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HELP! Install Disaster!
Oh dear, I'm not very happy.
I have a PC with integrated nVidia graphics and XP Home (full spec below). I have recently purchased an XFX 6800GT (AGP) card. This is what happened: Firstly, did a system restore point (thank goodness). Downloaded latest nVidia drivers to a safe place. Tried to uninstall exising display drivers. Couldn't find anything in Add/Remove Programs so looked in Device Manager. Found the Integrated GPU adapter, tried to uninstall. Got a requester "Can not install. Driver may be required during boot up". Disabled instead. Rebooted. Booted up fine in standard VGA mode. Ran Drvier Cleaner 3.3 as recommended on this board. Two Nvidia type things existed in the drop down box. Cleaned out both. Turned off PC. Plugged in new card and pluged in power dongle. Booted up. BIOS comes up, then screen goes black and PC resets. Boots up again, then get the message offering Safe Modes. Try Safe Mode, same thing happens. Turn off and remove new card. Same thing happens. Try the all the options, Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Safe Mode with Command Prompt, Last Known Good Configuration and Normal Windows. Same things happens with all modes, except Command Prompt when a whole series of driver names and system files come up, probably just the normal boot up process. Can anyone help? What's happened? I've obviously deleted a bit too much. I don't have an XP disk as the machine came preloaded. I can't see any way of fixing it - how do I go back to my restore point if I don't get into Windows? PLEASE HELP!! C |
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"Leodiensian" wrote in message om... Oh dear, I'm not very happy. I have a PC with integrated nVidia graphics and XP Home (full spec below). I have recently purchased an XFX 6800GT (AGP) card. This is what happened: Firstly, did a system restore point (thank goodness). Downloaded latest nVidia drivers to a safe place. Tried to uninstall exising display drivers. Couldn't find anything in Add/Remove Programs so looked in Device Manager. Found the Integrated GPU adapter, tried to uninstall. Got a requester "Can not install. Driver may be required during boot up". Disabled instead. Rebooted. Booted up fine in standard VGA mode. Ran Drvier Cleaner 3.3 as recommended on this board. Two Nvidia type things existed in the drop down box. Cleaned out both. Turned off PC. Plugged in new card and pluged in power dongle. Booted up. BIOS comes up, then screen goes black and PC resets. Boots up again, then get the message offering Safe Modes. Try Safe Mode, same thing happens. Turn off and remove new card. Same thing happens. Try the all the options, Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Safe Mode with Command Prompt, Last Known Good Configuration and Normal Windows. Same things happens with all modes, except Command Prompt when a whole series of driver names and system files come up, probably just the normal boot up process. Can anyone help? What's happened? I've obviously deleted a bit too much. I don't have an XP disk as the machine came preloaded. I can't see any way of fixing it - how do I go back to my restore point if I don't get into Windows? PLEASE HELP!! In all of that you don't mention the most obvious point, which I hope you've done since it is obvious. Did you disable the intrgrated GPU in the bios? |
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Try clearing the cmos. It seems like you have a video related problem
because command prompt works. DaveL "Leodiensian" wrote in message om... Oh dear, I'm not very happy. I have a PC with integrated nVidia graphics and XP Home (full spec below). I have recently purchased an XFX 6800GT (AGP) card. This is what happened: Firstly, did a system restore point (thank goodness). Downloaded latest nVidia drivers to a safe place. Tried to uninstall exising display drivers. Couldn't find anything in Add/Remove Programs so looked in Device Manager. Found the Integrated GPU adapter, tried to uninstall. Got a requester "Can not install. Driver may be required during boot up". Disabled instead. Rebooted. Booted up fine in standard VGA mode. Ran Drvier Cleaner 3.3 as recommended on this board. Two Nvidia type things existed in the drop down box. Cleaned out both. Turned off PC. Plugged in new card and pluged in power dongle. Booted up. BIOS comes up, then screen goes black and PC resets. Boots up again, then get the message offering Safe Modes. Try Safe Mode, same thing happens. Turn off and remove new card. Same thing happens. Try the all the options, Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Safe Mode with Command Prompt, Last Known Good Configuration and Normal Windows. Same things happens with all modes, except Command Prompt when a whole series of driver names and system files come up, probably just the normal boot up process. Can anyone help? What's happened? I've obviously deleted a bit too much. I don't have an XP disk as the machine came preloaded. I can't see any way of fixing it - how do I go back to my restore point if I don't get into Windows? PLEASE HELP!! C |
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Leodiensian wrote:
Oh dear, I'm not very happy. I have a PC with integrated nVidia graphics and XP Home (full spec below). I have recently purchased an XFX 6800GT (AGP) card. This is what happened: Firstly, did a system restore point (thank goodness). Downloaded latest nVidia drivers to a safe place. Tried to uninstall exising display drivers. Couldn't find anything in Add/Remove Programs so looked in Device Manager. Found the Integrated GPU adapter, tried to uninstall. Got a requester "Can not install. Driver may be required during boot up". Disabled instead. Rebooted. Booted up fine in standard VGA mode. Ran Drvier Cleaner 3.3 as recommended on this board. Two Nvidia type things existed in the drop down box. Cleaned out both. Turned off PC. Plugged in new card and pluged in power dongle. Booted up. BIOS comes up, then screen goes black and PC resets. Boots up again, then get the message offering Safe Modes. Try Safe Mode, same thing happens. Turn off and remove new card. Same thing happens. Try the all the options, Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Safe Mode with Command Prompt, Last Known Good Configuration and Normal Windows. Same things happens with all modes, except Command Prompt when a whole series of driver names and system files come up, probably just the normal boot up process. Can anyone help? What's happened? I've obviously deleted a bit too much. I don't have an XP disk as the machine came preloaded. I can't see any way of fixing it - how do I go back to my restore point if I don't get into Windows? PLEASE HELP!! C I've never had any problems installing new drivers on top of old ones, or vice versa. I never made any attempt to clean out the old drivers. A little late for this for you, but I'd try that in the future. If you get burned doing it the lazy man's way, you can try something else, but something else is what you tried and it didn't work out too well. Good luck with fixing it, but sometimes reinstalling Windows is the only way out. |
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Some system vendors, HP for instance, ship OEM O/S disks with the system.
