP.DRV has just been corrupted by something? (too much fragmentation, error on disk, ...)
Also in the windows\system folder most filenames are capitalized with me. In windows\system32 there are a lot of nv*.* files, but no nv*.drv files (even not on my entire HDD).
RE: Msnmsgr will now close -- nvdisp.drv. by Choli on 01-30-2004 at 07:53 PM
quote:do you mean they begin with Upper Case Letter? that's not the problem , because the file system (NTFS) is not case sensitive (although it can remember the case in which files were created)
Originally posted by CookieRevised
Also in the windows\system folder most filenames are capitalized with me.
RE: Msnmsgr will now close -- nvdisp.drv. by CookieRevised on 01-30-2004 at 09:23 PM
no I mean they are all capitalized (well most of them)... well I used proberly the wrong word... I mean uppercased. I know it doesn't matter actually, but the thing is viruses or other programs could have overwritten the filename and used uppercase filenames instead of the original filename. That happens with some of them. This is what "The GLoC" meant by "I wonder if the fact that all the letters are capitalized indicates that the file is infected". So my reply was just to say that in windows\system most of the filenames are original uppercased (in my case, using XP).
RE: Msnmsgr will now close -- nvdisp.drv. by Patchou on 01-30-2004 at 10:18 PM
For the record: neither my Geforce 2 and my GeForce4 ever experienced this problem.
RE: Msnmsgr will now close -- nvdisp.drv. by The GLoC on 02-15-2004 at 06:51 AM
Been a while no?
Anyway, it seems the graphics card (I've learned alot about this scrap pile in the last few days, it has a hidden DVD player!) is an Nvidia "Vanta"... Whatever that is.
I've replaced the nvdisp.drv with the one from the cabs, failed to change anything. I'm updating the driver now, but it'll take a while on my 28.8 modem (downloading right now at... 2.25 kilobytes per second). I'll update again when it's done (in an hour).
RE: Msnmsgr will now close -- nvdisp.drv. by The GLoC on 02-26-2004 at 07:16 AM
Maybe it's my fault, I can't remember now.
But the issue was resolved... so far.
I looked through the registry, and found a key called "patchou" it had Plus! Keys. Ripped that out, opened Messenger (which I had already ripped/reinstalled), and issue was resolved.
Now I'll reinstall Plus! with the updated video drivers, and see if anything changes this time (It's good to finally have Messenger back).
[EDIT: I say it may be my fault because I can't remember if I removed Plus! from add/remove programs, though I believe (60%) that I did.]