nTune has ****** up my brother's computer :( (He's in Bermuda)

Rameses

Rameses

Rameses

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Hey Guys,

Strange one this. Brother was complaining that the system was 'getting on a bit' and his FPS in various games had dropped some...

I said to do the following, DriverSweeper - New Nvidia - Defrag.

He has, or rather had when he asked me to Remote over and have a look at the settings in Nvidia's Panel.

Well, see, I builth this PC before sending it over to Bermuda :p and consists of an AMD3200, Nvidia Mobo (Cant remember which), 6800GT.

I forgot that it had this Nvidia Mobo, and in the settings it displayed nTune (Which I also told him to install so he could OC' the GFX).

Within nTune was a stress test, to determin the best OC not only for the GFX but Memory & CPU.

Safe to say, its ****** up.

It DID boot into Windows, but my brother had a blank screen (Sometines a fussy white/black lines at the top???). After a few restarts it stopped altogether.

Says System32 is missing, which I've had before. I told him to select Default Settings in the bios to revert any OC' the software might have done.

But all have failed. He can't even get into Safe Mode now? And this guy has his new born baby pictures on the hard drive :o:o:o

Any suggestions, help will be much appricated.

Cheers.
 
That is the one I suggested last night, but then asked him instead to do Default Settings in Bios.

The problem is, getting him to find it :p
 
Send him an external caddy... examine that disk in another machine. It sound like the stress testing the nTune does pushed it over the edge and it corrupted the windows install.

He needs to back up the drive - as that is more important than having a working machine for those photos.

Swap in a new drive and install windows .. should be pain free. Don't run nTune again.
 
IIRC ntune will not alter BIOS settings, a reboot should clear any settings it makes (for goodness sake uninstall it though!) I think the issue is with damaged hardware or corrupt hard drive. He might be able to fix it with the windows cd or a reinstall might be needed.
 
Well to be honest, he has been needing a new HDD for a good while, but they are mightly expensive over there (Silly prices).

Sounds like a new HDD and Perhaps Vista too, and then drag/drop all his photos from the old drive?

I have already rang him though to ask if he can use an XP disc to repair...

Will wait for him to call back and we'll see :o:o:o:o:o

TBH I thought nTune looked good, and since Nvidia made it...I thought 'what the hell' lets try this....

Cheers Guys.
 
my m8 used ntune and it/he ballsed up his comp just like how you described he googled ntune problems and it doesn't seem to be isolated in the end he had to pay a guy to fix it,

i will speak with him in the morning to see what the guys did
 
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