I Don't F***ing Believe This

[rdouglass]

I know it's after-the-fact but IMO Norton hasn't been a good product since Symantec bought it out and tried to port it to the Mac in the late '80's. From then on nothing quality has come out of the Norton brand product line.

Symantec has never produced a good product on it's own (IMO anyways) and has always acquired marketshare by buying up other companies and products to add to their line. IMO their (Symantec's) primary mission is in mergers and acquisitions and not in developing quality software.

[Atrocities]

Thanks for the feed back. Fyron am a bit gun shy of AVG after what has happened. I don't want to go through that again. Perhaps it was just a unique conflict or something related to a greater problem. I don't know. I am willing to try them again, but if my system crashes again...... I will not be happy and will most likely have to fly down to AVG HQ and severely punish all that I come into contact with. My phased poloron guns are quite powerful and they skip shields too.

[Atrocities]

Well I think I know what the problem is. There is a direct conflict between the latest Nvidia drivers and the latest XP security update. Between my last post and this one, XP updated and then restarted. When the computer rebooted the screen went wild with bizzar colors and the PC crashed. I tried to restart in safemod and that too crashed. One final restart set the computer to restore to last known good configuration and she started. I will bet money that once I reboot again, she will crash and I will have to do a complete system recovery again.

Leave it to Microsoft to screw everything up.

[Captain Kwok]

Why is it MS's fault if Nvidia's drivers are bad?

Also, why not just rollback your Nvidia driver and wait for a more stable release?

[Atrocities]

The drivers were stable for a day then XP updated and thus the conflict occured. Honestly I think its just that for some reason HP designed comps don't like addon video cards. I disabled my on board video card years ago when I installed my GeForce card. Occationally the computer would crash after waking up from hybernation... the screen would get all funky looking. However the PC never had a failure to boot until two days ago when all sorts of hell broke loose. Honestly I don't really know the specific cause. I can only report what I have seen and speculate as to causes.

However if the problem does occur again, I will most assuredly go back to the old 8X.XX driver.

Thanks for all the insight and help guys. You people make being a member on this site a very valuable thing.

[ToddT]

Hmm AT may not be completelty jumping gun on MS update creating problom with Vidoe drvs. for my lapt thees easliy a a half dozen patches issued by the manufacture to address issues caused by various MS updates, one of which would cause the system to freeze up.

For Example Anyone familiar with the Battery drain bug? It was the direct result of fix by MS and after about 6 to 9 monthes they finally fixed it.
The one thing the Comes to mind was the newer Nvidia drv using some undocumanted WXP feature that MS fixed. That is a problem that has cropped up in the past.