hey everyone...
i've run into a problem and im not sure how to fix it.
basically i was playing left for dead yesterday and my pc locked up. I restarted it as i couldnt exit the game. on restarting the PC kept loading windows XP and the blue bar kept going then just stopped. after that nothing happened. ive restarted countless times to try and get past this and it would just stay there or black screen.
from here, i formatted my pc to try to resolve it. that worked fine and i was able to install my motherboard drivers etc etc fine. as i install ATI drivers and reboot it appears to go horribly wrong again. i then need to roll back to the last known good config to get back into windows.
it kinda sucks without graphics drivers and i cant do anything much.
has anyone else experienced this problem? or know why it would be happening? i do recall installing service pack 3 before this happened, would this happen to change my bios or something on the hard drive which a format would not correct?
at the moment im trying a chkdsk to see if there are any problems, however the computer appears to be fine until the graphics drivers are installed!
i have an asus P5Q PRO motherboard and an ATI 4870x2 graphics card.
any help would be much appreciated
thanks, mo
i've run into a problem and im not sure how to fix it.
basically i was playing left for dead yesterday and my pc locked up. I restarted it as i couldnt exit the game. on restarting the PC kept loading windows XP and the blue bar kept going then just stopped. after that nothing happened. ive restarted countless times to try and get past this and it would just stay there or black screen.
from here, i formatted my pc to try to resolve it. that worked fine and i was able to install my motherboard drivers etc etc fine. as i install ATI drivers and reboot it appears to go horribly wrong again. i then need to roll back to the last known good config to get back into windows.
it kinda sucks without graphics drivers and i cant do anything much.
has anyone else experienced this problem? or know why it would be happening? i do recall installing service pack 3 before this happened, would this happen to change my bios or something on the hard drive which a format would not correct?
at the moment im trying a chkdsk to see if there are any problems, however the computer appears to be fine until the graphics drivers are installed!
i have an asus P5Q PRO motherboard and an ATI 4870x2 graphics card.
any help would be much appreciated
thanks, mo
