Hi, I'm hoping someone else will be able to help me with this problem. So I just went home for the holidays, and just before I went I decided to install Civ4 and the 1.61 patch on my laptop to take with me. (Usually I play on my desktop.) It worked fine but when I got home and turned on my laptop I got a BSOD with a "windows stopped to prevent damage" and an error code 0x7e etc. I didn't think much of it at the time because when I turned my laptop off and on again it booted up and everything worked. Well now it seems that every time I cold boot that happens, I guess nothing is wrong but still it is annoying and might do something bad.
I uninstalled Civ4 but that didn't fix it. I saw in dxdiag that some DirectX files were updated (oh, how I wish it had left them alone on install, they were dx9.0c and fine!) so I updated DX through MS and all but one of the files (named Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3Dx.dll) were updated to a new date, but there are 10ish files with that name and I don't know where to look to delete or change what may be the offending file.
I have other error codes but I can't seem to find much about the 0x7e code except that it is a driver thing. Maybe someone knows how to decipher the other parts of the error? 0x0000007e (0xc0000005, 0x00000000, 0xf79fdfd8, 0xf79fdcd4)
I guess it could be a video card thing, if it is related to directx. I have an ATI Radeon Mobility X300 and the driver version is 8.162. But I hate to update that since updating things is what messes up good computers.
And does anyone know if Norton Ghost could cause a problem like this?
Thanks a lot everyone!
I uninstalled Civ4 but that didn't fix it. I saw in dxdiag that some DirectX files were updated (oh, how I wish it had left them alone on install, they were dx9.0c and fine!) so I updated DX through MS and all but one of the files (named Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3Dx.dll) were updated to a new date, but there are 10ish files with that name and I don't know where to look to delete or change what may be the offending file.
I have other error codes but I can't seem to find much about the 0x7e code except that it is a driver thing. Maybe someone knows how to decipher the other parts of the error? 0x0000007e (0xc0000005, 0x00000000, 0xf79fdfd8, 0xf79fdcd4)
I guess it could be a video card thing, if it is related to directx. I have an ATI Radeon Mobility X300 and the driver version is 8.162. But I hate to update that since updating things is what messes up good computers.
And does anyone know if Norton Ghost could cause a problem like this?
Thanks a lot everyone!
