Recently, my system that has been running stable for 6 months had a funny shutdown procedure where the screen went black and just a cursor was left blinking in the upper left corner. Upon reboot, the system froze on the windows boot screen. When this happens, it restarts on its own and then tries again, but fails. I fortunately had made a complete back-up of all my files not too long ago, so I tried a clean install of XP x64 PRO.
The install works fine, and I can get all drivers installed successfully, (with successful restarts in between), including updating to service pack 2. I leave the Video card drivers for last, and attempt to install the latest drivers for my SLI GeForce 7900GS cards, When the NVidia installwizard launches, the system goes black and restarts with the same black screen as before. Then the system will no-longer boot. Safe mode still works. I tried skipping the installshield and manually installing the drivers, but the problem persists. Anyone have any ideas?
Reinstalling windows for the sixth time including reformatting the drive into NTFS is getting extremely frustrating, especially on a system that was fine just 3 days ago...
Thanks, Tucker
The install works fine, and I can get all drivers installed successfully, (with successful restarts in between), including updating to service pack 2. I leave the Video card drivers for last, and attempt to install the latest drivers for my SLI GeForce 7900GS cards, When the NVidia installwizard launches, the system goes black and restarts with the same black screen as before. Then the system will no-longer boot. Safe mode still works. I tried skipping the installshield and manually installing the drivers, but the problem persists. Anyone have any ideas?
Reinstalling windows for the sixth time including reformatting the drive into NTFS is getting extremely frustrating, especially on a system that was fine just 3 days ago...
Thanks, Tucker