You will need these OEM disks when O/S upgrade time rolls around so look again. If you did not get any OEM O/S disks, check with your system vendor to get replacements. Some system vendors, again HP for instance, provide disks to perform a system recovery. These system recovery disks will restore the system to 'factory' state, IOW, the way it was when it left the factory. HP also provides for application recovery only and driver recovery only. I think DELL provides both OEM O/S disks and system recovery disks as well. You should have both OEM O/S disks and system recovery disks of some kind. |
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check the BIOS for on board video and disable it...also if you do not have
any XP discs at all..recovery or a reload disc with a serial #..then the place where you got it has sold you an illegal computer. By law you must have a disc of some sort with a serial#. |
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Thanks everyone for the advice. I stupidly forgot to list my system
specs - I have an nForce 2 motherboard so disabling the integrated graphics wasn't an issue, it happens automatically when it detects an AGP card. I don't have any XP disks at all, but I have solved the problem by borrowing a friend's copy of XP Home. I went through the install process and opted to recover a previous installation. All appears to be as it was before! I've now successfully installed my new 6800GT. Two quick questions: 1. Windows is now prompting me to activate. AARRGH! I've used another XP CD with a different Product Key. I suppose technically I've infringed copyright, although all I did was recover a previous legitimate installation. What should I do? If I call Microsoft are they going to send round the boys? I can't remember whether I activated my previous version or whether it was activated when I got it. The vendor is Watford Electronics, which is well known in the UK. 2. Would you mind telling me if these benchmarks are about right? Decent video card but mid-range system. 3DMark01: 15962 3DMark03: 10169 System is: Athlon XP 2800+ Barton 1Gb Generic PC2700 RAM Win XP Home XFX 6800GT AGP Tagan 480W PSU Many thanks for all your kind help getting me going again! C |
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The windows the machine came with was probably already activated. Did you
try to re-activate it? Try it. If it is declined, call microsoft with the phone number listed on the screen. There is also a code number that pops up on the screen. You'll need that too. I recently was declined reactivation after I updated my Nforce drivers and suddenly on reboot windows said I needed to activate. It said my hardware had changed or something. This is bull. Any way, I tried and it said I had activated too many times with this key. This is my third system with the same copy of windows XP Pro. Not my fault I'm a computer geek who likes to upgrade and tweak stuff. I called and the Microsoft guy, who sounded like he was a Hindu Indian, asked me a couple of questions and then game me a code to punch in and I'm back in business now. 3DMark01: 15962 3DMark03: 10169 Who cares about the 3dmark01 score. That's old school and does not apply too much to your new video card. The 3dmark03 score is great and is a good indicator of how your system will perform in todays games. DaveL "Leodiensian" wrote in message oups.com... Thanks everyone for the advice. I stupidly forgot to list my system specs - I have an nForce 2 motherboard so disabling the integrated graphics wasn't an issue, it happens automatically when it detects an AGP card. I don't have any XP disks at all, but I have solved the problem by borrowing a friend's copy of XP Home. I went through the install process and opted to recover a previous installation. All appears to be as it was before! I've now successfully installed my new 6800GT. Two quick questions: 1. Windows is now prompting me to activate. AARRGH! I've used another XP CD with a different Product Key. I suppose technically I've infringed copyright, although all I did was recover a previous legitimate installation. What should I do? If I call Microsoft are they going to send round the boys? I can't remember whether I activated my previous version or whether it was activated when I got it. The vendor is Watford Electronics, which is well known in the UK. 2. Would you mind telling me if these benchmarks are about right? Decent video card but mid-range system. 3DMark01: 15962 3DMark03: 10169 System is: Athlon XP 2800+ Barton 1Gb Generic PC2700 RAM Win XP Home XFX 6800GT AGP Tagan 480W PSU Many thanks for all your kind help getting me going again! C |
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"Leodiensian" wrote in message oups.com... Thanks everyone for the advice. I stupidly forgot to list my system specs - I have an nForce 2 motherboard so disabling the integrated graphics wasn't an issue, it happens automatically when it detects an AGP card. I don't have any XP disks at all, but I have solved the problem by borrowing a friend's copy of XP Home. I went through the install process and opted to recover a previous installation. All appears to be as it was before! I've now successfully installed my new 6800GT. Two quick questions: 1. Windows is now prompting me to activate. AARRGH! I've used another XP CD with a different Product Key. I suppose technically I've infringed copyright, although all I did was recover a previous legitimate installation. What should I do? If I call Microsoft are they going to send round the boys? I can't remember whether I activated my previous version or whether it was activated when I got it. The vendor is Watford Electronics, which is well known in the UK. 2. Would you mind telling me if these benchmarks are about right? Decent video card but mid-range system. 3DMark01: 15962 3DMark03: 10169 System is: Athlon XP 2800+ Barton 1Gb Generic PC2700 RAM Win XP Home XFX 6800GT AGP Tagan 480W PSU Many thanks for all your kind help getting me going again! C Have you losts the disks or did Watford not supply them? Even if Watford use disk cloning to install their software they still should supply a set of original installation disks for all the software you bought. |
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