catasrophic failiure

Marche · May 1, 2004

Hi
If i right click on the desktop then click on my card name tab, i get an error window saying catstrophic failiure and the window in blank.
Any ideas why? Im running a PNY Ti4200 64mb
thanks

stratcatprowlin · May 1, 2004

Never heard that before but removing and reinstalling the video card drivers cant hurt.

I.M.O.G. · May 1, 2004

what tab are you referring to and where are you at within windows when this happens? Is the name of your card listed in the context menu that pops up when you right click on the desktop?

Albuquerque · May 2, 2004

Yeah, I'm not familiar with the word "catastrophic" in any of the standard Windows error messages. What version of windows is this?

rewind_rob · May 2, 2004

i've had one of these.. it was had to do with my card. i have a ati 9700 pro.. sorry i know this really dont help you much but i wanted to tell you that ive had one of these as well

Marche · May 3, 2004

well i right click on the desktop then click properties, to bring up display properties. then i click on the setting tabs, then the advanced button.
thern it brings up the window which says plug and play monitor on ti4200 at the top. then when i click on the tab saying ti4200 it brings up the error message. its a box with a red cross and at the top ion the blue it it says nvcpl. and in the actually box it says catastrophic failiure.
this is all in windows xp pro

Albuquerque · May 3, 2004

Sounds like driver install went south, or at least the control panel part of it. Try completely removing the drivers (NV driver clean or whatever it's called) and then installing again from scratch. Sounds like the nvcpl.dll file is corrupt, missing, a wrong version or just not registered properly.

ket · May 5, 2004

yeah the CP is borked just uninstall the driver, run something like drivercleaner followed with a registry sweep to delete all of thoughs invalid entries then restart, reinstall drivers, problem go away

Quattro · May 10, 2004

My 4400Ti also did this before it died.. So I never found out how to cure it.

I.M.O.G. · May 10, 2004

This is only a software problem... Not hardware related in any way AFAIK.

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