Comp froze

-K- · 4 Dec 2007 at 21:04

My pc just froze and it has been happening randomly. I looked at the event logs and this is what it says.

The NVR0FLASHDev service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.

Any idea?

fobose · 4 Dec 2007 at 21:06

Looks like nvidia driver related. Try uninstalling it and downloaded the latest driver?

-K- · 4 Dec 2007 at 21:09

fobose said:
Looks like nvidia driver related. Try uninstalling it and downloaded the latest driver?

The weird thing is it happened on 2 different driver version.

And it always happens when I am watching a video and doing other tasks.

Omg, I went to the Nvidia driver folders and I see this.

Is it normal to have 4 different versions in it? I uninstalled and used driver cleaner.

fobose · 4 Dec 2007 at 21:13

Maybe your graphics card is at fault, what card do you have and how old?

-K- · 4 Dec 2007 at 21:20

It can't be the GPU, I can play game for 10 hours ++ straight fine. And the temps on the GPU is fine.

It only happens when watching a video.

8800GTX SLi

fobose · 4 Dec 2007 at 22:32

The driver "folders" are fine, thats where the installer extracts them to, then uses a file within the folder to install the driver. You can actually delete the NVIDIA folder from there as the files are no longer required once installed. I dont know what else could be the problem. Does the problem occur when your not using SLi?

-K- · 4 Dec 2007 at 23:34

fobose said:
The driver "folders" are fine, thats where the installer extracts them to, then uses a file within the folder to install the driver. You can actually delete the NVIDIA folder from there as the files are no longer required once installed. I dont know what else could be the problem. Does the problem occur when your not using SLi?

Haven't tried that yet. The problem is very random, I can watch video fine for 10 hours ++ and the next day 4 hrs ++ = lock up.

I don't have this problem if I am not watching a video. Gaming = no problem, general web browsing = no problem. Its only when video watching + multi tasking = might or might not crash which is annoying.

I'm thinking if it might be other components that is causing it? Such as RAM?

fobose · 5 Dec 2007 at 06:57

Good point, give memtest a go and see if it finds any errors!