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I hate computers Video problem
I have a 3 Ghz XP machine. The graphics card is a Nvidia 6800.
I took it out to check to see if another card was bad. I put in a 5500 long enough to find out it was good. I shut down the computer and put the 6800 back in. (and plugged the molex plug in) The computer shows the mobo banner, and shows the Windoze loading status bar. The status bar makes about 4 passes, and then reboots. A couple of times it flashed the blue screen of death for just an instant. Suggestions? |
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I hate computers Video problem
In article , Metspitzer wrote:
I have a 3 Ghz XP machine. The graphics card is a Nvidia 6800. I took it out to check to see if another card was bad. I put in a 5500 long enough to find out it was good. I shut down the computer and put the 6800 back in. (and plugged the molex plug in) The computer shows the mobo banner, and shows the Windoze loading status bar. The status bar makes about 4 passes, and then reboots. A couple of times it flashed the blue screen of death for just an instant. Suggestions? You caused windows XP to think that enough hardware changed to require a repair install of windows. Once enough changes to hardware is done, windows considers that you are basically running on a new machine and requires you to reinstall and reactivate the PC. Do a google search on how to do a "Repair Install XP" |
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I hate computers Video problem
"Metspitzer" wrote in message ... I have a 3 Ghz XP machine. The graphics card is a Nvidia 6800. I took it out to check to see if another card was bad. I put in a 5500 long enough to find out it was good. I shut down the computer and put the 6800 back in. (and plugged the molex plug in) The computer shows the mobo banner, and shows the Windoze loading status bar. The status bar makes about 4 passes, and then reboots. A couple of times it flashed the blue screen of death for just an instant. Suggestions? what did you do about the drivers.... did you remove the 6800 drivers before putting the 5500 board and loading its drivers then unload them before replacing the 6800 and its drivers ? |
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I hate computers Video problem
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:06:09 +0100, "Tom E" wrote:
"Metspitzer" wrote in message .. . I have a 3 Ghz XP machine. The graphics card is a Nvidia 6800. I took it out to check to see if another card was bad. I put in a 5500 long enough to find out it was good. I shut down the computer and put the 6800 back in. (and plugged the molex plug in) The computer shows the mobo banner, and shows the Windoze loading status bar. The status bar makes about 4 passes, and then reboots. A couple of times it flashed the blue screen of death for just an instant. Suggestions? what did you do about the drivers.... did you remove the 6800 drivers before putting the 5500 board and loading its drivers then unload them before replacing the 6800 and its drivers ? No I didn't. I have changed video cards before, and never uninstalled the previous. I was going to uninstall the drivers after the switch, but there doesn't seem to be any way to unload the Nvidia manager. I can change the Nividia nView Desktop manager from disable to enable, but I don't see any way to remove it. The only driver in the device manager is for the 5500. |
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"Metspitzer" wrote in message ... On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:06:09 +0100, "Tom E" wrote: "Metspitzer" wrote in message . .. I have a 3 Ghz XP machine. The graphics card is a Nvidia 6800. I took it out to check to see if another card was bad. I put in a 5500 long enough to find out it was good. I shut down the computer and put the 6800 back in. (and plugged the molex plug in) The computer shows the mobo banner, and shows the Windoze loading status bar. The status bar makes about 4 passes, and then reboots. A couple of times it flashed the blue screen of death for just an instant. Suggestions? what did you do about the drivers.... did you remove the 6800 drivers before putting the 5500 board and loading its drivers then unload them before replacing the 6800 and its drivers ? No I didn't. I have changed video cards before, and never uninstalled the previous. I was going to uninstall the drivers after the switch, but there doesn't seem to be any way to unload the Nvidia manager. I can change the Nividia nView Desktop manager from disable to enable, but I don't see any way to remove it. The only driver in the device manager is for the 5500. Add and Remove programs |
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I hate computers Video problem
In article , GMAN
says... You caused windows XP to think that enough hardware changed to require a repair install of windows. Rubbish. I've done a complete motherboard swap going from SiS chipsetted Athlon XP to an Intel chipsetted P4 and it didn't need a repair install. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams |
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In article , Metspitzer
says... No I didn't. I have changed video cards before, and never uninstalled the previous. You can usually get away with that if you're going from say onboard to ATI or ATI to nVidia but when you're doing nVidia to nVidia, sometimes it can go wrong. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams |
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"Conor" wrote in message ... In article , Metspitzer says... No I didn't. I have changed video cards before, and never uninstalled the previous. You can usually get away with that if you're going from say onboard to ATI or ATI to nVidia but when you're doing nVidia to nVidia, sometimes it can go wrong. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams Have you tried starting in safe mode and then choosing a system restore point before the new video card? -- Jan Alter |
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I hate computers Video problem
Conor wrote:
In article , GMAN says... You caused windows XP to think that enough hardware changed to require a repair install of windows. Rubbish. I've done a complete motherboard swap going from SiS chipsetted Athlon XP to an Intel chipsetted P4 and it didn't need a repair install. And so have I. But it doesn't always work. -- SteveH |
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