A friend of mine had changed his motherboard recently and got an Asrock motherboard. Keeping the same hardware ( video card, hard disk, cpu etc.). The motherboard was installed by a famous retail shop. Obviously the hard disk required a format and we successfully reinstalled Windows Xp With Sp2 and August 06 hotfixes ( we installed it on Thursday). Things looked ok after the installation. Then my friend had to install some software.
The problem is here;
1) when he logs into his user account, the found new hardware window pops up and it’s a “Pci…. controller” (forgot the full hardware name), then, on clicking cancel, all desktop icons including the ones on desktop, system tray, quick lunch disappear and even those on the log on screen ( although the text underneath the icon is still displayed) .
2) when trying to play need for speed underground strange lines off all sort of colors all over the screen ( like overheating symptoms). Then on closing the game, he gets a black wallpaper and no icons displayed.
3) Then made it to safe mode to check if the previous pci thing pops up, and it pops up. One thing to note is that safe mode graphics were very weird. Textured like interface! Made it to Properties >settings and color quality only made it to 4 bit. Is this usual?
Hardware : (4-year old build)
Geforce 4 MX
Asrock Motherboard ( new installed few days ago )
Fax modem
And he also has a pci card with ( 2 x S-VHS, 2x Composite Video, 1 input and 1 output for each) with a firewire port.
What could be the problem/?
I told my friend to remove the fax modem and tell the expert at the shop to have a look at the video card
all suggestions accepted
The problem is here;
1) when he logs into his user account, the found new hardware window pops up and it’s a “Pci…. controller” (forgot the full hardware name), then, on clicking cancel, all desktop icons including the ones on desktop, system tray, quick lunch disappear and even those on the log on screen ( although the text underneath the icon is still displayed) .
2) when trying to play need for speed underground strange lines off all sort of colors all over the screen ( like overheating symptoms). Then on closing the game, he gets a black wallpaper and no icons displayed.
3) Then made it to safe mode to check if the previous pci thing pops up, and it pops up. One thing to note is that safe mode graphics were very weird. Textured like interface! Made it to Properties >settings and color quality only made it to 4 bit. Is this usual?
Hardware : (4-year old build)
Geforce 4 MX
Asrock Motherboard ( new installed few days ago )
Fax modem
And he also has a pci card with ( 2 x S-VHS, 2x Composite Video, 1 input and 1 output for each) with a firewire port.
What could be the problem/?
I told my friend to remove the fax modem and tell the expert at the shop to have a look at the video card
all suggestions accepted
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