Hello everyone,
I'm new to this forum,but I think that you guys might be able to help me.
I've had my 3D Prophet III 4500 64mb for about six months now, and I think that it's causing my system to crash.
I'm running Windows XP and I often get bluescreens that say "pmxinit.sys" or another "pmx..." file has generated an error and generally messed up everything.
I'm not an avid fan of Hercules, but their card looked interesting and so I decided to buy it.
I've gotten this error message at least once a week for quite some time now, and I think I'm getting ready to buy a new video card. I have the latest drivers from Hercules, and they don't seem to help any. I'm using DirectX 8.1.
My machine is as follows:

Intel PIII 700Mhz
384MB SDRAM
20GB HD (I forget what brand it is)
ASUS CUVX-4D mobo
SoundBlaster Live! sound card
3D Prophet 4500 (duh)
LINKSYS Ethernet adaptor
generic 40x cdrom
HP 9100+ cd burner
KDS 17" monitor
cambridge soundworks 4.1 surround
HP DeskJet 648c

And that's about it.

Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Try running msconfig (Start/Run/MSConfig) and disabling pmxinit from running under the Startup tab. See if that helps you out a little and let us know if this helps!

Thanks for the input, but that didn't help any...
Anyone else have an idea?
I can't be the only person to have this problem...can I?

Take a look at this thread and see if your problem is similar. Or even this one. These are the only things I can find regarding your problem. Maybe if you describe exactly what the error is, we can better determine what is happening under your hood

Thanks Rob, I'll write it down next time I see one, which shouldn't be all that long...

Cool and thanks. Hopefully we can get to the bottom of your problem quickly.

It seems that just saying I was going to write down the error message has temporarily fixed my problem...I haven't gotten one in twelve hours, and I've had no problems...so far.
What incredible bad luck.
As soon as I say to forget about it, the error messages will invariably come back...
Oh well.

Ok then, say forget it and I'll check this thread again tomorrow!!