Hey.
I have 2 things which I need help with here.
I recently bought my computer off my friend, who had a illegal copy of Windows Vista Ultimate installed on it which is giving me BSODs.. When I boot up the PC I see that it loads something in the BIOS (It loads fast but I have seen 'Vista Loader 2.1.2' come up) which I want to get rid of as I have purchased a legit copy of Vista Ultimate. I'm guessing the loader is so it emulates a different chipset (Which it does, i'm looking on System Info for Windows right now and it said my BIOS Version is Dell-42302e31 when actually theres a Packard Bell PT890-8237A MOBO inside of here as the PC has been slightly upgraded from the original Packard Bell.) Things I have done since I got the computer are format the hard drive and install a x64 version of Ultimate (My own copy) but then noticed the loader in the BIOS which didnt make me register. So then I downloaded some updater software from Packard Bell which also did nothing. What I want to try now is removing the battery from the MOBO and removing the BIOS. But once i've done this do I need a disk to install the BIOS again such as the one I downloaded from Packard Bell?
My second problem is to do with installing my BFG nVidia 8800GT on the same PC. I tried it last night and turned my PC on but there was no picture. I was using a DVI > VGA converter on the GPU port as my monitor does not support DVI. I currently have a nVidia 8400GS installed in my PC so I left the drivers on here as the 8 series ones are all the same. Everything was working, I could hear the fan on my GPU, my heatsync was running and I could hear my hard drive loading the OS. Anyone got any ideas why it would be doing this?
Thanks
I have 2 things which I need help with here.
I recently bought my computer off my friend, who had a illegal copy of Windows Vista Ultimate installed on it which is giving me BSODs.. When I boot up the PC I see that it loads something in the BIOS (It loads fast but I have seen 'Vista Loader 2.1.2' come up) which I want to get rid of as I have purchased a legit copy of Vista Ultimate. I'm guessing the loader is so it emulates a different chipset (Which it does, i'm looking on System Info for Windows right now and it said my BIOS Version is Dell-42302e31 when actually theres a Packard Bell PT890-8237A MOBO inside of here as the PC has been slightly upgraded from the original Packard Bell.) Things I have done since I got the computer are format the hard drive and install a x64 version of Ultimate (My own copy) but then noticed the loader in the BIOS which didnt make me register. So then I downloaded some updater software from Packard Bell which also did nothing. What I want to try now is removing the battery from the MOBO and removing the BIOS. But once i've done this do I need a disk to install the BIOS again such as the one I downloaded from Packard Bell?
My second problem is to do with installing my BFG nVidia 8800GT on the same PC. I tried it last night and turned my PC on but there was no picture. I was using a DVI > VGA converter on the GPU port as my monitor does not support DVI. I currently have a nVidia 8400GS installed in my PC so I left the drivers on here as the 8 series ones are all the same. Everything was working, I could hear the fan on my GPU, my heatsync was running and I could hear my hard drive loading the OS. Anyone got any ideas why it would be doing this?
Thanks