New mobo, new vid card (PCI Express - old vid card/mobo was AGP)
Fortunately, I have a crappy spare AGP vid card lying around I could use, but
I only want to reinstall as a last resort.

"NoStop" wrote:
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> dzomlija wrote:
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> >
> > ncontorno;571675 Wrote:[color=darkred]
> >> So I had Vista Ultimate 32-bit installed and it worked fine on my
> >> home-built
> >> PC. My vid card got fried and I decided to do some other hardware
> >> upgrades
> >> with it. After putting it all together, Vista won't boot at all even
> >> into
> >> safe mode. Each time I never get to the loading bar and it restarts. No
> >> error message, just the message that a recent hardware or software
> >> change
> >> prevented Windows from loading. Startup repair fails and system restore
> >> doesn't do anything.
> >>
> >> I've tried unplugging everything but the essentials, tweaking settings
> >> in
> >> the BIOS, disabling firewire/USB, moving around the RAM and cards,
> >> memtest
> >> and chkdsk. Nothing. I really don't want to have to reinstall Vista. I
> >> was
> >> just getting used to it!
> >>
> >> Here's the specs:
> >>
> >> GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 Mobo
> >> 500 Watt Ultra PSU
> >> AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6 gHz
> >> EVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT
> >> CORSAIR 2 x 1GB DDR2 SDRAM
> >> 80GB Maxtor (PATA)
> >> 250GB WD Caviar (PATA)
> >> LG DVD Burner (SATA)
> >> No-name DVD Burner (SATA)
> >> Floppy (why?)
> >> PCI modem (why?)
> >> 4-port USB PCI card
> >>
> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> >>
> >> Nick[/color]
> >
> > I'm guessing that part of your upgrades was changing the mothboard,
> > right?[/color]
>
> He didn't say so, so why are you guessing this is the case?
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> > What you should do is put your new scren card into the old
> > motherboard, and get that working again (if possible).[/color]
>
> Don't know what a scren card is? Do you mean video card? The one he already
> stated had "fried"? How do you suggest he unfry it, you Wintard?
>
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> > Backup all
> > essential data, then re-load Windows on the new hardware.
> >
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> The Windoze way.
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
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> [url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=bzt4wDiVY9E[/url]
>
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> [url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=-kql8cWqiv8[/url]
>
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> [url]http://www.binsa.org/[/url]
>
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