OH NOOOOOEES!!

penski · 3 Mar 2007 at 14:05

To think that six years ago, I could fix this in my sleep...

...Now I can't remember how.

Damn brain! It deleted PC fixing info and replaced it with how to cook pancakes or mental images of boobs or something

Right...

Athlon XP1800+ (JIUHB core, stock clocking.

)
MSI motherboard (can't remember what :/)
Geforce 4 MX.
Terratec DMX6-fire
512MB of PC2100.
Er...

Right - once you've pulled yourself back onto your chairs after reading my leet spec list, can you give me a few pointers?

I booted up, got a BSOD, rebooted, switched to my secondary drive in the BIOS, rebooted, let it do a checkdisk, rebooted, switched back to this drive and blammo - here I am.

Already rebooted to see if it would kick itself into shape. No luck.

Cheers, m'dears.

*n

Mikesoft · 3 Mar 2007 at 14:10

Hehe Heya,

Are you reffering to the lack of colour in the picture? To change your colour setting go to Control Panel ---> Display ----> Setting, then up your colour back to 32bit.

penski · 3 Mar 2007 at 14:16

Mikesoft said:
Hehe Heya,

Are you reffering to the lack of colour in the picture? To change your colour setting go to Control Panel ---> Display ----> Setting, then up your colour back to 32bit.

Sorry should have been clearer - it's stuck in safe mode and I can increase neither resolution or colour

*Un

Mekrel · 3 Mar 2007 at 14:22

Tried looking at msconfig in the BOOT.INI tab.

Make sure safe mode box is unchecked?

Take it chkdsk didn't find anything?

Normally unstability comes from RAM giving up the ghost, try some memory testing programs:

Memtest Windows

Not sure if you can get the above to install whilst in safe mode or run, if not then:

Memtest86

Bootable floppy

mcc49 · 3 Mar 2007 at 14:24

you tried uninstalling the nvidia drivers in safe mode and seeing if that lets you back into windows? Something similar happened to me once and thats how I fixed it

alexisonfire · 3 Mar 2007 at 14:27

mcc49 said:
you tried uninstalling the nvidia drivers in safe mode and seeing if that lets you back into windows? Something similar happened to me once and thats how I fixed it

I had this aswell, i had a conflict between monitor driver and gfx card driver, uninstalled gfx card driver to earlier version and it worked.

penski · 3 Mar 2007 at 17:59

mcc49 said:
you tried uninstalling the nvidia drivers in safe mode and seeing if that lets you back into windows? Something similar happened to me once and thats how I fixed it

Updated them.

Wootah

And to think I've worked tech support for HP...And Microsoft!

Okay...the second one doesn't mean much...

I never realised how much I've forgotten...But then again, I've literally never had to use it for nearly two years...

*n