How do you know that when your vidcard fried it didn't cause other damage
to your machine as well?


"ncontorno" <ncontorno@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:72EDCC44-04FA-4F7C-958F-D9967B1468B3@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> 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]