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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows Vista and 7 => Topic started by: zebra3 on March 27, 2012, 04:17:43 PM

Title: Pacer .sys
Post by: zebra3 on March 27, 2012, 04:17:43 PM

I have a Dell 8300 XPS , Windows 7 Service Pack 1 64 bit. 16GB Ram, Video Card Nvidia GT 430.  Within the last few day's I have been getting a warning in the Event Viewer that my display driver was restarted. I'm sure there was one of the ballon pop-out's warning me of the situation. (My wife is usually on the computer and probaly paid no attention to them). There has been no BSOD. I found the DMP file not in the Mini Dump File but in the WatchDog file (Don't know what this file is).

I just had two event's today. I used the program blue screen view and they both showed the "pacer.sys file" causing the error. The video card driver is the latest and also the BIOS. I ran the SFC verify program and it stated that everything is OK.

I attached the file's below. What would be the cause?

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Title: Re: Pacer .sys
Post by: Allan on March 27, 2012, 04:20:20 PM

Download BlueScreenView:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
unzip downloaded file and double click on BlueScreenView.exe to run the program.
when scanning is done, go to EDIT - Select All
Go to FILE - SAVE Selected Items, and save the report as BSOD.txt
Open BSOD.txt in Notepad, copy all of the content, and paste it into your next reply

Title: Re: Pacer .sys
Post by: zebra3 on March 27, 2012, 05:53:30 PM

See Attached

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Title: Re: Pacer .sys
Post by: Allan on March 28, 2012, 05:51:02 AM

I asked you to please post the results rather than upload a text file, but okay.

Look in Device Manager - are there any yellow or red symbols? And you said you had two "events". Please describe those events.

Title: Re: Pacer .sys
Post by: zebra3 on March 28, 2012, 04:10:04 PM

There are no yellow or red symbols in device manager. The two event's that I described were in the "Event Viewer" They both were Warning's Source: Display Event ID 4101. Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered. I found both of these event's in the Kernel log file under Watchdog.

Both were listed as DMP files. which is what I attached after the two event's happened.

Title: Re: Pacer .sys
Post by: patio on March 28, 2012, 04:11:25 PM

Try re-installing your vid card drivers...or roll them back to the previous version.

Title: Re: Pacer .sys
Post by: Allan on March 28, 2012, 04:12:10 PM

Ok. For now let's not worry about the event viewer. I'm have a little trouble following everything here - are there any issues with your system? Is it running okay?

Title: Re: Pacer .sys
Post by: zebra3 on March 28, 2012, 04:42:28 PM

As far as I know everything is running fine. About 3 month's ago I changed video cards from a ATI?Radeon HD 6450 to the current card Nvidia GT 430 the driver's are the most recent.  I usually run the Dell support Monitor which scan's all the hardware and show's everything is O.K.

For the time being I can roll back the driver's and see what happen's.

Title: Re: Pacer .sys
Post by: Allan on March 28, 2012, 04:48:19 PM

I guess I don't understand. Why are you doing anything? If the system is running okay leave it alone.

Title: Re: Pacer .sys
Post by: zebra3 on March 28, 2012, 06:02:19 PM

I didn't state that correctly. What I meant to say if the problem's keep's coming back that's one of the option's I will try.

Thank you very much for your help!