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| 524640 | 2007-02-14 20:54:00 | On a brand new hard drive I have just installed Windows 98SE along with motherboard, video and soundcard drivers downloaded from the internet since this is a second-hand PC and the owner was given no discs . Everything went well until the PC was switched off for the night then the next morning it would not boot into Windows . It would get as far as showing the "loading Windows 98" screen then just before you would see the Desktop it just shows a black blank screen with a blinking cursor at the top left . The lights are all on, everything is humming and I can boot into Safe Mode but it does a ScanDisk after the restart button is pressed . I figure it is the graphics driver that is causing the problem . When this first happened I could do nothing with it so reformatted and started again, this time installing an older Nvidia driver, 40 . 72 rather than the latest 81 . 98 but it has done the blank screen trick again this morning, just like yesterday . As I said previously, I can get into Safe Mode but can't do a thing with it like that . Any suggestions as to what the problem is and how to fix it? Mobo: ASUS CUV4X-C Socket 370 Graphics card: GE Force2 MX 32M AGP Sound card: SoundBlaster Live! Value Network card: Plant ENW-9503/9504 |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 524641 | 2007-02-14 21:18:00 | Hmmm . . . . . booted into Safe Mode, left it for 10 minutes then after a reboot it went happily into Windows . It didn't do that yesterday though . Now what? |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 524642 | 2007-02-14 21:47:00 | Now what?Give it back as soon as possible, b4 anything else happens!! | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 524643 | 2007-02-14 21:59:00 | Excellent idea, just what I was thinking myself !! :lol: | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 524644 | 2007-02-14 22:15:00 | Any suggestions as to what the problem is and how to fix it? A driver. Well you have already done what I would have - trying older versions - lets hope its happy now.......... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 524645 | 2007-02-14 22:45:00 | Well that's just it, it wasn't happy this morning with the older driver that was installed yesterday. You reckon I should uninstall that one and put on an even older one? How old is too old? I'm getting them from here (www.oldapps.com). The weird thing is that it happy hums away all day, including being switched off for an hour and only baulks at starting up after being shut down for 12 hours or so. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 524646 | 2007-02-14 22:53:00 | You could have used Drivercleaner Pro (if u can find it now) to remove all traces of the current/previous versions of the video drivers. Don't know if this would make it better or worse. Altho if they're Nvidia drivers, which by the sounds of it they are, their drivers got worse with every update (including crashing often). Which is why I replaced my card with an ATI card. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 524647 | 2007-02-14 23:35:00 | Altho if they're Nvidia drivers, which by the sounds of it they are, their drivers got worse with every update (including crashing often). Yeah, what's up with that? I have an (aging) Nvidia TNT2 card, that will only work 'properly' under WinXP with the original drivers for Win 2000. Any other update will cause either Windows to crash, or the display to be seriously weird ... |
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