XP auto restart & gpu display crash problems
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:56 pm
I had a bad morning.
Last night at 3:30 AM XP decided to automatically reboot after auto-installing updates. I lost the smp after it was at about 62%. Don't let this happen to you:
http://www.coderetard.com/2008/12/10/ho ... ws-update/
After logging into the computer again (and discovering the lost smp) I restarted the gpu. It was happy. Then for reasons I may never know I decided to click the "display" option on the gpu tray icon. After a 30 second or so screen freeze the computer blue-screened.
After rebooting again the gpu client would not start again. I got the following error:
The application has failed to start because cudart.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
I searched the C: drive for cudart.dll and it did not turn up anywhere.
Not thinking clearly (did not have my coffee yet, it was 6:00 AM) I thought this was a F@H dll. I uninstalled/reinstalled the gpu s/w and it still (obviously) did not work.
I assume now that I have to reinstall the Nvidia drivers when I get home later. I will never run that "display" option again.
My h/w configuration is here (last post):
viewtopic.php?f=46&t=10215
The computer has XP home edition SP3 installed.
Last night at 3:30 AM XP decided to automatically reboot after auto-installing updates. I lost the smp after it was at about 62%. Don't let this happen to you:
http://www.coderetard.com/2008/12/10/ho ... ws-update/
After logging into the computer again (and discovering the lost smp) I restarted the gpu. It was happy. Then for reasons I may never know I decided to click the "display" option on the gpu tray icon. After a 30 second or so screen freeze the computer blue-screened.
After rebooting again the gpu client would not start again. I got the following error:
The application has failed to start because cudart.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
I searched the C: drive for cudart.dll and it did not turn up anywhere.
Not thinking clearly (did not have my coffee yet, it was 6:00 AM) I thought this was a F@H dll. I uninstalled/reinstalled the gpu s/w and it still (obviously) did not work.
I assume now that I have to reinstall the Nvidia drivers when I get home later. I will never run that "display" option again.
My h/w configuration is here (last post):
viewtopic.php?f=46&t=10215
The computer has XP home edition SP3 installed.