video card help!! (1 Viewer)

[IP_freely]

hey there can some body help me out here
ok heres my problem

basically today i got a new video card installed, an for some reason now my pc wont load properly ie it wont load to the desktop, basically what happens is that the screen turns black after my screen finishes showing Windows Xp
(hope im making sense) for eg my mouse will show but my screen is black

but b4 this happened my pc wouldnt even load ie when u press the button to turn on it makes all these beeping sounds and my screen wouldnt turn on ( i got that fixed coz my video was old) an now it loads properly but now im stuck wif another dilemma the paragraph above


an im currently using my old pc till i get this problem fixed

ne help plz?

 

[MedNez]

Take the video card back out, and see if Windows boots normally (albeit in 16 colours probably). If it does, then either the card was not installed properly, or is defective.

 

[equiski]

This is most likely a problem with your video drivers. Start your computer in safe or VGA mode by tapping the F8 button while it boots. Now go to the Device Manager then "Display Adaptors". Right click your video card and click uninstall. Allow the computer to restart and try reinstalling your drivers on the boot. If this doesn't work, you may need to use that application which removes all traces of previous drivers.

I had this problem not long ago. At first the computer would randomely restart and it eventually progressed so that the computer restarted on boot up. This all happened after I upgraded from my MX440 to a FX5200 while only installing the new drivers over the old. So the lesson of the day is, uninstall your existing drivers BEFORE you replace your hardware .

 

[Templar]

This all happened after I upgraded from my MX440 to a FX5200 while only installing the new drivers over the old. So the lesson of the day is, uninstall your existing drivers BEFORE you replace your hardware .

All current NVidia GPUs use the same driver, so if you have something new it shouldn't matter (same with ATI)

 

[equiski]

Yeh, i know that, but I downloaded and installed the newest drivers at the time of upgrading the card. This was without uninstalling the old drivers; something that is known for causing problems occusaionally. So regardless, removing the installed drivers and starting over may still IP... we can hope.

It would be easier to find what the problem if you (when in safe mode) set windows to display a blue screen of death instead of automatically rebooting. This can be found by right clicking My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Start up and recovery settings > Uncheck "automatically restart". Next time the p[rblem occurs write down what the orror message says and try googling it (leaving out all the long digit strings).

 

[MedNez]

This was without uninstalling the old drivers; something that is known for causing problems occusaionally.

Indeed. Been there, done that. Installed drivers over old ones on my older computer some time ago (TNT2), decided it would reboot into 16 colours @ 640x480. That was fun. However nice to see both ATI and nVidia have picked up their game with this issue.

IP_freely: I meant to mention this to you this morning, did you install the card yourself? Or was it installed by a store/friend ? If it was installed by a computer store, you should be able to take it back and show them that it now doesn't work.

 

[IP_freely]

problem i cant even get into the desktop, it just loads normally and when the desktop is meant to show the screen is all black

Mednez - i got it installed from a store, im going back there today

 

[blackbunny]

i had nearly the same problem as u did.

i want to know is u r pc shit and vid card 1337. caz if u have like 1 gig 512 sdram and u have a 9600 xt it will run shit and cause u all these little gay poblems. so u need to upgrade u r pc to 2 gigs or greated good mobo 512 ddr.... problem solved.

when i had shit specs and a 1337 vid card my pc could not get past the boot screen ..... got new pc done works fine

 

[equiski]

i had nearly the same problem as u did.

i want to know is u r pc shit and vid card 1337. caz if u have like 1 gig 512 sdram and u have a 9600 xt it will run shit and cause u all these little gay poblems. so u need to upgrade u r pc to 2 gigs or greated good mobo 512 ddr.... problem solved.

when i had shit specs and a 1337 vid card my pc could not get past the boot screen ..... got new pc done works fine

Thanks for your input.