So I finally upgraded my computer, and I've been having nothing but trouble...
I bought a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and an Athlon 64 x2 3800+ that I've been saving up for a while now (I went with AGP graphics because i don't do a lot of gaming, mostly use it for video editing and compression and such, and I diodn't want to upgrade to a new grahpics card at the moment).
At first, I decided to try just rebooting Windows to see if it would work, but I wasn't surprised to see that it gave me a blue screen. I haven't heard good stories of such massive upgrades in general, and I wanted a fresh install of XP anyway.
So I started trying to install XP, but kept getting blue screens during the install too. Finally, I thought to test the memory, and memtest86 was giving all sorts of problems with my gig of pc2700 memory.So i checked the BIOS and sure enough it had selected some messed-up defaults like 3-6-6-17 that it didn't like. I reset it to the default 2.5-3-3-6 and memtest86 ran for hours without problems.
So, problem solved I think, and I go back to reinstalling Windows XP which now installs up through the point where it needs to reboot and then the install is supposed to continue in the 640x480 graphics mode where you select time and date settings and such. But it never gets there for me. When it boots, the screen just goes black when windows should be starting (it doesn't even show the "Windows XP Professional" screen with the sliding bar showing progress. It's just completely black.I also tried installing x64 bit since I just bought a copy of that frmo my school, and the same thing happens.
Now the weird part is, I still have the old copy of xp pro sitting on another hard drive, so I decided to try booting that now that the memory problems were fixed, and sure enough it boots up no problem (detecting a lot of new hardware, of course) and the video output is fine.
So what I don't understand is, why will a fresh install of XP not show me any video? What am i missing? I've heard of people having problems with no video after the startup screen, but I can't even get the startup screen to show up, I only get black. If I reboot it, it shows me the "Windows did not start successfully" screen and I've tried Safe Mode and VGA Mode and everything else I could think of any none of them show anything at all after I press enter, just a black screen,
I almost bought a new video card to test out, but I'm glad I didn't since its apparently not that as my old install of XP still seems to work. unfortunately, I really want to do a fresh install since this one is three years old.
Any ideas???
Thanks for your help.
I bought a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum and an Athlon 64 x2 3800+ that I've been saving up for a while now (I went with AGP graphics because i don't do a lot of gaming, mostly use it for video editing and compression and such, and I diodn't want to upgrade to a new grahpics card at the moment).
At first, I decided to try just rebooting Windows to see if it would work, but I wasn't surprised to see that it gave me a blue screen. I haven't heard good stories of such massive upgrades in general, and I wanted a fresh install of XP anyway.
So I started trying to install XP, but kept getting blue screens during the install too. Finally, I thought to test the memory, and memtest86 was giving all sorts of problems with my gig of pc2700 memory.So i checked the BIOS and sure enough it had selected some messed-up defaults like 3-6-6-17 that it didn't like. I reset it to the default 2.5-3-3-6 and memtest86 ran for hours without problems.
So, problem solved I think, and I go back to reinstalling Windows XP which now installs up through the point where it needs to reboot and then the install is supposed to continue in the 640x480 graphics mode where you select time and date settings and such. But it never gets there for me. When it boots, the screen just goes black when windows should be starting (it doesn't even show the "Windows XP Professional" screen with the sliding bar showing progress. It's just completely black.I also tried installing x64 bit since I just bought a copy of that frmo my school, and the same thing happens.
Now the weird part is, I still have the old copy of xp pro sitting on another hard drive, so I decided to try booting that now that the memory problems were fixed, and sure enough it boots up no problem (detecting a lot of new hardware, of course) and the video output is fine.
So what I don't understand is, why will a fresh install of XP not show me any video? What am i missing? I've heard of people having problems with no video after the startup screen, but I can't even get the startup screen to show up, I only get black. If I reboot it, it shows me the "Windows did not start successfully" screen and I've tried Safe Mode and VGA Mode and everything else I could think of any none of them show anything at all after I press enter, just a black screen,
I almost bought a new video card to test out, but I'm glad I didn't since its apparently not that as my old install of XP still seems to work. unfortunately, I really want to do a fresh install since this one is three years old.
Any ideas???
Thanks for your help.