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TPE
October 8th, 2007, 12:24 AM
In vista whenever I open "Computer" a message comes up and says "Windows Explorer has stopped working." Then I have to restart Windows Exlporer. It pretty much started when I O/Ced my GPU with ATI tool. =\

System specs are

Manufacturer: Compaq Presario Processor: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3100+, ~1.8GHz Memory: 1534MB RAM Hard Drive: 160GB Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM) Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor Sound Card: Speakers (USB Audio Device) Speakers/Headphones: Plantronics headset Keyboard: G15 Mouse: G7 Operating System: Windows Vista™ Ultimate

Con
October 8th, 2007, 12:30 AM
you overclocked an NVidia card with an ATI program?

TPE
October 8th, 2007, 12:36 AM
Thats what I thought till I downloaded it

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g98/TPE_NS/atitool.jpg

When I first figured out riva tunner did not work in vista. I downloaded ATI tool for laughs and it worked :v

Zeph
October 8th, 2007, 12:43 AM
Open your device manager and see what card it reports you to have.

TPE
October 8th, 2007, 12:48 AM
Same one in my specs

NVIDIA GeForce 6200 (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)

TPE
October 8th, 2007, 12:55 AM
Sad thing is I never installed the drivers for vista.

With the drivers i get about 20 less FPS in games as when I don't have drivers. In H2V without drivers I can run it at 1024X768 Med texture quality with 15-25 FPS. With the drivers I run H2V at 800X600 at low with 10 FPS.

I'm going to try a repair install.

Edit: Would not let me repair.

But when I rebooted back into vista and all my programs were booting up. Windows Live messenger went non responsive (Happens every time, damn thing wont ever boot) So I just uninstalled that and then I could open Computer. Don't break out the cigars yet though

When I was typing this edit. Windows suddenly went out of areo and then a message came up that said "Ready boost has stopped working" even though I'm not using ready boost.

Edit2: It went back into areo automatically after like 2 min of waiting. I will consider it fixed unless it happens again.

Con
October 8th, 2007, 01:05 AM
ATITool works with both sides, like Rivatuner.

If you messed something up with the overclock, just reinstalling the drivers should take care of it.
srsly? dat's kewl