I have a Hercules 9800 Pro vid card and it's worked very well up until this point. I'll just explain what happened:
The problem started while I was playing a game and the system locked up. We are talking whole system freeze, not just game crashing. I would reboot and try the game again. Things would work fine for a few minutes, then it would happen again. A third time I went back into the game, which as you can guess, locked up a third time. Well, this time the system never recovered. I ended up deducing that my motherboard had crapped out. (tested by throwing in a backup board I had lying around). Well, I bought a new Mobo and proceeded to install windows again. Things went smoothly till I installed the video drivers for my 9800 pro. The screen would go black after the XP splash screen and it would eventually just restart itself. I can get into Safe Mode no problem. I cannot install any video drivers without the system going black after the Splash Screen. The stock drivers that XP loads are fine, but anytime I load any ATI drivers, the black screen comes back. If I unistall the ATI drivers, I can boot into normal mode just fine (just no video drivers installed). I tried using older drivers, modified drivers, and the newest ones. All have the same effect. Anyone know what this problem is or what causes it?
-Short version of story, Video card works while no drivers are installed. When drivers are installed, I get a back screen after the XP splash screen.
Any suggestions would be great! Thanks!
System Specs:
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ @2200
Asus A7N8X-E deluxe (previous board that died:A7N8X Deluxe)
Hercules 9800 Pro 128 (currently using Geforce4 Ti4200)
NEC 2500a dvd-rw
Asus 16x dvd-rom
1 gig Samsung PC3500
2x120gig Western Digital HDD
The problem started while I was playing a game and the system locked up. We are talking whole system freeze, not just game crashing. I would reboot and try the game again. Things would work fine for a few minutes, then it would happen again. A third time I went back into the game, which as you can guess, locked up a third time. Well, this time the system never recovered. I ended up deducing that my motherboard had crapped out. (tested by throwing in a backup board I had lying around). Well, I bought a new Mobo and proceeded to install windows again. Things went smoothly till I installed the video drivers for my 9800 pro. The screen would go black after the XP splash screen and it would eventually just restart itself. I can get into Safe Mode no problem. I cannot install any video drivers without the system going black after the Splash Screen. The stock drivers that XP loads are fine, but anytime I load any ATI drivers, the black screen comes back. If I unistall the ATI drivers, I can boot into normal mode just fine (just no video drivers installed). I tried using older drivers, modified drivers, and the newest ones. All have the same effect. Anyone know what this problem is or what causes it?
-Short version of story, Video card works while no drivers are installed. When drivers are installed, I get a back screen after the XP splash screen.
Any suggestions would be great! Thanks!
System Specs:
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ @2200
Asus A7N8X-E deluxe (previous board that died:A7N8X Deluxe)
Hercules 9800 Pro 128 (currently using Geforce4 Ti4200)
NEC 2500a dvd-rw
Asus 16x dvd-rom
1 gig Samsung PC3500
2x120gig Western Digital HDD