nvidia nv4 Display Driver failure, CRASHING!!

Was hoping somebody could help me with a Driver problem. My laptop has a nvidia GeForce 7600 Go graphics card and I currently have driver version 179.48.

While I am playing the game it will suddenly freeze up and I get the BSOD, stating that the nv4 display driver has failed. This problem has become more common and annoying as of late.

After searching the internet for new drivers it turns out that nvidia has stopped releasing new drivers for this card, and that this problem is common among many people.

So I was wondering if anybody could help me fix this. Here is my CoH Helper info:

---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.1.1.7---

DxDiag gathered at June 29, 2009 00:17 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090206-1234)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP Pavilion dv8000 (EX177AV)
BIOS: Ver 1.00PARTTBL
Central Processor: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 3070MB
.Net Memory Report: 2373MB out of 3070MB available
Page File: 4252MB (702MB currently in use)
C Drive: (ST9250421AS) 176417MB out of 238464MB (73%) free
F Drive: (Maxtor OneTouch USB Device) 227759MB out of 238472MB (95%) free
E Drive: (HP DVD Writer 740e USB Device) zero-size drive
D Drive: (PIONEER DVDRW DVR-K16) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DirectX Diag version: 5.03.2600.5512 (32-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor: Default Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce Go 7600
Video Memory: 256.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0011.7948
Driver Date: 1/30/2009 10:12:00 AM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Conexant HD Audio output
Driver File: CHDAud.sys
Driver Version: 3.40.0000.0000
Driver Date: 5/1/2007 3:11:54 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: 30A6
Motherboard Version: 56.37
BIOS Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
BIOS Name: Ver 1.00PARTTBL
BIOS Version: PTLTD - 6040000
BIOS Release: 20060510000000.000000+000

Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1440x900
3D Resolution: 1440x900 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes

Physics Quality: Medium
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No

Anti-aliasing: None
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: High Quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High

World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of Extra Player FX Enabled: No
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.596
Music Sound Volume: 0.596

Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.600
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 18423 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 18.20090422.5T
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found

Thank you for any help you can give me.

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C'mon somebody has to be able to help me.

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http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...showtopic=9243

Pretty much sums up what's going on with the drivers and laptops.

The laptop drivers are, by and large, *specific* to the laptop. I.E. NVidia themselves will not support the chips directly, you must go to the manufacturer (HP, in this case) and hope they have a driver that works for you.

However, that same site, laptopvideo2go.com, is where modded drivers can be had... but dang if I can figure out how to narrow it down, download, and use them.

One of the reasons I'm not a real laptop fan... this highly specialized driver stuff for video, audio, etc. And it's all due to the power thing, btw. Trying to eke out every single amp hour of energy from the batteries...

I dunno if that helps, but you pretty much see why nobody answered yet. It's difficult to deal with these laptop chips sometimes.

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August 31, 2012. A Day that will Live in Infamy. Or Information. Possibly Influence. Well, Inf, anyway. Thank you, Paragon Studios, for what you did, and the enjoyment and camaraderie you brought.
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Thank you for the reply. I can't seem to recall if I did indeed get the driver from nvidia or hp, but i will go ahead and install(or reinstall) whichever driver is given by HP.

Thanks again!

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Make sure you do a driver sweep or driver clean after uninstalling the old ones first...

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August 31, 2012. A Day that will Live in Infamy. Or Information. Possibly Influence. Well, Inf, anyway. Thank you, Paragon Studios, for what you did, and the enjoyment and camaraderie you brought.
This is houtex, aka Mike, signing off the forums. G'night all. - 10/26/2012
Well... perhaps I was premature about that whole 'signing off' thing... - 11-9-2012