Heres The Deal

[bigdawgfoxx]

Ok...When I turn on her Dell 2400, with onboard graphics...the windows XP home screen comes on..and shows the loading bar thing at the bottom. Once that screen goes away, NOTHING else...I can hear windows load up like the little music it plays ya know?! So its loading up, but after the windows XP screen, the monitor is just black.

I tried putting in a new Video card, but the computer wouldnt run off of it..I looked in setup options and told the video signal to be auto and all..wouldnt work.

Any help appreciated!

[2nd gen noob]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (bigdawgfoxx)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>I consider myself to be very good with hardware (not to bragg at all)[/b]

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Obviously not good enough, kiddo ;)

[bigdawgfoxx]

since I see you posting the fix :unsure:

[Xilo]

If your board has on board graphics, you need to disable it in the BIOS if you want to use a better graphic card.

[tesco]

probably a driver problem. as the computer starts up, just before the windows xp screen, tap f8 a few times till the safemode and stuff options come up. then select vga mode. if it starts up, you can then reinstall teh drivers.

[bigdawgfoxx]

Yes im thinking drivers also

Whats funny is this girl sprays like perfume stuff in her room sometime...and its in her computer...and now my brothers room smells like perfume from it circulating..and when i took the side off it smelled good haha

[bigdawgfoxx]

I tried using VGA Mode, but I get this error.

<Windows root>&#092;system32&#092;ntoskrnl.exe

[2nd gen noob]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@11 May 2004 - 23:32
since I see you posting the fix :unsure:
I never posted a fix, but I never claimed I was "very good with hardware" either ;)

[manker]

bigdawg, google is your friend (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%3CWindows+root%3E%5Csystem32%5Cntoskrnl.exe&btnG=Google+Search)

in my experience googling for the exact error brings up a fix 95% of the time.

manker

[bigdawgfoxx]

Alright, Ill try some of that stuff...

Would a windows xp pro cd work with windows xp home recovery?

[tesco]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@11 May 2004 - 19:23
Alright, Ill try some of that stuff...

Would a windows xp pro cd work with windows xp home recovery?

edit: oops, u edited before i got to quote it. no pro disc wont work for home.

[bigdawgfoxx]

Shit forgot my XP cd is loaned to a friend...ill get it back tomm.

[atiVidia]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@11 May 2004 - 19:32
Shit forgot my XP cd is loaned to a friend...ill get it back tomm.
doing either on the other will constitute a *major* f__k up of your system.


in other words: get a copy of home edition :)

[bigdawgfoxx]

Well I dont know anyone that has one lol...I guess ill just reformatt it.

How would it fuck it up so bad...I would figure since home and pro are almost the same that the files would be almost the same also.

[Lamsey]

Only time I&#39;ve seen this before is when the monitor refresh rate is set to a setting it can&#39;t display. If that&#39;s the case then you can sort it by booting into safe mode and changing the refresh rate to a safe setting (in the Advanced Settings bit of Display Properties).
Reboot and Robert is your mother&#39;s brother.

[atiVidia]

Originally posted by Lamsey@11 May 2004 - 19:54
Only time I&#39;ve seen this before is when the monitor refresh rate is set to a setting it can&#39;t display. If that&#39;s the case then you can sort it by booting into safe mode and changing the refresh rate to a safe setting (in the Advanced Settings bit of Display Properties).
Reboot and Robert is your mother&#39;s brother.
he tried that <_<

reformat. afterwards, turn on ICF if u dont have xp w/sp1. have ICF on long enough to go and grab SP1 off the net.

[2nd gen noob]

Originally posted by atiVidia@12 May 2004 - 01:07
he tried that <_<
Nope...he tried VGA mode <_<

:lol:

[tesco]

Originally posted by 2nd gen noob+11 May 2004 - 20:19--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (2nd gen noob @ 11 May 2004 - 20:19)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-atiVidia@12 May 2004 - 01:07
he tried that <_<
Nope...he tried VGA mode <_<

:lol: [/b][/quote]
does the same thing as safemode would have done anyway <_<

:lol:

[2nd gen noob]

Originally posted by ROSSCO_2004+12 May 2004 - 01:22--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (ROSSCO_2004 @ 12 May 2004 - 01:22)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by 2nd gen noob@11 May 2004 - 20:19
<!--QuoteBegin-atiVidia@12 May 2004 - 01:07
he tried that <_<
Nope...he tried VGA mode <_<

:lol:
does the same thing as safemode would have done anyway <_<

:lol: [/b][/quote]
It&#39;s important to note that VGA mode isn&#39;t the same as Safe mode though <_<

:lol:

[bigdawgfoxx]

Tried both..

Gona reformat it when I get my cds tommorow.