• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

tons of problems

S

stringcheeseincident

Gawd
Joined
Aug 7, 2003
Messages
807
i'm running a sapphire radeon 9600 nonpro on winxp. my computer was running fine but i like to restart it every once in a while, so i restarted it and that's when all the problems occured. once windows loaded back up, my screen resolution was a 800x600, not what i usually use. i tried to set it back to the original size, but i realized my video card was not recognized and everything was loading slow as hell. so i uninstalled all the ati stuff on my computer...drivers, programs, etc and rebooted. once it loaded again i downloaded the new drivers off the sapphire site and tried to install those. i got an error that something was being used and i should disable it. i restarted again, and now after the xp loading screen when i boot, i get a blank screen. i took the card out of my agp slot and even tried it with the onboard video on my motherboard (shuttle mn31n). i've been wanting to reinstall windows for a while to speed things up, so i really just need to be able to get back into windows. i have another harddrive i can copy things to for backup. is there any way i can get back into windows?
 
You tried this 9600np in another system? Did the onboard video work or not?
 
the 9600np worked flawlessly for me for around 6 months...if it was bad, wouldn't i get consistant problems...not just one big mess up when i restarted? the onboard video works to the same extent as the 9600np. i can see the computer boot, but once the windows loading screen goes away, the screen stays blank.
 
boot into windows safe mode and re install the drivers... make sure you have nothing runing in the background also.

let me know if this works, i am willing to help any way i can.
 
do you see your bios screen when it counts memory and all of that ? if so, start pressing f8 soon as its done counting memory, the safe mode command list will pop up before any drivers are loaded.
 
icthus13 said:
Formattin' time.
Click to expand...
I agree that it sounds like an issue with Windows. If even the safe mode doesn't work, then it seems pretty serious.

You don't have to format immediately, though. First try installing on top of the existing installation.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top