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| Thread ID: 93748 | 2008-09-29 12:34:00 | computer is buggered | motorbyclist (188) | Press F1 |
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| 708652 | 2008-09-30 11:11:00 | Try this - your pic with the blue screen in the original post gives a hint/ possible answer the Stop Error 0X000000B4 along with the second line "The Video Driver Failed to Initialize" According to MS one reason could be there's a conflict between the LPT1 Printer port and graphics, explaining why no video card change makes any difference. Have a look This here (support.microsoft.com) on how to fix it. Note: you may need to boot into the BIOS and see if you can disable the LPT1 port first - the wording under OR near the bottom of the instructions. right, that bluscreen doesn't occur with the 8600gt, but does with the 6600gt, assumedly due to driver issues as the bluscreen mentioned of course that's never happened to me before when swapping things around willy nilly, so will look at disabling the lpt1 port in the bios can't boot into safe mode with either video card and not sure if these motherboards even have lpt1 ports |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 708653 | 2008-09-30 11:40:00 | Get a newer version of Ubuntu. it's at 8.04 now, 6.06 was made 2 years ago and probably can't handle your hardware (too new) or do what the error says and try booting with the 'noapic' option. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 708654 | 2008-09-30 12:45:00 | Get a newer version of Ubuntu. it's at 8.04 now, 6.06 was made 2 years ago and probably can't handle your hardware (too new) or do what the error says and try booting with the 'noapic' option. i did and it wont work with the 8600 yeah i'll have to get a newer linux, but in the meantime i need to get windows booting |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 708655 | 2008-09-30 17:13:00 | last resort and any data on the disk is in danger of possibly being lost using this method, never happened when Ive done it but still a possibility and should be considered, try a repair install ie over install the existing OS, sometimes called a dirty install. I always use this as a last resort and never comes with a guarantee of it working. |
beama (111) | ||
| 708656 | 2008-09-30 18:39:00 | Can you get into safe mode with Command prompt ? If you can - Wind the system back a day or two using restore. At the command prompt, type C:\windows\system32\restore\rstrui.exe Press Enter. Follow the instructions given to perform the System Restore process. There is other ways of getting restore to work as well,but it requires downloading a program and installing on another XP computer, the XP CD may be required as well. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 708657 | 2008-09-30 22:28:00 | You can also boot from recovery console and manually restore the registry through the command line, which may or may not do something | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 708658 | 2008-09-30 23:08:00 | Can you get into safe mode with Command prompt ? nope before resorting to a repair install i will try swapping graphics cards with another machine to see if the 8600gt will run repair of windows won't help much if it's the hardware at fault:badpc: |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 708659 | 2008-09-30 23:29:00 | This may or may not do anything - try booting from the XP CD, select R to enter the recovery console - Select the drive usually Number 1 unless you have windows on a different partition/ Drive letter - when you get to administrator Pass word - simply hit enter. At the command prompt type in chkdsk /r let it scan the drive, it may find some faults and hopefully repair them. Unfortunately you cant run system restore back to before it was playing up from the recovery console on the CD, hence the question about safe mode / command prompt - that does work, other wise there is another way to run the system back, but depends how much work you want to do instead of a repair install.(which also have no effect) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 708660 | 2008-10-03 10:23:00 | chkdsk is a good idea actually will do that (and the video card) this saturday with a bit of luck |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 708661 | 2008-10-06 05:37:00 | This may or may not do anything - try booting from the XP CD, select R to enter the recovery console - Select the drive usually Number 1 unless you have windows on a different partition/ Drive letter - when you get to administrator Pass word - simply hit enter. At the command prompt type in chkdsk /r let it scan the drive, it may find some faults and hopefully repair them. tried but no one knows the password think i've figured out what it was, but now whenever i boot it gives one long beep then three short ones which a quick google tells me is the video card (or ram, but memtest told me that was fine) so, off to test the vid card i guess (maybe the slot is buggered?) |
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