[SOLVED] 8800GT won't display login

dvd604

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Hello everyone, yesterday we had 2/3 power cuts due to my dad playing with an old PSU, we have a switch board, so nothing was damaged, except my computer.

When I turned my computer on, all was normal, she displayed the BIOS, Hardware Monitor and Windows logo normally, but when it got to the login screen, 1 of my 2 monitors went dead, saying that the resolution was too high to display. I restarted and the problem continued, the next thing I tried was to boot in safe mode, it went fine, and displayed my login screen, but the NVidia drivers didn't load, but this is normal in safe mode, I reinstalled the drivers for the GPU, and restarted, same problem, reseated the GPU, same problem, got new VGA cables and DVI to VGA converters, same problem.

Specs:

GPU: Geforce 8800gt
CPU: AMD Phenom 2 quad core @ 3.31GHz
Monitors: 2 x Dell 2007FBp
PSU: 450w un-branded
HDD: 1 x 80GB IDE, 1 x 1TB sATA
 
Solution
Did you check video options? If only one monitor is not working, you need to check if the second one is listed at all, and if it is check the resolution and refresh rate. Card could have gotten damaged also, I have seen cards where one output port went bad. Test both ports.

dvd604

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Ok, so I've found a 400W ace up in the attic, and I'm wondering if it'll do, else there is a 650W ace, but it's unopened at the minute, so I'll have to give my dad a ring:) Thank you
 

dvd604

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They are all my dad's old ones:p from his computers like 20 years ago, the one I have currently is an old school one that I knew was going to need to be changed.
 


WHich was a lot for the time... :p

Still though, 450 on a crappy PSU is a very bad idea.
 

Not really no and it's less than their modern day counterparts need.
 
Did you check video options? If only one monitor is not working, you need to check if the second one is listed at all, and if it is check the resolution and refresh rate. Card could have gotten damaged also, I have seen cards where one output port went bad. Test both ports.
 
Solution

dvd604

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Turns out, it was a damaged registry, a quick replace of the registry from the regback folder on a linux live disk cleared up my problem, thank you every one:)
 

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