So.... I'm having computer problems. And I'm totally stressed out and not thinking right. I can't think of the solution.

XP... was working fine Sunday night, monday morning I goto use it and it's locked up. Ok, reset it. Windows won't boot. Goes through the Windows XP splash screen, then just before it would get to the background, it just stops and the monitor goes to sleep.

Safe mode works fine. Plus I had just installed a new vid driver on saturday, so that's the first thing I started messing with was reinstalling the vid driver... installing an old version... nothing.

Plus my keyboard died all of a sudden too. Dunno how that happened. When I first noticed the pc was locked up I did a reset, keyboard was working fine. Did a reset again and the keyboard died. Switched it with a spare. Working ok now.

Soo... what's something else I should try? Look at?

 

Flash ur CMOS???

Maybe the new bios corrupted something else..

 

BIOS? I didn't do anything with the BIOS.

 

Try an old AGP or PCI vid card to see if you can get it to boot. after the splash screen is where the vid card actually starts its real job.

I had a ATI 9800 pro die on me, (power pin on the molex leading into the video card was blackened)... put in my old geforce2 GTS and it booted fine.

Give a backup vid card a shot.

 

my fault i meant drivers....not bios :doh:

 

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I had a computer at work do kind of what you described, and it was a data acquisition card. Now granted you probably don't have a DAQ card, but check your peripherals.

 

You could completely remove the video drivers and try to run it on the basic 16 color vid. driver. If that works, then try the old driver.

Did you install a vid card or just the driver?

 

I am gonna guess and say video drivers.

 

This vid card has been in and working for months. I upgraded the drivers sat or sun and monday my system won't load windows all the way in normal mode. Safe mode and Linux (what I'm using right now) work just peachy.

 

Probably bad drivers for Windows. I had the same issue a few years back when I upgraded my drivers, just uninstalled the bugger and reinstalled the original drivers and it was all good.