Posted on 10th January 20072 Responses
Blue Screen of Death nv4.disp Infinite Loop Bug

This transpired over a few weeks. Yes. I got lazy to find a fix. Here’s the sequence of events as they unfolded.

First, the computer (running on XP) hung, probably got kicked accidentally too often due to inopportune placement next to my feet. Mouse pointer frozen. I hesitated to restart but I did.

Then the screen went blank. I was highly disturbed.

When the blue screen of death (BSOD) flashed, I panicked. Some garbled message about infinite loop appeared and physical dumping began. I quickly scribbled down the culprit, nv4.disp, and restarted again.

Now the screen remained blank. Panic ensued. I searched Google on my trusty phone for an answer.

Search: blue+screen+of+death+nv4.disp+loop

Results: Christopher Jason’s brilliant fix

Solution: Basically I needed to download the latest Nvidia driver, uninstall the existing Nvidia driver, install the new one, reboot, and it worked again. Chris Jason rocks!

Now I can sleep.

Comments
comment by lichking
Posted on December 8, 2008 at 7:32 am

i already did almost all the fixes i stumbled upon but with no avail..

they will work for a day or two but will eventually crash…

comment by Christina
Posted on December 31, 2008 at 1:35 am

I’m sorry to hear that. :(

Did you manage to find a solution?

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