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| Thread ID: 93194 | 2008-09-07 05:53:00 | Endless Boot (BSoD), Can't locate Cause | Swarms (14153) | Press F1 |
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| 703232 | 2008-09-07 23:03:00 | Altho, using the latest version of any driver from whatever site is not always a good idea. The other PC here, kept crashing with the latest version of the ATI drivers In the end, I uninstalled the ATI drivers, cleaned them out with drivercleaner deleted the folders. Then downloaded the ASUS ATI drivers. I have no idea what the diff is between the 2. But the other computer hasn't crashed since I installed the ASUS drivers (since its an ASUS ATI card) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 703233 | 2008-09-07 23:12:00 | Altho, using the latest version of any driver from whatever site is not always a good idea. The other PC here, kept crashing with the latest version of the ATI drivers True, sometimes there are issues with the very latest in which case get the previous version. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 703234 | 2008-09-08 03:03:00 | I'm surprised you had no problem putting your drive in your brothers PC, its probably because the boards are similar enough. Normally it would BSOD on drivers because the hardware is different. What was the original problem with your graphics card? When you did your fresh install, did you load all the drivers? Motherboard chipset? The latest ATI driver from ATIs website? Have you changed anything in the BIOS especially to do with the drive? I appreciate you guys still working on this. When I put my drive in my brothers PC with my Vista on it it loaded fine...1000 messages popped up for this driver missing and that driver missing...but it loaded windows and everything ran...I was just trying to verify the drive was working. The original problem with my old ATI card that I RMA'd was bad memory (or so I'm told)....It was about 2 years old and it started getting red and blue dots everywhere on dark screens. Manufacturer was out of business (Newegg) so they refunded original purchase price (WOW) so I bought a new card....the 8800GT. I didn't do anything when I originally put the card in. I put it in and windows wouldn't boot. I haven't been able to load any drivers or anything for the card, but I figured windows would load standard VGA drivers or something...but it would at least boot, right? Since troubleshooting all this I have tried 3 different versions of my bios, and set it back to defaults. I'm not all that savvy with bios settings, but I couldn't see anything there that needed to be changed to load my card. I noticed that STOP Error but I don't see how it can be a bad boot sector when I'm using a fresh install of windows. Also, I've used 3 different hard drives now, and as I said, my driver worked in my brother's PC. If it had a bad boot sector, how did it boot on the other computer? I did notice in the Vista install there is a place to "Load Drivers" for what I think is the hard drive or controller...but I've never had to do that before...and I wouldn't even know what to load. I have another card coming (ATI) so I guess we'll know for sure in a few days. BTW...sorry my posts are so long. I just figure too much info is better than too little. |
Swarms (14153) | ||
| 703235 | 2008-09-08 04:01:00 | I didn't do anything when I originally put the card in. I put it in and windows wouldn't boot. Did the PC POST ok? If so, remove card, uninstall all graphics drivers, use DriverCleaner, then install the new driver. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 703236 | 2008-09-08 04:09:00 | Did the PC POST ok? If so, remove card, uninstall all graphics drivers, use DriverCleaner, then install the new driver. It posts fine..the problem is after post when it goes to start Windows...the green status light bar shows up for a split second and then it blue screens and reboots. How do I uninstall drivers when I've never gotten into windows? There shouldn't be any drivers loaded, right? |
Swarms (14153) | ||
| 703237 | 2008-09-11 20:20:00 | Just wanted to let you guys know that I got the new video card today and I still have the same problem. Now the problem seems to be after POST it just sits with a blinking cursor instead of attempting to load Windows (fresh install). I have now swapped Motherboard, Power Supply, Ram, Hard Drives, Video Card....I'm starting to think it's not hardware. But I'm out of ideas on what else to try. |
Swarms (14153) | ||
| 703238 | 2008-09-12 05:34:00 | Ok, in case anyone is still curious or finds this through a search engine.... I'm guessing it was the video card. After replacing that with the new ATI card I had the blinking icon. Some searching led me to some forums explaining it was some kind of MBR/Windows error...something about NEEDING to reformat when you switch motherboards, which I did while I was testing, not realizing that it wouldn't work with the new motherboard without formatting. Anyway, yet another format and fresh install of windows seems to have everything running smoothly. That's for everyone that tried to help. |
Swarms (14153) | ||
| 703239 | 2008-09-12 06:05:00 | Thats why I asked how did you format in post #2 Because system restore will be wiped (whats the point in using system restore before you format. Since the restore point will get wiped) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 703240 | 2008-09-12 06:09:00 | Well I had used System Restore a day before I formatted. Tried the system restore first to see if that would fix it. I then did a fresh format and install. I have formatted this drive with a new windows 4 times this week now. | Swarms (14153) | ||
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