What is going on!?

[halfawake454]

So i'm having a problem with my video card at the moment. It's a really long story and i don't want to repost everything, but i have the whole story out at this link.

http://forums.gamernode.com/showthread.php?t=23356

The problem i'm having is not the freezing anymore. Please read everything. Right now my video card is getting this error message in the device manager and I don't know what to do.

Device Status:
Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged (Code 19).

Please help!

 

[lgestle]

If your to lazy to copy/paste and condense your issue, I'm not to sure if I want to waste my time visiting other forums to help you out

 

[halfawake454]

The same could be said to you for being to lazy to go to the link.
Let's cry about it:


Post 1:
This is just a copy and paste from a far cry 2 forum, but I could use all the help right now. Really frustrating, these are the reasons i hate pc gaming, anyway:

Okay, so I've been playing the game all day today without a hitch and after taking a number of hours for a break I come back and the game is freezing on me after playing a few minutes of playing. Not only does it freeze, but i have to restart my computer. I checked my cpu temps and they were in the 40's when idle. Not sure how i could check when playing. My video card and everything else are fine, no heat problems and i updated the drivers today. I tried loading the one save a number of times and it kept freezing, so I thought maybe the save got corrupted. I tried loading another save and this one lasted a bit longer (about 10 minutes as opposed to the 2-5 usually). Still it did the same thing though. Please help!

Specs:

Q6600 @ 2.4ghz

8800GT 512mb

2GB RAM

I don't understand why I could run it literally just about all day without a hitch and then they game decides to start freezing on me. Ficitional $100 bill for whoever helps me.

Post 2:
it froze again, but was on in for like 5 seconds before it froze. When i restarted my computer my screen resolution was resized to 800 x 600 what could this mean?

Post3:tried to go to my settings to resize everything and it did say something about drivers and it was compatable with this version of windows or something weird and the resolution options were: 1px by 1px

Post 4:Invalid Display Settings:
The currently selected graphics display driver can not be used. It was written for a previous version of Windows, and is no longer comptatible with this version of Windows.

The system has been started using the default VGA driver.

Please contact your hardwar manufacturer to get an upgraded driver, or select one of the Microsoft provided drivers.

that is what the message says. Wtf is going on...

Post 5:I'm reinstalling them as we speak. I also had an update so waiting for that will report back once it completes.

Post 6: How do i check what drivers I have installed? Everything is so slow right now it doesn't look like there is anything. Like scrolling down the page is really slow, lagged, I can change my resolution now, but only in large increments of 800 x 600 then 1024x768 then 1280x1024 then 1600x1200 which is weird cus this monitor can't go that high.

Post 7:i went my 8800gt properties and under device status it says "Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged (Code 19)"

there that's the jist of it.

 

[lgestle]

Try running memtest and confirm you have the correct memory settings within the bios for your vendor. Corrupted saved games among corrupted registry is usually tied to that.