Video Driver not Loading on Windows XP

re: Video Driver not Loading on Windows XP

Craig Landis — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:36:27 GMT

Note that this same issue causes RDP failures where you try to logon via RDP and it fails to connect but doesn't show any error. The target computer will show the following event in the System log:

Event Type: Information

Event Source: Application Popup

Event Category: None

Event ID: 26

Description:

Application popup: : \SystemRoot\System32\RDPDD.dll failed to load

0000: 00000000 006c0002 00000000 4000001a

0010: c0000017 c000009a 00000000 00000000

0020: 00000000 00000000

On an older Nvidia driver (9/17/2008 version 6.14.11.7813) I got it working with SessionImageSize of 0x20. But then I tried the 280.26 series driver (8/3/2011 version: 6.14.12.8026) and I was able to remove SessionImageSize completely and RDP still worked.

This was on a 2003 SP2 x86 server where LiveKD showed the effective SessionImageSize with no registry value set to be:

kd> dd nt!MmSessionImageSize l1

808af27c 00800000

re: Video Driver not Loading on Windows XP

Mark Weiss, P.E. — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:52:26 GMT

When I tried increasing SessionImageSize to hex 20 value, Windows XP would load with random "<program dll> failed to initialize" errors. The first time I booted with this new tweak, the machine complained it couldn't find an IP address on the network. The second time I booted, GUI.exe (part of Gigabyte EasyTune 5) couldn't load. The third time, one of the Nero dlls failed to init.

I changed this value back to hex 10 value and now the system boots without errors.

I tried this tweak because my system logs are filled with vga.exe failed to load errors and I am running the /3GB switch so that I can use Adobe CS3 programs.

Any ideas why increasing the session space causes programs/services to fail at startup?

re: Video Driver not Loading on Windows XP

thomas — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:07:31 GMT

this blog post saved us a lot of time!

if you buy a new hp dc8100 with for instance a nvidia fx580, you will run into this problem...

big thanks outta austria!!

see ya

re: Video Driver not Loading on Windows XP

gallwapa — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:11:07 GMT

Display driver over 8 MB for 32 bit code... uhh ...bloat much?

Would love to know who the vendor was (my money is on Nvidia, since their control panel has become an OS in and of itself...)