MSI K7n420Pro/nForce problems

[Archee]

hi

I recently bought a brand spanking new computer with the following specs:

256mb PC2100 DDR RAM
Athlon XP 1900+
MSI k7n420pro mobo (with nVidia nforce gpu onboard)
Maxtor Diamond Pro 60gb hdd
lg 16x dvd drive
nec cd-rw drive
windows me


anyway, having booted it up and attempted to install windows, it wouldn't let me, or rather it started and then crashed and this process repeated when I retryed installing windows.

To make a long story short, I put the new hd into my existing computer, installed windows onto it and then installed the nForce drivers onto it.

I then put the new hd into the new computer and it booted into windows fine at first, but then crashed. windows said that my vga driver is not installed properly. Having tried many different versions of drivers on the computer, none of them work windows just keeps on crashing

I've tried lots of different bios scenarios (video cache enabled/disabled etc), I've tried removing all cards off the mobo but it just doesnt work!!!!!

I've also read on the internet that the msi motherboard has a problem with pci writes due to the nforce chip and this is fixable by a bios update. I've installed the latest bios (v2.7) and there is no change, the video just doesnt want to work. Can anyone please please please help me?


Please?



Archee
archee@Talk21.com

 

[~YuckFou~]

[dumb answer]Call the peeps who sold it to you?[/dumb answer]

 

[Insane]

whats the brand of ram there, im making the presumption that its "generic brand" since no name was made... it might be better going for a known name brand (crucial, corsair, kingston, etc) for some unexplained reason perhaps generic brand causes data corruption or its not made of high quality components.

To make a long story short, I put the new hd into my existing computer, installed windows onto it and then installed the nForce drivers onto it.

and then...

put the new hd into the new computer and it booted into windows fine at first, but then crashed,windows said that my vga driver is not installed properly

Of course not, when you installed the hard drive in your old machine and setup windows, it took the hardware attached to the machine as its main components, it didnt know it was going into the Nforce motherboard, so the VGA driver isn't correct.. it might still believe its either a VGA Adaptor, or unlikely enough your previous machines card.

go into add-remove programs and uninstall the Nforce drivers, then reboot and re-install them after you boot up.

you could even try setting the bios to fail-safe defaults and do a reinstall of windows then, see if it crashes with fail-safe and decent memory in.

if it still messes up, you could always return it to the retailer / online shop and request a full refund.