Well, what a total arrrrse week. Had a perfectly happy system with a new Sapphire HD4870 running Vista with the rest of the sig below.
Up untill I decided I would flash the Bios Seemed to be fine up till re installed CCC, then when ever it would startup would end up with BSOD, this would happen even if CPUz or ATI toool was started. Then I was unable to uninstall CCC correctly. All sorts of mares going. All related to the flashing of the GPU, so tried to re-flash to old bios and, ouch. Well, the long and short is the card is bricked, had to buy a HD2400 to replace and try and re-flash it, but nothing. Dead, bugger And OS being a pain.
Went for a reinstall of Vista, only to find I couldn't re activate it, OEM version, so no "my motherboard has died" can you please activate it for was going to work.
Well, after a week of cursing and, kicking the dogs around the house, not really, were back with good old Xp and the proud father of a powercooler 1gb 4870 and we are very happy. Even if £200 out of pocket. Now I'm getting kicked around the house by the wife
And what have we learn't, well, if it aint broke, don't fix it, or ****** it up in my case.
And I was beginning to like Vista
No swearing
Up untill I decided I would flash the Bios Seemed to be fine up till re installed CCC, then when ever it would startup would end up with BSOD, this would happen even if CPUz or ATI toool was started. Then I was unable to uninstall CCC correctly. All sorts of mares going. All related to the flashing of the GPU, so tried to re-flash to old bios and, ouch. Well, the long and short is the card is bricked, had to buy a HD2400 to replace and try and re-flash it, but nothing. Dead, bugger And OS being a pain.
Went for a reinstall of Vista, only to find I couldn't re activate it, OEM version, so no "my motherboard has died" can you please activate it for was going to work.
Well, after a week of cursing and, kicking the dogs around the house, not really, were back with good old Xp and the proud father of a powercooler 1gb 4870 and we are very happy. Even if £200 out of pocket. Now I'm getting kicked around the house by the wife
And what have we learn't, well, if it aint broke, don't fix it, or ****** it up in my case.
And I was beginning to like Vista
No swearing