First thing to do is get rid of Norton, it's shit. I had a similar problem with my sound card. I went through all sorts of grief trying to figure out what was going wrong. Eventually I just took to starting it myself if it didn't start at boot time, and I put it down to a flaky wire or something. When I reinstalled the OS for other reasons the soundcard came back again and it's worked every time since. I suspect that some software - possibly Norton, which I had previously had on my machine, interferes at boot time with other software in a fairly haphazard way that Windows really ought to prevent.
Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of William Robb > Sent: 23 February 2009 13:22 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Another stupid computer question > > 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.
