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| Thread ID: 86313 | 2008-01-12 04:40:00 | XP Video Driver crash on computer startup | Ron Bakker (356) | Press F1 |
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| 629645 | 2008-01-12 04:40:00 | Hey I bought a new laptop about 6 months ago, and it came preinstalled with Vista . I was impressed at first, but eventually the bugs became too much for me, and I decided to do something about it . I reformatted my laptop, and installed XP Pro . There was some problems at first getting the network card to work, but I managed that . My next problem is the Video adapter . The laptop itself is a Hp Compaq Presario v6302AU, with a Geforce Go 6150 graphics card . I downloaded the drivers HP recomended, and when they didn't work, I tried laptopvideo2go . com . I got 4 different drivers that were assured to work on my video card . They all had equal success- none . During installation, the computer would just switch off . Not shut down, but instantly go from powered-and-running to starting-up-again . The video drivers wouldn't work . So, I tried installing them in Safe mode . That made problems worse- they installed, then asked me to reset the computer . I did so, and when it got to the logon screen it would switch it's self off again . I've already had to reformat a second time, and I'm out of ideas here . Please, can someone help me out?!? |
Ron Bakker (356) | ||
| 629646 | 2008-01-12 08:00:00 | did you downloaded the graphic card driver from the Nvidia website? you might of installed the wrong driver. | grahic (12930) | ||
| 629647 | 2008-01-12 10:03:00 | Nvida doesn't offer downloads for laptop drivers . Instead, us laptop users have to go to laptopvideo2go to download one which will work . I got a working one no sweat when it had Vista . Even the one's I'm downloading now are for the correct OS (XP 32 bit) and specificlay say that they support my exact card . This problem is killing me . I've got SP2 installed, and even tried installing DirectX 9 . |
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| 629648 | 2008-01-13 06:43:00 | An update: When I just had Xp Pro installed, when I'd finish installing the driver, the computer would restart without warning. Then it wouldn't start up again- when it got to the logon screen, it would restart. I then tried installing SP2. This changed things slightly- the computer didn't restart. Instead, the screen went black. It stays switched on, but nothing happens. |
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| 629649 | 2008-01-13 20:53:00 | Have you installed the correct chipset drivers BEFORE you try to install the video driver? | ughnz (8297) | ||
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