Hp 8710p XP-pro - Games Crash and weird Desktop!

Hi all,

I have a HP 8710p with XP pro, Quadro NVS 320 grahic card, 4Go RAM, T8300 processor, SP3, all drivers up-to-date....

When I play games, for a certain moment (can vary from 5 to 30 minutes) my game crash "you encountered a problem and son on..." and go back to desktop but... all is in 4 Bits colors and a resolution of 640*480!!

This happenned to all 3D game I played... Assassin creed, Unreal... and many others.

So I have done lot and lot of things :

- re-install of windows
- Update drivers for graphic and others devices (on etime with the CD, one time with the HP website)
- Uninstall firewall and antivirus to see if that can change some things...
- Change again graphic driver (test very drivers...normal, HP, laoptopvideo)

Nothing change.

All my games are very smooth, no problem, full details but... after a moment.. BOOM crash, CTD and 4 bits colors!! Nvidia control panel disappear and freeze of my notebook...need to reboot manually and all its normal again...:-/

Don't know what to do, I have the notebook since... 10 days! :-/

Have you an idea of the problem?

 

sounds like nvidia's drivers are bad.

 

Yes but i have delete all driver with driver cleaner, reinstall them (the HP one, The nvidia one, even the laptopvideo) but nothing change, no matter driver I use...

 

did you try to install the 8700m gt drivers? the quadro nvs 320 is the same card as a 8700m gt. the 8700m gt drivers are better for gaming

 

Yes i have installed them and same results. After a moment (in the game all is good, no lag, hight details ...) all my game crash, back to desktop and ... 4 bits colors (very ugly..).. then freeze and need to rebbot manually :-/
In case of... have you a link for the driver you are using ?

 

im using the latest quadro nvs 320 driver from microsoft update, there fine for me since i dont game, are you completely uninstalling the drivers before you reinstall them?

 

Yes, all was uninstall, first by the control panel of windows, and in safe mode with driver cleaner.

I have tested the driver from MS update but nothing change, always crash after a moment :-/

 

well,

i'm not an expert, but have read about nvidia bad parts, and
nvs 320 is g84m which is affected ..

 

HP will change my Graphic Crad for a new one, i will see if something change

 

I too have the exact same laptop xp aswell - crysis crashes, battle for middle earth crashes, world in conflict crashes, command and conquer, stalker the list goes on - all crash exactly as you explain - goes to 4bit 640x480 res??***
Tried other drivers... same thing!

 

Solved

I have partitioned the harddrive with gparted live.

I then installed windows vista on the partition and after installing all the hp drivers for vista 32 business the games all run 100% now (I also installed any knowledge base windows updates related to vista and nvidia (about 3or4 of them))

At least we know its not hardware but software driver issues of a card designed to be used in vista in my opinion.

And i have the option to dual boot into xp for all my CAD apps