More tech support needed- page faults

Factual Questions
1

Okay, well, my computer has stopped freezing up. That’s a good thing.

The bad thing is, everything’s now crashing at about 10 minute intervals.

Okay, I’m exagerating. But it seems like 10 minutes doesn’t go by that I don’t get a ‘x program has performed an illegal operation’ fault, forcing me to shut down said program. I’ve copied some of the error messages, and here’s what I’ve got.

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module NVIEW.DLL at 017f:100089b0.
Registers:
EAX=0000777f CS=017f EIP=100089b0 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=01c8fa2a SS=0187 ESP=01c8f9d8 EBP=01c8fa10
ECX=e51aa590 DS=0187 ESI=01c8fa6a FS=67cf
EDX=00017ce4 ES=2317 EDI=01c80000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
10 a1 64 d3 06 10 85 c0 0f 84 97 fa ff ff 8b 0c
Stack dump:
00000000 00000001 01c8fa32 8a2e6817 3ff76817 055c168f 02020000 00000000 004c0000 bbc9003c 01c8fb70 bff7186d 0000777f 01c80000 01c8fa70 100089af
AIM caused an invalid page fault in
module NVIEW.DLL at 017f:100089b0.
Registers:
EAX=00004da7 CS=017f EIP=100089b0 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=0063f65e SS=0187 ESP=0063f60c EBP=0063f644
ECX=e5134610 DS=0187 ESI=0063f69e FS=510f
EDX=00017ce4 ES=2317 EDI=00630000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
10 a1 64 d3 06 10 85 c0 0f 84 97 fa ff ff 8b 0c
Stack dump:
00000000 00000001 0063f666 86625b3f 3ff75b3f 0000168f dd5f0000 00000000 00000000 2eb50000 0063f7a4 bff7186d 00004da7 00630000 0063f6a4 100089af

Can anyone translate these into what-the-heck-am-I-supposed-to-do-now-speak? Someone told me to re-install windows. Is this my only option? This is happening with -alarming- frequency. HEEEEEEELP!

2

It could be bad memory chips.

3

You can check your RAM chips with the free diagnostic software here.

4

How about trying to delete the registry key as described here?

Disclaimer: mucking with the registry can hose your system. at the very least, save the original setting. Make backups. Call your mother.

-AmbushBug

5

Another suggestion:

Rename NVIEW.DLL to NVIEW.DLLSAVE and see if that makes a difference. If you have another copy of NVIEW.DLL you could use that, it could be possible that your version is corrupt.

6

Okay, I ran a search and found I had more than one copy of nview.dll on my HD. I changed the name of one of the most recent ones (there were two that were identical time / date stamp, and I could apparently only rename one of them). Lord help me. I’m really getting sick of these errors.

7

ArrrMatey, NVIEW.DLL appears to be a video driver for NVidia cards. You might consider downloading the latest driver appropriate for your video card.

Hope this helps,
Max.

8

I would definitely say it’s a problem with your graphics drivers, and second what Maxxxie said. You should download new ones. Assuming you have a recent video card, pick Graphics Driver, then Geforce and TNT, then finally your operating system.

9

It’s an interresting thought, -but-, I wasn’t getting these problems before I -did- download the newest drivers day before yesterday. :< I may just be screwed, but I’d love to find -some- way to get this stuff to work.

10

You can try:
http://www.google.com/

Input the program message in the box there, in this case,

“module NVIEW.DLL”

Should do. What operating system? anyway, read the web sites that show up for ideas.

11

Uninstall your video card drivers. Let Windows load the default drivers for your video system.
Then, if that worked, go ahead and load the OLD drivers for your video system.

12

According to the link I posted, NVIEW.DLL isn’t your video drivers. It’s part of an accessory program that comes with the video drivers, which is what you should disable to stop the crashing.

-AmbushBug