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Godswatch
Hi Daave,
Heres the updates from my attempts this weekend.
I cant find any mention of onboard video on the motherboards specs, website
or manual. Nonetheless, over the weekend I went into device manager where
there are 2 devices under "other", a "vga" and "3d video controller." So I
disabled them, erased the drivers and rebooted the computer. Bad idea,
windows would load but my monitor would not show an image. I was navigating
blind through the windows desktop. I used the windows narrator program to
try to reload them but was just not getting it. So I gave up, reformatted my
hard drive, repartitioned it and reinstalled xp fresh.
I installed acronis true image and then the first driver I attempted to
install was the EVGA nvidia driver. I popped in the cd, the installation
began and 1/3 of the way through the screen blacked out and the pc rebooted.
It then entered into the splash screen reboot loop again. I entered safe
mode, couldnt delete the evga drivers from the "add new software" program
(received error about missing files). I tried again to install the drivers
from the EVGA cd and in safe mode was able to complete the entire
installation. Rebooted the computer but was again greeted with splash screen
reboot loop. Went back into safe mode, was able to delete the evga drivers
this time and upon rebooting the computer worked fine.
It could have been. It started over a month ago while my wife was surfing
MSN webpage but I dont remember having performed any driver updates except
for an occasional windows update and definitely no new hardware. I did
upgrade to SP3 but I dont remember if the probs began shortly after. Since
then I have reinstalled windows and kept it at SP2.
SP2 with no windows updates (although Ive also tried installing all the
updates except SP3 and I still have the same prob when I attempt to install
the video card drivers).
Dont have an extra, thinking of buying a cheapo one just to try.
Here is a list of things that have worked but never permanently. All of
these things have given me a functional pc for a few days tops:
1) virus, malware cleanup way back in the beginning (worked for 5 days)
2) chkdsk f (worked for 5 days) and r - worked for a few minutes
Ive since reformatted the drive, clean installed xp but never been able to
get it back up and running.
Hope this helps you help me. Thanks
Heres the updates from my attempts this weekend.
Daave said:
I cant find any mention of onboard video on the motherboards specs, website
or manual. Nonetheless, over the weekend I went into device manager where
there are 2 devices under "other", a "vga" and "3d video controller." So I
disabled them, erased the drivers and rebooted the computer. Bad idea,
windows would load but my monitor would not show an image. I was navigating
blind through the windows desktop. I used the windows narrator program to
try to reload them but was just not getting it. So I gave up, reformatted my
hard drive, repartitioned it and reinstalled xp fresh.
I installed acronis true image and then the first driver I attempted to
install was the EVGA nvidia driver. I popped in the cd, the installation
began and 1/3 of the way through the screen blacked out and the pc rebooted.
It then entered into the splash screen reboot loop again. I entered safe
mode, couldnt delete the evga drivers from the "add new software" program
(received error about missing files). I tried again to install the drivers
from the EVGA cd and in safe mode was able to complete the entire
installation. Rebooted the computer but was again greeted with splash screen
reboot loop. Went back into safe mode, was able to delete the evga drivers
this time and upon rebooting the computer worked fine.
It could have been. It started over a month ago while my wife was surfing
MSN webpage but I dont remember having performed any driver updates except
for an occasional windows update and definitely no new hardware. I did
upgrade to SP3 but I dont remember if the probs began shortly after. Since
then I have reinstalled windows and kept it at SP2.
SP2 with no windows updates (although Ive also tried installing all the
updates except SP3 and I still have the same prob when I attempt to install
the video card drivers).
Dont have an extra, thinking of buying a cheapo one just to try.
Here is a list of things that have worked but never permanently. All of
these things have given me a functional pc for a few days tops:
1) virus, malware cleanup way back in the beginning (worked for 5 days)
2) chkdsk f (worked for 5 days) and r - worked for a few minutes
Ive since reformatted the drive, clean installed xp but never been able to
get it back up and running.
Hope this helps you help me. Thanks