Viewing DVDs on T61p causes BSOD infinite loop in nv4_disp
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:33 pm
I have an 8891-CTO T61P with the DVD-ROM/CDRW ultrabay drive. I have had problems watching DVDs on the system from day one. I first had artifacting and program freezing with the pre-loaded version of WinDVD. I upgraded to WinDVD 8, thinking that might solve the problem.
It didn't.
It got worse...now I can repeatably lockup WinDVD (40% of the time) and BSOD the whole system (60% of the time) by playing any commercial DVD. When the BSOD occurs, the information screen says that nv4_disp is caught in an infinite loop. I have also tested an old copy of NVDVD 2.55 with the same results, and swapped out the DVD drive I purchased with a combo DVDRW/CDRW from a T42p, again with the same results. Has anyone else had this problem?
It didn't.
It got worse...now I can repeatably lockup WinDVD (40% of the time) and BSOD the whole system (60% of the time) by playing any commercial DVD. When the BSOD occurs, the information screen says that nv4_disp is caught in an infinite loop. I have also tested an old copy of NVDVD 2.55 with the same results, and swapped out the DVD drive I purchased with a combo DVDRW/CDRW from a T42p, again with the same results. Has anyone else had this problem?