Will not boot, please help

remember a time back, I said that my power supply fried, and since replaced it. now it gets to the windows xp load screen... finishes it... then the screen turns white and locks up... has anyone else had these problems (and fixed them).

I put in a new video card while i was waiting for the power supply. Could this be it?

please help?

 

Is there any way to find out... other then disassembling the whole thing?

Hopefully yes, it gets to BIOS so doesn’t that mean that the MB is ok? And since the upper RAM is used for BIOS, then it can't be that (isn’t that right?). Does anyone have any thoughts?

Thank you,
Jason

 

Sounds like this is a similar problem to what I had. You can see my thread "Recovery Console won't see partition ". It could be that WinXP is not able to load a driver on startup.

1. Try booting in safe mode and see how what device drivers (sys files) load before the boot crashes.

2. Try booting into the recovery console using your windows xp cd. You can do this by specifying to boot from CD by pressing F8 at startup or specifically in you bios. The recovery console gives you a bunch of tools (type "help" to see them). "listsvc" lists your installed services and Microsoft help suggests removing them until you can boot.

Hope this helps.

 

I wonder if it is trying to use the old video drivers for the new card? If you can get to safe mode go to Display and change the video adapter to standard (PCI) graphics adapter. Remove anything related to video in Add/Remove programs. Remove the old video adapter in Device Manager.

If you can, run the new card's driver installation program in safe mode.

Matt

 

Agree with everything mattman has to say except installing new video drivers from Safe mode. Some adapters just don't like that.

You may also want to download, install and run RegCleaner to make sure you get rid of all remaining vestiges of your old video drivers out of that machine before installing new drivers.

 

That is good to know. I've had success with that method so far, but I will be wary in future.

Matt

 

I figured it out, it was user stupidity , I plugged the hard drive into the wrong port on the mobo. My computer is actually working now.. Many thanks go out to everyone who tried to help me.

Thank you,
Jason