Alrighty, I've got a nifty little problem on my hands... When I start the computer, everything runs fine (BIOS is stable, all drives spin, power is fine) until I get to a screen where I should be able to select between Windows 2000 and Windows XP (since I like both). This is, as you may have guessed, before it boots into Windows (of either kind). However, as of last night, I no longer get this screen, and instead, all I get is a nice black, well, screen, for lack of a better term. So here's my rig to date: (all stock settings)
Link Depot 550w PSU
AMD FX-53
Asus A8N SLI Deluxe
(Dual) Asus EN6800 Ultras
GeIL 4000+ (1 gig in dual channel slots 2 and 4)
Western Digital 120 gig hd (Slave)
Maxtor 80 gig (boot)
Sony 16x DVD-ROM
Don't know what I did to make this happen, the last thing I remember doing was installing the new 75.90 Forceware drivers for my card, however, I'm pretty sure those weren't the problem, because for those of you who have SLI, you know that whenever you install new drivers, you have to restart twice, once to activate the drivers, and a second time when Windows prompts you to "Enable SLI Mode". And the problem didn't occur until the second boot, when you have to restart to enable SLI. Other than that, I was fooling around with some clock settings for the CPU and Memory, and although I realize the potential for disaster in doing so, the motherboard has a nifty feature that will tell you when you've passed the limit on OCing, and makes you downgrade your settings. So I doubt either of those were the true problem, and I tried resetting CMOS... twice, but to no avail. Also I tried booting from my XP CD, but no such luck... So, any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
Link Depot 550w PSU
AMD FX-53
Asus A8N SLI Deluxe
(Dual) Asus EN6800 Ultras
GeIL 4000+ (1 gig in dual channel slots 2 and 4)
Western Digital 120 gig hd (Slave)
Maxtor 80 gig (boot)
Sony 16x DVD-ROM
Don't know what I did to make this happen, the last thing I remember doing was installing the new 75.90 Forceware drivers for my card, however, I'm pretty sure those weren't the problem, because for those of you who have SLI, you know that whenever you install new drivers, you have to restart twice, once to activate the drivers, and a second time when Windows prompts you to "Enable SLI Mode". And the problem didn't occur until the second boot, when you have to restart to enable SLI. Other than that, I was fooling around with some clock settings for the CPU and Memory, and although I realize the potential for disaster in doing so, the motherboard has a nifty feature that will tell you when you've passed the limit on OCing, and makes you downgrade your settings. So I doubt either of those were the true problem, and I tried resetting CMOS... twice, but to no avail. Also I tried booting from my XP CD, but no such luck... So, any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!