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Re: Need some comupter technical advice
If its a video driver problem don't feel bad, everyone has one at one time or another. They have a nasty habit of leaving traces all over your hard drive that you have to try hard to remove.
Hey chatterbot my friend how about I do quit and just get a mac :wink:
I'll def. do what you said. I really have no other choice. Everytime I try to install a driver even from the manufacturer himself XP stops the installation and says some shit about this installation is not up to XP standards or something to that effect. ARRRRRRRGGHH!!!!.....sorry tension breaker.
Do this:
1. Download DriverCleaner3 from Driver Heaven.
2. Completly uninstall the video driver in question and reboot.
3. Boot into safe mode by pushing F8 at startup.
4. Cancel anything that pops up when you get to Windows.
5. Pull up you Device Manager (Windows key + Pause\Break) and uninstall (right-click, uninstall) what is showing under Video\Display devices.
6. Fire up Driver Cleaner and run CabCleaner.
7. After thats done pick the filter for your type of driver and clean, clean, clean.
8. Reboot.
9. Install the newest driver available.
10. Rock out.
Hope this helps.
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Re: Need some comupter technical advice
OK, dude... it doesn?t help you to give up..
Here?s what you do now:
- Get the damn setup-diskettes (WinXP SP1) from microsoft.com
- Alternatively, if you do not have a 3,5``-drive, make that
bootable CD somebody mentioned before
- Update the latest BIOS
- Boot from Diskette (or the alternative)
- re-partition the harddisc by deleting all partitions
in the corresponding setup-step
- Create the new partition(s)
- Windows will format the install-partition now
after that, simply reboot with your original WinXP-cd
and install Windows normally, select the partition you
generated formerly.
-> You will be fine...!
Hope it works...! Hey chatterbot my friend how about I do quit and just get a mac :wink:
I'll def. do what you said. I really have no other choice. Everytime I try to install a driver even from the manufacturer himself XP stops the installation and says some shit about this installation is not up to XP standards or something to that effect. ARRRRRRRGGHH!!!!.....sorry tension breaker.Leave a comment:
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Re: Need some comupter technical advice
OK, dude... it doesn?t help you to give up..
Here?s what you do now:
- Get the damn setup-diskettes (WinXP SP1) from microsoft.com
- Alternatively, if you do not have a 3,5``-drive, make that
bootable CD somebody mentioned before
- Update the latest BIOS
- Boot from Diskette (or the alternative)
- re-partition the harddisc by deleting all partitions
in the corresponding setup-step
- Create the new partition(s)
- Windows will format the install-partition now
after that, simply reboot with your original WinXP-cd
and install Windows normally, select the partition you
generated formerly.
-> You will be fine...!
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Re: Need some comupter technical advice
All right here's the deal I tried everything you guys said to do. My somewhat conclusion is that I noticed that it would tell me outright it was a graphics driver problem. So I unistalled the all the Nvidia drivers, then it became somewhat vague by saying it was still a driver issue. I give up.
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Re: Need some comupter technical advice
if you do a clean re-install of Windows XP, slipstream SP2 and make it a bootable CD before you do...it seems a lot of problems come from installing/uninstalling SP1, then putting on SP2, plus if you have a bunch of other stuff installed, there's probably some version conflicts with many a file.
Did that with mine on a fresh re-install, and haven't had any serious problems with it at all...plus it saves the task of 2 separate installations...
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Re: Need some comupter technical advice
Dammit. And here I thought I was in for an anatomy lesson!Leave a comment:
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but it's written there that you should install sevice pack 1 or higher and that's it. I have win2k and i had to EnableBigLba in registry. In your case it should be easier.Leave a comment:
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your hard disc if it's 160 should be 150, not 130, it's the problem of 48bit, the site i've written before is about this shit, just read it and you will solve
160/1024^3*1000^3=149,0116119 that is the size you should get from you driveLeave a comment:
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Re: Need some comupter technical advice
The reason is that back in the late eighties\early ninties when hard drives were maybe 1 gig the drive manufactuers measured it as 1000MB. A Gigabyte is actually 1,073,741,824 bytes or 1024MB. This wasn't a big deal when drives were that small, but as they got bigger the ~24MB that was getting shaved off started adding up. Why they don't just tell you the true size instead of making you think you new drive is fucked I will never understand.
As for your SP2 troubles...uninstall it. I tried it and it messed up some many things I almost had to reformat. I got away with doing a repair but it was a close one.
Oh, and what Civic said about your restarting problem is exactly correct. Turn that shit off.Leave a comment:
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