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« on: Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 23:26:40 » |
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Right. Long story short.
I bought a new pc. Happy. Installed sound card, as adding soundcard drivers the pc crashes. It reboots and goes through post screen then goes blank, but PC remains on. Tried both graphics cards outputs, and 2 different monitors.
I then decided it was something to do with the soundcard, so removed it. Same as before, counts ram etc, then screen goes blank when windows logo should appear.
Here's what has happened. With the large soundcard in the pc a cable was pushed against the graphics card fan and stopped then fan rotating. If this has burned the gpu, would i still get to see the post screen? Does this bypass the gpu?
I only ask because i have done nothing else and it's probably gonna be the mobo or the graphics card. I'm not familiar with these new pci-e cards, so seems stupid that it could be blown yet i still get to see the bios screen thang.
I just hope that it ain't the mobo, which is what my head tells me.
I also don't want to have to spend £30 sending it back to Laandaaaan when i could spend £30 on a new graphics card, and save the hassle.
Oh and my brand new fucking monitor has a dead pixel and it was the last one in stock. Nice.
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #1 on: Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 23:35:43 » |
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have you tried puttin your windows disk back in and booting from that first?
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« Reply #2 on: Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 23:40:35 » |
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If it posts it aint the mobo. Do you hear the normal beep from when it posts?
It aint the graphics, because the GPU is providing your monitor with a signal to show the post screen
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« Reply #3 on: Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 23:41:40 » |
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And I think the drivers made your pc go mental, not a wire that stopped the fan
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Barry Scott
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« Reply #4 on: Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 23:45:20 » |
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Well that's what i hoped, but there is no way i can get any kind of boot. It does still beep, does still count al the ram, recognise processor etc, there is nothing in the mobo apart from the ram and graphics card. If i put an windows disk in, the same happens, it won't give me the press any key to boot message, or react post bios screen.
It's a weird one. All the hardware is brand new.
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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 23:55:30 » |
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Have you tried booting using last known good settings? (hit F8 lots in the post screen)
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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 23:58:01 » |
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« Reply #7 on: Thursday, December 20, 2007, 00:01:56 » |
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Doesn't allow me to get any of those, as i originally wanted to try safemode, because i also upped the graphics resolution by a massive amount. I know how silly it sounds, but all i can do is see the post screen or go into bios. That's it.
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« Reply #8 on: Thursday, December 20, 2007, 00:06:59 » |
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I just remembered. F8 on my new pc is boot order, so couldn't try to get into safe mode. I just checked that MS article, it's possible it's windows thinking about it, i forgot a massive factor when describing the pc. I used nLite to chop XP ISO down to 165mb, from 610mb, i may have seriously corrupted the system!  There was me feeling clever with XP only using 44mb ram when static. I'm a bit of a twat you see. Even so, i should still be able to do a reinstall shouldn't i? And yes, CD is before my primary drive... I think.  Fucking hell, i wish i was sat next to it and could have another fiddle now. Thanks so far, although i feel that there's something fucked, as i'm pretty down with the workings of them. |
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« Reply #9 on: Thursday, December 20, 2007, 00:10:07 » |
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Disks are sata if that makes any difference.
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« Reply #10 on: Thursday, December 20, 2007, 00:16:06 » |
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It sounds like XP is twatted. I'd reinstall it mate.
Like I said mobo wouldn't post if it was fecked and GPU would display nothing. I think it's XP throwing a wobbly.
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« Reply #11 on: Thursday, December 20, 2007, 00:19:33 » |
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Okay, i'll have a go with an fairly untampered xp install tomorrow. Thanks for the help Si Pie.
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« Reply #12 on: Thursday, December 20, 2007, 00:22:37 » |
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this is why i don't like streamlined iso's |
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« Reply #13 on: Thursday, December 20, 2007, 00:35:32 » |
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I'm a greedy cunt when it comes to resources though and i'll do everything i can by editing the arse out the registry, services.msc, removing all animation, cd autorun, disk indexing, IE, power settings sound settings, auto updates, security, netowrking, tcp/ip. god the list gets long.
It would seem i sometimes get a bit carried away though. But this was my record install. 44mb of ram being used when just resting on windows desktop. I may have only saved about 8mb ish over my previous best, but i still made a white sticky mess on my keyboard.
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« Reply #14 on: Thursday, December 20, 2007, 00:38:36 » |
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do you overclock as well? geeeeeeeek |
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