Wipe drive, re-install OS and applications without Norton (Which is a system-killer, not an anti-virus). Get a real anti-virus program like AVG or Avira.
-Adam On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > So, I have this really high strung Windows box, and every now and again it > does something completely inexplicable. > It's latest is on boot-up, it decides it can't start the video card: > > Code 10, device cannot be started > > And the card runs in VGA mode. > Sometmes rebooting the computer will solve it, more often than not I have to > uninstall the driver and reinstall it. > > Now, the specifics: > It is an ASUS motherboard with an ASUS (Nvidea) graphics card, and the > problem started immediately after installing Norton antivirus (which I have > come to despise). > > What I'm thinking is that Norton created a file with the same name as one of > the Nvidea driver files and so the wrong file is picked up on boot and > causes the card to crash. > > I've done some searching for this, and have been in touch with both Asus and > Symantec (both of whome blame the other company but won't go farther than > that). > > Any ideas on how to solve this? > I can't find any files in the system32 directory that look like they might > be causing the problem. If I can get the machine to boot, it runs just fine. > > Thanks > > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
