From: Adam Maas
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 see this all the time, and I don't understand it. I believe people
when they say Norton messed up this and that on their system, but I used
Norton for years and years and never had any problems from it.
The only reason I switched to AVG is I could no longer get Norton for
free after I retired from the military.
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