installation nightmare solution

[menards]

grrrrrrrrrrrr.........

My winxp installed properly (or so I thought).... the loading screen does appear, but the blue bar passes only once then BLACK GOES THE SCREEN.

I just talked to my brother and he said he's experienced this crap too. What he did was leave -- he left the pc with it's black screen -- then he returned after 45 minutes to discover that it had restarted, and it was making him choose to go safe mode, etc.

he chose safe mode, and (out of a hunch?) disabled the driver of the video card.

then he restarted, went to normal mode, and voila!

has anyone experienced this crap too?

btw I'm using the very ancient VC-power magic ATI radeon 64MB DDR RAM.

and this is not the first time this has happened. Years before this has been happening. But now (I think) I know that it's that damn vid card that's causing the problem.

 

[bjpatrick]

XP was designed for new hardware. I have not had problems that you speak of. Try installing the OS again. If that does not work then swap out that video card for a new one.

What are the specs on your machine? This information would be quite helpful.

 

[khha4113]

I once had the same problem when I used the old Geforce 2 card and loaded it with the new Detonator driver. Upon Windows startup, I got BSOD, had to boot into Safemode and removed Detonator driver and changed to the old driver (before Detonator release). It cured the problem.

Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.

 

[menards]

problematic pc:
athlon XP1600+ 1.40 Ghz
motherboard: ECS K7AMA3
ram: 256DDR PC266



Aaah I finally remedied the problem.... I got my GFMX420 from my pc and stuck it on the problematic pc, and winxp loaded!!

meanwhile, I stuck the problematic power magic radeon 7000 on to my pc, and it worked! It prompted a safe mode first, but after a restart, it runs fine!

Weird... it's like the radeon works fine UNLESS YOU'RE INSTALLING WINXP

my pc
athlon64 2800+
motherboard: MSI K8M NEO-V K8M800/DDR/AGP-8x/SATA/SND/LAN
ram: 512DDR PC266