For gooness sake!

Buchanan0204 · 15 Jan 2012 at 18:56

I need a hand lads!

I have a system which I had an HD3870 installed in. I took it out to use the onboard graphics as it has HDMI out and I wanted to connect it to the TV.

Anyway. It wont boot. This is of course due to a driver issue with the card.

It POSTS fine and all is well until the Windows animation which it then restarts afterwards.

I've tried:

Reset CMOS
Safe mode
Last known good configuration
Low resolution 640x480 mode
attempted a startup repair using windows 7 console thingy

There is surely a way of getting this to work without a reinstall of Windows?... surely to god!

I suppose I could connect the HD3870 back into it and then install the graphics for the onboard? Then remove the card again? What do you think?

Simpler way?

darael · 15 Jan 2012 at 19:00

Put the 3870 back in, uninstall the drivers for it then try booting into Windows - then install the drivers.

masscrazy · 15 Jan 2012 at 19:01

Safe mode....

beejjacobs · 15 Jan 2012 at 19:01

Sounds like a different issue to me, even if the drivers weren't working properly surely Windows would still boot? e.g. before you install drivers on windows it still works. Unless you need to delete the old drivers, but I'd be surprised if you had to before it would work at all. Do you need to enable on board GPU in the BIOS?

Buchanan0204 · 15 Jan 2012 at 19:08

beejjacobs said:
Sounds like a different issue to me, even if the drivers weren't working properly surely Windows would still boot? e.g. before you install drivers on windows it still works. Unless you need to delete the old drivers, but I'd be surprised if you had to before it would work at all. Do you need to enable on board GPU in the BIOS?

That's what I thought as well.

Looks like I'll need to uninstall the ATI drivers first. Onboard GPU kicks in automatically if no external card is detected. This is definitely the case as the POST screen appears.

beejjacobs · 15 Jan 2012 at 19:10

Buchanan0204 said:
That's what I thought as well.

Looks like I'll need to uninstall the ATI drivers first. Onboard GPU kicks in automatically if no external card is detected. This is definitely the case as the POST screen appears.

Yeah only thing I can think of is uninstalling the drivers like you say. You seem to have tried most things!

jpod · 15 Jan 2012 at 19:43

Is is possible that the on board graphics need turning on in the bios, I seem to remember many happy hours trying to get something to work and that was the issue!

beejjacobs · 15 Jan 2012 at 19:47

beejjacobs said:
Sounds like a different issue to me, even if the drivers weren't working properly surely Windows would still boot? e.g. before you install drivers on windows it still works. Unless you need to delete the old drivers, but I'd be surprised if you had to before it would work at all. Do you need to enable on board GPU in the BIOS?

Buchanan0204 said:
That's what I thought as well.

Looks like I'll need to uninstall the ATI drivers first. Onboard GPU kicks in automatically if no external card is detected. This is definitely the case as the POST screen appears.

Buchanan0204 · 16 Jan 2012 at 16:21

Ended up having to put the card back in. Download the drivers for the Intel board. Remove card and it was fine. Very strange. Never seen a board that doesn't want to boot without drivers before. Even in low res.

Ah well!

beejjacobs · 16 Jan 2012 at 16:28

Yeah that is odd. Windows can be strange sometimes. Glad it's working anyway!