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Emergency Hardware help.

Since last night, my screen is behaving weirdly. When I off my monitor (not my comp) and after some time (a few hours) and on it again, the screen is black. This morning, I got a blue screen. So I suspect it's my graphics card problem. I switched back to my onboard graphics and everything works. Bad thing is that the onboard graphics sucks big time and as I'm doing graphics work, the flickering when under high screen resolution kills me. So I thought I go get a new card but my old card is pretty damn obsolete, AGP 4x type. So I guess I spend a bit more getting a new set of hardware.

Here's what I got.

Mobo: Asus P5VD2-X
CPU: Intel Celeron D 2.66GHz
RAM: Kingston DDR2 1GB.
Graphics Card: Eagle GeForce 7100GS PCI-Express

Didn't change my IDE HDDs because all my work files are inside.

Installed everything and set up everything nicely through the BIOS. All the drives and hardware are detected. Double checked evrything against the mobo manual. I then tried to boot up WinXP. Immediately I leave the BIOS, it blue screened. There's no specific error message in the blue screen. It's just like 3/4 screen long, unlike the usual BSOD where you get some error code and some IRQ not less or equal mesage.

Can someone tell what is wrong actually? If it's a blue screen, it usually means a hardware or driver conflict right? I'm not sure if it's my HDDs but they were working fine in the old setup. Could it be the new hardware I bought? If so then how the hell people can build a new system with those?

I'm using Windows XP SP2. 500W PSU.

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Ok I have some questions. Is this a fresh install of Windows XP or are you booting up from the old disk where you have just replaced drivers. Secondly is your memory in a 2x512mb configuration or is it just a 1gb stick. I think your problem is something on your hard drive or faulty ram. If its 2x 512, take 1 of the sticks out and boot into windows, if it BSOD's again try the other stick on its own. If you have 2x512mb sticks of course. If you have 1gb stick try replace it or borrow a friends. If that doesn't fix the problem I suggest you take all the data you need off your HD and do a fresh install of windows.

Last edited by chris5050, March 7th, 2007 01:54 AM (Edited 1 times)

wait you just stuck your old drive into a completely new system and tried to boot off the old install? ofcourse its going to bluescreen.

Get the data you _need_ off your old drive using another computer, then wipe the drive and do a fresh XP install. Unless you have hardware profiles set up in xp (which i doubt), it doesn't particularly like being moved around between different hardware configs

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angelessme, antagonising neverside members, staff and administration since 2001.

Hey guys thanks for the help. I managed to get everything working by doing a repair of win xp.
It's because I tried to run the old installation on a new board and new chipset with old drivers. XD

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