Registry problems/GFX card trouble in XP

[Cap'n Sissyfoo]

Hi,

I am having some problems with a new GFX card that I am trying to reinstall. Basically, I installed it, had mucho problems with it and had to take it out and reinstall my old one whilst I went looking for some techy help.

Anyhoo, cutting a long story short, I have put the new card back in the system and the computer crashes before windows can start and resets itself. I put the old card back in and found that the system was having some sort of issue with the ATI drivers. I thought that I had uninstalled them but apparently not. I went to the device manager and tried to get rid of them but the bugger of a computer wouldn't let me delete them and came up with an error message saying that the entries in the registry for the drivers were corrupt or incomplete.

Is there anything I can do about this? I have tried reinstalling the latest drivers etc but everything I have tried just ends up with the same crashes. Getting rather annoyed now. :/

Cheers.

 

[mib666]

Post your system specs and i'll take a look for you.

 

[Cap'n Sissyfoo]

Cheers,

K7VZA Mobo
1.3 Ghz Athlon
640mb Ram
Win XP Pro
128mb Ati Radeon (problem card)
32mb Geforce 2MMX (old card)

 

[mib666]

This could well be a power supply issue, even if it says 300W on the tin its still probably a bag of poo, especially if it was bundled with that motherboard K7VZA (Sorry but its a known lemon). Buy a minimum 400 watt PSU which is AMD/Intel approved and this SHOULD fix the booting problems. As with the registry problems im afraid that switching to ATI from Nvidia is a nightmare with the registry, apart from searching and deleting anything related to Nvidia/ATI I'm afraid a fresh install of windows is the safest option. Its always best to backup the registry before you start messing about with different hardware.

 

[darbey]

Think mib is right tbh , ive had very similar problems and suspect it was power related when i changed from gf2 to GF4 ti 4800 with a 300w psu so ive just received my new 550 psu this morning. Let u know how it works out when ive changed it.

 

[sieben_dapoet]

just a thought but u could try loading up in safe mode and removing driver that way, then try reinstalling.

power issues as mentioned was a good point as well though, its an issue which seems to be coming more common these days

 

[Jebelious]

i had problems with my geforce card on my old system, may be something similar, download the latest drivers/dets etc go into safe mode and install them there

try that, and yeah check your psu but if that was the problem then it wouldnt boot up at all i think

 

[darzil]

Anytime you're changing graphics cards, best way I've found is :

1. Switch to use Standard VGA Graphics drivers, don't reboot, but just shut down PC.
2. Remove old Card, and put in new.
3. Should boot up and find the new card, and prompt for drivers. Follow normal instructions.

Without step 1, step 3 is often invisible, and thus much harder !

 

[Cap'n Sissyfoo]

Cool! Thanks for the help guys! I will buy myself a new PSU this very afternoon!

Don't tell Apathy though or I am gonna get a whole day of 'I told ya so's!! :s

~excited~