Trouble with PC - booting, or is it?

Ex-RoNiN

Ex-RoNiN

Ex-RoNiN

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Hi,

have a problem with a PC that I'm playing around with. It's a P4 2.8GHz on an Intel D865Perl mobo, 1GB Ram, and a Leadtek A340 (i.e. GeForce FX5200) GFX.

Symptoms are as follows: after Windows installation rebooted PC for the 2nd or 3rd time and it went into the Windows mainscreen, the monitor stayed dark after the Windows load screen (the one with the green progress slider).

Switched monitors, but no effect. Rebooted into safe-mode successfully. Tried to boot back into Windows normally, but again the screen stays dark after the Windows load screen.

I then booted back in in safe mode and installed the latest nForce drivers. Rebooted, but the screen is still dark after the Windows load screen!

Played around with the AGP aperture size, increasing it to 128 and dropping it to 32, but still no luck. Any other ideas on what I could try? I was thinking of tryin to repair the Windows installation with the CD...
 
I think that board has onboard graphics,and is choosing that instead of the agp card.If you disable that in bios & windows,set boot up card to agp hopefully that`ll fix it.My old 7vaxp was like that,i had to use a pci card to change to agp card in bios for it to work.
 
Ok, further update - I changed the graphics card, put in a Leadtek A380 instead. Lo and behold - it worked! For a few seconds anyway...it booted into Windows, then Windows informs me that the display was running at a very low resolution and it offered me to automatically adjust the display settings. I don't know what devil rode me, but I clicked "yes" :o Unsurprisingly, the display went dead again.

I again reinstalled Windows (clean install, wiped HDD beforehand and did a low-level format) with the new GFX...and it didn't work :mad:

So I took the PSU and HDD and the GFX into a different PC with the same CPU and mobo - again, it doesn't work :confused:

I am running out of patience and understanding and options here - GFX card or AGP slot are not broken, as display works fine during boot, and in safe mode. It is not GFX specific, as a different GFX card displays the same symptoms. It is not the monitor, as I have 3 different monitors available and they are all not showing anything. AGP aperture size, tried everything from 16MB to 128MB. BIOS is not overclocked (Ram is at CAS 3 :rolleyes: ) and I intend on resetting it to see if that works.

But honestly, I don't think its hardware related, as the display only goes dead when Windows boots up - and in safe mode there is no trouble, I can even crank the resolution up to 1024!

Any suggestions....PLEASE :(


EDIT: I also tried installing the latest nForce drivers, as well as a DirectX 9 install, AND Intel mobo drivers - all without effect.
 
Interesting... I`m just re-installing windows myself because of similar reasons, I`ll let you know if what I`m trying works or not.
 
Did memory tests, and a surface check of the HDD - no faults found.

BIOS reset isn't actually a reset, it just clears the passwords, according to Intel's website - should I try removing the battery, unplug the PC and wait a few minutes? Would that reset the bios, or completely destroy it?

Seriously, I'm grasping at straws here - anyone?? :o :(
 
i had the same problem.

WOuldnt load after the windows logo thing. Would just stay black.

But when i started in safe mode it worked.

So i decided to repair windows .... But that didnt work.

I couldnt really be botherd to figure out what was wrong so i just installed a fresh copy of windows in folder c:windows1, but with the original windows in c:windows folder.

This worked and it started up after loading from Windows1 folder.

Give that a try
 
Noble-Kebab said:
i had the same problem.

WOuldnt load after the windows logo thing. Would just stay black.

But when i started in safe mode it worked.

So i decided to repair windows .... But that didnt work.

I couldnt really be botherd to figure out what was wrong so i just installed a fresh copy of windows in folder c:windows1, but with the original windows in c:windows folder.

This worked and it started up after loading from Windows1 folder.

Give that a try
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Thanks very much for the suggestion - unfortunately, this did not work either :(
 
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