big directx problems

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ziddey

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Recently, I thought my 7900gs took a dump and needed rma. But today I decided to pull it out to do some further testing. It runs in 2d mode fine. However, once 3d rendering kicked in, it'd immediately bsod on me. But then I figured I'd try opengl mode and what do you know! It worked just fine. But the thing of it all is that in the past few days, I've been running my directx games with the onboard 945g video controller, which although terrible, works in directx mode.

So now I'm experimenting with directx again. I know the simple solution would be to format, but I figure it's not really worth it since I'll be getting a new motherboard tomorrow anyway. So what I'd like to do is figure it out this time around. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling forcewares. I've tried to reinstall dx9 but it doesn't do a full install it seems. Anyone have any suggestions for where to start looking further? OS in question is w2k3r2 sp1 32bit. I've tried sliding hardware acceleration off and then back on to see if it triggers anything as well.

I've tried doing the registry rollback trick but the install still didn't help
 
Does it die off in any DX game or games in particular? Or every DX game you've tried?
 
Yeah it's pretty bad. I've driver cleaned a bunch but it's showing nv4mini as the culprit when it bsod's. Fraps won't even work in my ogl games. But I've been cranking at ogl for over an hour now and no problems. But yeah any directx. Even if I run the test in dxdiag or use atitool
 
Oh well guess I gave up this time. Figured I'd have to backup anyway since I'm formatting tomorrow so I just went ahead and installed windows again, since it's getting real fast with today's technology. Working fine again now. Going to see if 3dmark runs overnight to decide if the card should be rma'ed or not (it wouldn't before, even with a working dx)
 
Wow this is ridiculous!! I got my new motherboard in today so I did a reinstall of windows. And it's exhibiting the same nv4_mini problems with directx as before again. Absolutely ridiculous!!! Maybe it's something to do with windows2003 directx 9.0c and forceware. I wonder what the hell it is. Looks like I might have to format again?!
 
FOUND OUT WHY
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=15510
Good fucking grief nvidia. It makes total sense, since I didn't start deploying terminal services until later into the install the first time around. Then last night, I never bothered getting anything set up since it was only a temporary install. Then today with the new motherboard, I got to configuring the server right away. AGH!
 
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