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Nvidia Drivers and Windows Vista

February 6th, 2010

Keith

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As of late, a seacrh on the web for the BSOD caused by the nvlddmkm.sys driver will yield many different “fixes” users have done to solve their problem. However, they did nothing for me. I have found another way that has not been mentioned. The video adapter I currently have is in the HP Slimline S3220N integrated nVidia GeForce 6150SE. Many sites I visited had suggested to navigate to the C:\Windows\Systen32|Drivers folder and remane the nvlddmkm.sys file to nvlddmkm.sys.old and the go to the nvidia driver folder and expand the nvlddmkm.sy_ in the the C:\Windows\Systen32|Drivers folder. Some claimed success but many still have had the same problem. Since I could not boot up under normal mode, I had to boot up in Safe Mode. I used Safe Mode with networking so I can access the internet. What I did was to visit the HP (or whatever your computer manufacture} website and downloaded the oldest display driver. The I went to the nVidia website and downloaded the newest driver. I then navigated to the device manager and uninstalled the video adapter. I installed the old video driver and restarted. I was able to boot into normal mode but once windows had finished installing the driver and restarted, the BSOD reappeared. I then rebooted into Safe Mode. This time, I navigated to the Device Manager and checked the drier version and also navigated to the C:\Windows\System32\Drivers folder to see if the nvlddmkm.sys were the same file number. Then I went to the nVidia downloaded file and started the update. Once the update was finished, I tried to start into normal mode. I still got the BSOD so I has to reboot into Safe Mode. I then went to the device manager and looked up the dipslay driver and then updated the driver with same driver. You should be able to reboot into normal mode. This had worked for me. Now if by chance it does not, then reboot into safe mode and navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\Drivers folder and rename the nvlddmkm.sys file to nvlddmkm.sys.old and reboot. This will only make the display a standard vga but it will work until nVidia is able to fix the problem.

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Tags: Add new tag, Booting, Device driver, Device Manager, GeForce, Microsoft Windows, nVidia, Safe Mode, Video card

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Who is going to protect the children from the Social Services?

January 7th, 2010

Keith

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Children who are often in a so called abusive family, are taken away from their family and are put into a foster family or some other ward of the state. Appeantly, the abuse does not stop there. In recent months, a pastor and his wife in Oklahoma were charged for sexually molesting two 14 year old girls that they were caring for, a social worker was recently charged with child abuse and who could forget the case in DC over a year ago where a well known and liked foster mother of the Social Service was found to have a dead child in the freezer. Are we taking the abused child from the pan and putting them into the fire?

The recent incidents does not really cause for a complete rebuild of the social services, but a better check on the caregivers could help. DC had pratically revamped their employees. For most states, the caseloads are over whelmimg and the manpower is low. Then you have the false reports that also put a burden on the over taxed system in the first place.

Of course, there are those that abuse the system. Some localities pay for having foster children. This may be incentive enough to have help for the children, but it also will bring out those that are there for just the money. Some of the social workers, sonce being on the inside, knows how to ‘work’ the system. This is an unfair advantage to those that actually go to social services for help and are turned away because there is no help avaliable or there is not enough money.

Whatever happens, something needs to be done to help protect pur children instead of putting them in a worse situation. How can a social worker declare a family unfit to care for their onw child when the social worker may not be fit themselves? With today’s tough economic times, families that are having troubles is facing a nightmare. However it may be, the system that was once useful is now broken and it is a time for a fix.