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Romstar   07-30-2007 at 07:27:33 AM

My 3 year old pc which has worked perfectly up until i sold it and reinstalled windows and here is my issue. The computer runs perfect I install windows xp media center edition, download all the driver updates and what not.... then I restart and it takes 5 minutes to start up which is nothing to complain about but then it just gets to a black screen like its about to show the windows user name login choice and bam just restarts and keeps on doing this. System Specs: amd 2500+ xp, 2x512 mb ddr 333, nvidia nforce 2 mobo, ati radeon 9500 pro, 240 gb hd, 250 watt psu that comes in the shuttle case.


Message edited by Romstar on 07-30-2007 at 07:39:44 AM
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coldmast   07-30-2007 at 08:44:39 PM
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do you have enough power
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you should be OK, I don't know how much stuff you have plugged in though
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HDD? slave it, and install windows to a new disk?
can you get safemode to work?
last known good configuration?

 

I know they're designed for 10 years but check you CMOS battery, you might need a new one?


Message edited by coldmast on 07-30-2007 at 10:49:26 PM
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Romstar   07-30-2007 at 10:43:11 PM
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I figured it out thanks it was a chipset driver that would somehow disable the hard drives ide port so yeah i figured it out thanks.

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coldmast   07-30-2007 at 10:59:35 PM
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darn I was going to say graphic card driver next

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chikit: coldmast you should feel dumb for giving utter crap advice.
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