Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: bdpeterson on September 22, 2010, 05:31:10 PM
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Well over the summer i bought a new graphics card to play global agenda. it worked very well until recently. My computer constantly crashed error message said ndis.sys i coudlnt find a solution so i disabled the graphics card and my crashing stopped but i cant play games. i have a gigabye g41m-es4m motherboard and a gforce 9800 gt. the thing is the graphics card worked for a while but now causes constant crashing. Help please!!!!
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It probably has a 1 year warranty.
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Well it isnt quite been a year. but any advice on what to do would be awesome! im a gamer going into withdraw :)
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ndis.sys file has nothing to do with nVidia .
It's a wrapper driver, piece of software, which allows communication between Windows and various device drivers (including video driver).
Let's get some more info...
Download BlueScreenView (in Zip file) (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html)
No installation required.
Unzip downloaded file and double click on BlueScreenView.exe file to run the program.
When scanning is done, go Edit>Select All.
Go File>Save Selected Items, and save the report as BSOD.txt.
Open BSOD.txt in Notepad, copy all content, and paste it into your next reply.
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ndis.sys file has nothing to do with nVidia .
It's a wrapper driver, piece of software, which allows communication between Windows and various device drivers (including video driver).
NDIS=Network Driver Interface Specification.
I'm fairly certain it's only for Network drivers.
If that is the case, not sure why the crashes would cease, aside from perhaps the crash occurring as a result of network activity from games they can no longer play.
Additionally, since Nvidia manufactures motherboards with network interfaces, and presumably provides drivers for those network interfaces, I'm inclined to think that there is a relationship between NDIS and Nvidia (ok, it's a contrived example, I know what you meant)
the "wrapper" concept is probably from Linux, where if a Linux-based driver for a device is not available, a user can use a Linux driver called "ndiswrapper" (there are a number of variants, I think) which emulates the environment provided to Windows NDIS compatible drivers.
Of course none of this helps the Original Poster, ::) << that was at myself.
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Thanks for the correction :)