GeForce crash help

[brj8826]

I'm trying to fix a friend of mine's PC and have isolated the problem to his video card, a GeForce 7800 GT PCI-E. He has an ECS Nforce4-a393 mobo with 2GB of Kingston RAM. Windows XP service pack 2 installed.

The system will boot fine as long as I don't plug in the power to the video card. As soon as I plug in the power I get the blue screen with the n4_disp.dll message after it tries to enter windows.

I've searched around and can't find any discussion of someone who's had the same plug-in/blue screen issue.

All of the topics around n4_disp.dll blue screen end up with an installation of the latest drivers as a fix. I've done this with no help.

Any suggestions? Could it be a power supply issue?

 

[shadowduck]

I'm trying to fix a friend of mine's PC and have isolated the problem to his video card, a GeForce 7800 GT PCI-E. He has an ECS Nforce4-a393 mobo with 2GB of Kingston RAM. Windows XP service pack 2 installed.

The system will boot fine as long as I don't plug in the power to the video card. As soon as I plug in the power I get the blue screen with the n4_disp.dll message after it tries to enter windows.

I've searched around and can't find any discussion of someone who's had the same plug-in/blue screen issue.

All of the topics around n4_disp.dll blue screen end up with an installation of the latest drivers as a fix. I've done this with no help.

Any suggestions? Could it be a power supply issue?

I would if you can try a different power supply. That could be the problem. I would not rule out the motherboard either.

 

[4Aces]

I'd guess it's the motherboard, ECS has been traditionally sorry to say CRAP, there is nothing lower unless it's PC Chips which was bought by ECS or vice versa.
Asus, MSI, EVGA and Foxconn all make boards with better QC. I wouldn't even RMA it, get a priest and exercise it from the case